The Employment Change, released by Statistics New Zealand, is a measure of the change in the number of employed people in New Zealand. Generally speaking, a rise in this indicator has positive implications for consumer spending and is stimulative of economic growth. A higher reading is seen as bullish for the New Zealand Dollar (NZD), while a lower reading is seen as bearish.
The typical/expected impact on NZD pairs is High.
Lower numbers than forecast tend to be bullish for xxx/NZD pairs and bearish for NZD/xxx pairs.
| Date | Time | Actual | Consensus |
|---|---|---|---|
| 03 February 2026 | 21:45 | 0.5% | 0.3% |
| 04 November 2025 | 21:45 | 0% | 0.1% |
| 05 August 2025 | 22:45 | -0.1% | -0.1% |
| 06 May 2025 | 22:45 | 0.1% | 0.1% |
| 04 February 2025 | 21:45 | -0.1% | -0.2% |
| 05 November 2024 | 21:45 | -0.5% | -0.4% |
| 06 August 2024 | 22:45 | 0.4% | -0.2% |
| 30 April 2024 | 22:45 | -0.2% | 0.3% |
| 06 February 2024 | 21:45 | 0.4% | 0.3% |
| 31 October 2023 | 21:45 | -0.2% | 0.4% |
| 01 August 2023 | 22:45 | 1% | 0.5% |
| 02 May 2023 | 22:45 | 0.8% | 0.4% |
| 31 January 2023 | 21:45 | 0.2% | 0.3% |
| 01 November 2022 | 21:45 | 1.3% | 0.5% |
| 02 August 2022 | 22:45 | 0% | 0.4% |
| 03 May 2022 | 22:45 | 0.1% | 0.1% |
| 01 February 2022 | 21:45 | 0.1% | 0.3% |
| 02 November 2021 | 21:45 | 2% | 0.4% |
| 03 August 2021 | 22:45 | 1% | 0.7% |
| 04 May 2021 | 22:45 | 0.6% | 0.2% |