Australia: mean weekly earnings of full-time employees 1975-2023

As of August 2023, the mean weekly earnings of full-time employees in Australia were 1,885.6 Australian dollars. This is an increase of 62 Australian dollars a week.

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

Characteristic	Mean weekly earnings in Australian dollars
Aug-23	1,885.6
Aug-22	1,823.6
Aug-21	1,768.9
Aug-20	1,681.6
Aug-19	1,660.6
Aug-18	1,607.7
Aug-17	1,552.1
Aug-16	1,505.3
Aug-15	1,481.3
Aug-14	1,467.1
Aug-13	1,390
Aug-12	1,358
Aug-11	1,295.6
Aug-10	1,254.5
Aug-09	1,200.4
Aug-08	1,151.4
Aug-07	1,108
Aug-06	1,027.4
Aug-05	971.9
Aug-04	921.4
Aug-03	829.9
Aug-02	797.5
Aug-01	780
Aug-00	730.7
Aug-99	696.7
Aug-98	661.2
Aug-97	652.4
Aug-95	622.2
Aug-94	606.1
Aug-93	580.9
Aug-92	549.5
Jul-91	533
Aug-90	500.9
Aug-89	476
Aug-88	444
Aug-87	415
Aug-86	392
Aug-85	367
Aug-84	342
Aug-83	318
Aug-82	299
Aug-81	259
Aug-80	233
Aug-79	209
Aug-78	195
Aug-77	178
Aug-76	161
Aug-75	141

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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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