Australia: mean weekly earnings of employees by educational qualification 2023

As of 2023, the mean weekly earnings of employees in Australia with a postgraduate degree were roughly 1,893 Australian dollars. Comparatively, the mean weekly earnings of people without non-school qualifications were less than 1000 Australian dollars.

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

Characteristic	Mean weekly earnings in Australian dollars
Postgraduate degree	1,893.4
Graduate diploma/Graduate certificate	1,726
Bachelor degree or higher	1,672.2
Bachelor degree	1,578
Advanced diploma/Diploma	1,300
Certificate III/IV	1,342
Other	1,173.8
Total - with non-school qualifications	1,500
Without non-school qualifications	988

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Release date

December 2023

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Region

Australia

Survey time period

Aug 2023

Age group

15 years and older

Supplementary notes

Other includes: "Certificate I/II", "Certificate not further defined", and "Level not determined".

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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