Comments on: Median Wage in Australia

By: Sagasu

Sagasu — Mon, 09 May 2011 15:54:10 +0000

Great post and great work with all the figures. Gives a much better perspective on income in Australia than the oft quoted ‘average’ wage.

By: ABCDiamond

ABCDiamond — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 06:07:42 +0000

Gloopy.

Current figures show:

83.8% of Male Workers are Full time employed
54.7% of Female Workers are Full time employed

December 2010 actual numbers:

Total employed
6,321,900 Males
5,233,300 Females

Full-time employment
5,295,100 Males
2,863,500 Females

You may find the information at Full Time v Part Time Employment in Australia provides you with more data on this subject.

By: Gloopy

Gloopy — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 04:28:17 +0000

And what percentage of Australians are employed full time V part time/casual?

By: ABCDiamond

ABCDiamond — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 11:11:43 +0000

Median Household Income from Australian Median Household Income

1995 $57,405
1996 $56,647
1997 $58,177
1998 $59,934
1999
2000 $63,239
2001 $61,676
2002
2003 $63,508
2004 $67,934
2005
2006 $73,842
2007
2008 $85,761
2009
2010
2011

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 04:26:10 +0000

Do you have a household Income number (Median Household Incomes 200 V’s 2009 /10?)
Like Shmorky it had been difficult to find a conversion from Avg – Median.
They say you should not pay more than 4 times income for a house but then people just add 2 average wages & think the house hold income is that ($50K x 2 =$100K household income) but I know this is not right & would appreciate it if you had these numbers?

Great data though helped me win many a argument about wages keep it up!!

By: Shmorky

Shmorky — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 08:48:10 +0000

Hi. Thanks for this. Average incomes are quoted a lot lately in relation to housing affordability, and I was wondering if the median might give a better picture of how the average Australian is really going, but couldn’t locate any stats.

By: admin

admin — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 08:10:23 +0000

Nothing yet available for 2010, but the latest official information is for November 2009, issued on 25th February 2010.

The Trend Estimates of ‘average’ Adult wages are:

$63,611 ($1,223 per week) Full-time ordinary time earnings
$66,071 ($1,271 per week) Full-time total earnings
$71,656 ($1,378 per week) Male Full Time Total Earnings
$56,992 ($1,096 per week) Female Full Time Total Earnings

(These figures are before the addition of the 9% Super)

I would estimate the median Adult wages to be about:

$54,069 ($1,040 per week) Full-time ordinary time earnings
$56,160 ($1,080 per week) Full-time total earnings
$60,908 ($1,171 per week) Male Full Time Total Earnings
$48,443 ($ 932 per week) Female Full Time Total Earnings

By: Jessica

Jessica — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 07:02:24 +0000

how about this year ? like average wage in 2010

By: admin

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:51:00 +0000

In 1986 the ‘average’ weekly wages were:
Full time
$423.70 Male
$333.50 Female
$398.10 All

All Employees, Full and Part time average
$389.50 Male
$255.10 Female
$335.40 All

Source: ABS
http://www.ausstats.abs.gov.au/ausstats/free.nsf/0/B0E788EAD7591E6ECA2574FF001962A2/$File/63020_FEB1986.pdf

If we assumed that a “family” consisted of one full time male and one part time female at 50%, then the average household income would be $551.250 per week.

If we then take my 85%, to calculate the median, we get $468.56 per week median household income.
Which is actually very close to the actual 1984 median figure of $480 from the 1985 newspaper.

At one male full time, plus one female part time working at 55% of full time, the figures would be equal at $480 per week.

By: James

James — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:00:22 +0000

Can you calculate the median Australian wage prior to 1996 ?

The only other data point I have is the median Australian family income in 1983 was $23,088 ($444 X 52), and in 1984 was $24,960 ($480 X 52).

My source is from the Age (28 May 1985):
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FgsUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=VpUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5342,7118709&dq=sydney+median+house+price+history&hl=en