Australia: mean weekly earnings of employees by state or territory 2023

As of August 2023, the Australian Capital Territory had the highest mean weekly earnings of employees, with 1729.4 Australian dollars per week. Tasmania had the lowest mean weekly earnings, at 1358.7 Australian dollars per week.

Mean weekly earnings of employees in Australia in August 2023, by state or territory (in Australian dollars)

Characteristic	Mean weekly earnings in Australian dollars
Australian Capital Territory	1,729.4
Western Australia	1,635.9
Northern Territory	1,594.6
New South Wales	1,571.9
Victoria	1,515.3
Queensland	1,508.6
South Australia	1,382.7
Tasmania	1,358.7

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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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