Australia: mean weekly earnings of employees 1975-2023

As of August 2023, the mean weekly earnings of employees in Australia were 1,537.50 Australian dollars. Since August 1975, the mean weekly earnings of employees in Australia have increased more than ten-fold.

Mean weekly earnings of employees in Australia from August 1975 to August 2023 (in Australian dollars)

Characteristic	Mean weekly earnings in Australian dollars
Aug-23	1,537.5
Aug-22	1,482.5
Aug-21	1,429.1
Aug-20	1,366
Aug-19	1,332.7
Aug-18	1,284.4
Aug-17	1,240.8
Aug-16	1,199.5
Aug-15	1,186.7
Aug-14	1,174.5
Aug-13	1,114.8
Aug-12	1,093
Aug-11	1,041.4
Aug-10	1,011.7
Aug-09	965.8
Aug-08	935.2
Aug-07	898
Aug-06	832.6
Aug-05	789.4
Aug-04	748.3
Aug-03	671.5
Aug-02	655.2
Aug-01	642.5
Aug-00	606.4
Aug-99	580.6
Aug-98	550.4
Aug-97	546.7
Aug-95	527.6
Aug-94	515.6
Aug-93	499
Aug-92	471.2
Jul-91	461
Aug-90	438.9
Aug-89	416.1
Aug-88	391
Aug-87	368
Aug-86	350
Aug-85	329
Aug-84	308
Aug-83	288
Aug-82	271
Aug-81	236
Aug-80	212
Aug-79	192
Aug-78	179
Aug-77	163
Aug-76	149
Aug-75	131

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Release date

December 2023

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Region

Australia

Survey time period

Aug 1975 to Aug 2023

Age group

15 years and older

Supplementary notes

The Characteristics of Employment survey excluded the following: Members of the permanent defence forces, certain diplomatic personnel of overseas governments, overseas residents in Australia, members of non-Australian defence forces (and their dependants) stationed in Australia, students at boarding schools, patients in hospitals, residents of homes (e.g. retirement homes, homes for people with disabilities), inmates of prisons, people living in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, contributing family workers, people not in the labour force, and unemployed people.

No data available for 1996.

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