Source: Statistics New Zealand
Employment indicators: December 2025 – information release
28 January 2026
Employment indicators provide an early indication of changes in the labour market.
Key facts
Changes in the seasonally adjusted filled jobs for the December 2025 month (compared with the November 2025 month) were:
- all industries – flat (down 709 jobs) at 2.35 million filled jobs
- primary industries – down 0.2 percent (261 jobs)
- goods-producing industries – down 0.1 percent (433 jobs)
- service industries – flat (up 674 jobs).
