Employment in South Africa increased by 93 000 between June and September on a quarter-on-quarter basis, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) said on Monday.
This reflected a net quarterly increase of one% between June and September, following a revised decrease of 96 000 employees between March and June.
Stats SA released the Quarterly Employment Statistics (QES) for the third quarter of 2016 on Monday.
The QES survey collects information from nonagricultural businesses and organisations from approximately 20 000 units.
Stats SA said the third quarter had an estimated 9.28-million jobs in formal nonagricultural sector of the economy, up from 9.19-million.
There was an annual increase of 80 000 employees year-on-year.
Stats SA said increases in employment were led by the community services industry with 78 000 employees, the trade industry with 7 000 employees, construction and business services industry with 6 000 employees, and the mining industry with 2 000 employees.
But there were decreases in employment reported by manufacturing and transport industries with 3 000 employees each, or less than one% each.
The electricity industry remained unchanged for the quarter.
The total earnings paid to employees amounted to R543-billion in September, a quarterly increase of R20-billion or 3.9%.
On an annual basis, Stats SA said average monthly earnings paid to employees increased by 4.4% from R17 344 in August 2015 to R18 104 in August this year.