{"id":438705,"date":"2026-09-24T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T02:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/australian-jobs-data-for-august-2026-unemployment-rate-4-6-expected-4-5-prior-4-5-438705\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T09:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T02:00:08","slug":"australian-jobs-data-for-august-2026-unemployment-rate-4-6-expected-4-5-prior-4-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/australian-jobs-data-for-august-2026-unemployment-rate-4-6-expected-4-5-prior-4-5-438705\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian jobs data for August 2026. Unemployment rate 4.6% (expected 4.5%, prior 4.5%)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Australian Employment Change 39.5K<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>expected 20K, prior -15.8K<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Full Time Employment Change -6.3K<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>prior 6.3K<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Part-Time 45.8K <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>prior -32.2K<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Participation Rate 67.1%<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>expected 66.9%, prior 66.9%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Background:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/investinglive.com\/news\/australia-jobs-preview-nab-leans-to-4-4-unemployment-on-20k-gain-in-a-close-call\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow\">Australia jobs preview: NAB leans to 4.4% unemployment on 20k gain in a close call<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_self\" class=\"article-link\" href=\"https:\/\/investinglive.com\/news\/australia-jobs-preview-cba-sees-15-000-gain-unemployment-steady-at-4-5\/\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-language-override: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0; color: rgba(140, 77, 223, 1); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s\" rel=\"follow\">Australia jobs preview: CBA sees 15,000 gain, unemployment steady at 4.5%<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_self\" class=\"article-link\" href=\"https:\/\/investinglive.com\/news\/australia-jobs-preview-employment-seen-rebounding-in-august-jobless-rate-at-4-5\/\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-language-override: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0; color: rgba(140, 77, 223, 1); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.3s\" rel=\"follow\">Australia jobs preview: employment seen rebounding in August, jobless rate at 4.5%<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"box-sizing: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-weight: 400; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-language-override: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border: 0; margin: 0 0 20px; padding: 0 0 0 19px; font-family: Inter, InterFallback, serif; list-style: outside; text-indent: -3px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0; white-space: normal; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-size: 16px\"><\/ul>\n<p>                            This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Employment Change 39.5K expected 20K, prior -15.8K Full Time Employment Change -6.3K prior 6.3K Part-Time 45.8K prior -32.2K Participation Rate 67.1% expected 66.9%, prior 66.9% &#8212; Background: Australia jobs preview: NAB&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}