Employment figures confusing

Parramatta City Council's website states employment in the city centre is "approximately 55,000 today" yet a graph, sourced from the Department of Planning, shows the figure in 2007 was 39,000. The document states that at the current growth rate the number of jobs in the city centre “will reach 50,000 by 2011”.

This figure is repeated in the Parramatta City Centre Plan, approved in December by the Minister for Planning. The document says that at the current growth rate, the city centre "will reach 50,000 jobs by 2011". By council’s calculations, the working population of the city centre has already exceeded that figure.