The number of people with full-time jobs went up by 3.6 per cent between July 2013 and July 2014, reaching 164,868.
The increase was the result of two factors: more people working and fewer registering as unemployed.
The National StatisticsOffice (NSO) reported that most of the increase in jobs came from the category comprising professional, scientific and technical activities.
Private sector full-time employment went up by 3.2 per cent to 120,762 while public sector employment went up by 4.6 per cent to 44,106, with 880 employees in the transport category.
Although the NSO did not refer to this in its commentary, the government said in a separate statement that 725 Arriva employees had been temporarily switched from the private sector to the public sector when the company gave up its public transport operations.
Of the 5,803 new jobs, there was a positive shift in the number of self-employed, which went up by 429.
This was the result of people being given more incentives to work, and abuse being targeted
The female group also shot up by 5.5 per cent, compared to that of men which rose by only 2.6 per cent. The female participation rate has been growing steadily, with free child care being offered since April 2014 as an incentive to women to return to the workplace.
There were 61,686 part-timers, up from 58,288 in July 2013. Of these, 25,014 part-timers also held a full-time job,
In the meantime, the registered unemployed fell by 464 to 6,834. Finance Minister Edward Scicluna recently said in an interview that this was the result of people being given more incentives to work and abuse being targeted.
Taking both those in employment and those registering as unemployed, the labour supply stood at 171,702, up from 166,363 in July 2013.
In a separate statement issued by the Department of Information, the government said that unemployment was now at its lowest level historically, with a net increase of 13 full-time jobs in the private sector every day since the March 2013 general election. This represented an increase of 6,869 jobs created between then and July 2014, a six per cent rise.
It noted that without the shift of Arriva employees, the increase in private sector jobs would have been 7,600.