About the AI Jobs Index

The AI Jobs Index is Australia's monthly tracker of two numbers: how much new AI-related hiring is happening, and how many publicly announced Australian job losses are being attributed to AI. The headline figure is the net of the two.

It is a real-time overlay on official Australian labour statistics. It does not replace the ABS Labour Force Survey or Jobs and Skills Australia. It sits alongside them, and cites them explicitly. The job is to compress weeks of media monitoring, job-board scraping, and classification into five named metrics policymakers, journalists, and industry can actually cite.

The methodology is published in full, with version history and known limitations. If it is not in the methodology document, it is not part of the index.

AI is reshaping Australian employment on two fronts simultaneously. New AI-specialist roles are being created faster than the local market can fill them. And existing roles, particularly in customer service, content production, and back-office administration, are being quietly restructured or cut.

Neither story is fully visible in any single existing dataset. Job-ad indices capture creation well but ignore displacement. Layoff trackers exist in the US (Challenger, Gray & Christmas) but not here. JSA publishes deep capacity studies annually, not monthly. Media coverage is episodic.

Australia needs one place where both sides are measured on the same fixed cadence, with published methodology, for ongoing reference. That is what this is.

The index data is free to cite. The monthly headline figure (NAIJI) is released on the second Thursday of each month, one day after the ABS Labour Force release. Quarterly deep-dives cover industry, regional, and company-size cuts.

Preferred citation: “AI Jobs Index Australia, [month] [year].” Include a link to /methodology so readers can see how the figures are produced.

For comment, custom cuts of the data, or speaking requests, contact James directly.