Australia: mean weekly earnings of employees by industry 2023

As of 2023, the mean weekly earnings of employees in Australia working in the mining industry were close to 2.4 thousand Australian dollars. Comparatively, the mean weekly earnings of people working in the accommodation and food services industry were 650 Australian dollars.

Mean weekly earnings of employees in Australia in August 2023, by industry (in Australian dollars)

Characteristic	Mean weekly earnings in Australian dollars
Mining	2,403.4
Electricity, gas, water, and waste services	1,900
Financial and insurance services	1,750
Professional, scientific, and technical services	1,726
Public administration and safety	1,650
Information media and telecommunications	1,630
Construction	1,473.1
Transport, postal, and warehousing	1,400.5
Manufacturing	1,400
Wholesale trade	1,346
Education and training	1,342.5
Rental, hiring, and real estate services	1,250
Health care and social assistance	1,248
Other services	1,103.9
Administrative and support services	1,100
Agriculture, forestry, and fishing	1,099
Arts and recreation services	915.3
Retail trade	875
Accommodation and food services	650

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Release date

December 2023

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Region

Australia

Survey time period

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.

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