2022 Labour So Far. Perhaps unsurprisingly, skills shortages across almost every level (and in every discipline) will continue to create ongoing labour supply issues for at least the majority of 2022 in New Zealand. As such, businesses must continue to look at their retention strategies (see page 2). The more extreme labour shortages lie in...

Seeing Out 2021 Our Annual Salary Data for 2022 will be released in late January, so this Quarterly Report provides a taster of some of the key themes. With inflation a hot topic in this current climate, we thought it useful to provide a snapshot of average salaries supported by the inflation rate we have...

Immigration, Covid & Employment It’s quite easy to overlook the value that skilled migrants entering New Zealand offer our local labour market. Without immigrating Brits, South Africans, Americans, Asian and Europeans the labour pool has contracted across every discipline, from farming and healthcare to accounting and technology. As Australian borders reopen and the UK slowly...

Business Response: Covid 19 Figures show that, out of all industries, Manufacturing has been the most reliant on the government wage subsidy and reducing salaries to 80%. Outside of FMCG, most businesses in this space experienced a full shutdown of their production, combined with service contracts being significantly affected for those trading internationally. Many non-FMCG...

Canterbury Female/Male Job Split The ratio and historic pattern of gender split across Canterbury has shown little change over recent years with Female commanding a significant higher population share of administrative and support roles and Males having significantly higher representation in leadership roles. The one positive and promising shift is the increasing volume of Female...