Business Employment Data: September 2025 Quarter
Business employment data includes filled jobs and gross earnings, with breakdowns by industry, sex, age, region, and territorial authority area, using a combination of data from two different Inland Revenue sources: the employer monthly schedule (EMS) and payday filing. Both are associated with PAYE (pay as you earn) tax data.
Gross earnings data for Business employment data: September 2025 quarter has not been released due to issues identified during data preparation. We will publish the gross earnings data as soon as it is ready and will send a subscriber update once it is released.
Data for filled jobs is available as expected, although it may be subject to very minor updates in future.
Key facts
In the September 2025 quarter:
- total actual filled jobs were 2.23 million
- total seasonally adjusted filled jobs were flat (up 938 jobs) compared with the June 2025 quarter.
Visit our website to read this information release and to download CSV files:
- Business employment data: September 2025 quarter: https://www.stats.govt.nz/information-releases/business-employment-data-september-2025-quarter/
- CSV files for download: https://www.stats.govt.nz/large-datasets/csv-files-for-download/
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