Key information about Australia Monthly Earnings

• Australia Monthly Earnings stood at 4,026 USD in Nov 2024, compared with the previous figure of 3,903 USD in May 2024
• Australia Monthly Earnings data is updated semiannually, available from May 2012 to Nov 2024, with an average number of 3,740 USD
• The data reached the an all-time high of 4,560 USD in May 2013 and a record low of 3,344 USD in Nov 2015

CEIC calculates Monthly Earnings from Average Weekly Earnings multiplied by 4 and converts it into USD. The Australian Bureau of Statistics provides Average Weekly Earnings in local currency. Federal Reserve Board average market exchange rate is used for currency conversions. Monthly Earnings are in biannual frequency, ending in May and November of each year.


Further information about Australia Monthly Earnings

• In the latest reports, Australia Population reached 27 million people in Dec 2023
• Unemployment Rate of Australia increased to 4 % in Jan 2025
• The country's Labour Force Participation Rate dropped to 67 % in Jan 2025

As of the first half of 2023, Australia had the highest net salaries in the Asia-Pacific region at an average ***** U.S. dollars per month. In contrast, the average monthly net salary in Pakistan amounted to *** U.S. dollars per month in the same period.

Wages in Australia increased to 1542.30 AUD/Week in the second quarter of 2025 from 1510.90 AUD/Week in the fourth quarter of 2024. This dataset provides - Australia Average Weekly Wages - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

In 2024, the average annual wage in Australia had reached ******* Australian dollars. Since 2000, the average wage in Australia has increased by around ****** Australian dollars. Since 2018, the average wage in Australia has remained fairly stagnant.

Updated data for the Australian Government’s Income Management (IM) program will be available on the third Thursday of every month. The data summary will include: \r \r Table 1. Number of IM participants by location and measure \r \r 1.1 Northern Territory\r \r 1.2 Western Australia\r \r 1.3 Queensland \r \r 1.4 South Australia\r \r 1.5 Victoria \r \r 1.6 New South Wales\r \r \r Table 2. Number of IM participants with an active BasicsCard by State/Territory \r \r Table 3. Number of IM exemptions by Indigenous Indicator \r \r The data provided will be the last weekly data update for the previous month. \r \r Legislation \r \r Legislation for IM is located here in the Social Security (Administration) Act 1999.\r \r The Guide to Social Policy Law for IM is located here.\r \r \r Information about IM \r \r More information about Income Management is located here on the Department of Human Services web site.\r \r \r Locations\r \r The places that have IM, by State and Territory, is located here on the Department of Human Services web site. \r \r \r Data Confidentialisation Policy \r \r Table cells are suppressed where the count refers to less than five, but more than zero, people. The method is: \r \r * Cells with counts between one (1) and four (4) are presented as <5. \r * Cells with counts between one (1) and four (4) are presented as <5.\r * Cells with a count of zero (0) are not suppressed. \r * Where suppression has been applied and it is still possible to derive the cell value from other information in the table, the total/s or the next lowest aggregate cells are suppressed and presented with ‘n.p.’ (not provided). \r \r Data Caveats\r \r 1. Any variance from data reported prior to 28 August 2015 is due to a change to conform to the Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS). \r 2. Inconsistencies may be attributed to participants moving from the location where they were originally triggered onto the program. \r 3. Participants with ‘Unknown’ locations did not have a recorded address at the time of data extraction. This often occurs because a participant is in the process of moving address. \r 4. ‘Uncategorised CIM’ customers are instances where a customer was assessed for Income Management but was never switched ON and assigned a Category Code. \r 5. ‘Greater Brisbane’ includes ‘Logan’. \r 6. ‘Far North’ includes ‘Cape York’. \r 7. For ‘Current Income Management Exemptions by Indigenous Indicator’, automatic exemptions for <25% of Max Payment is not included.

LGA based data for Weekly Household Income by Monthly Housing Loan Repayment, in Basic Community Profile, 1996 Census. Count of occupied private dwellings which are being purchased. The data is by LGA 1996 boundaries. Periodicity: 5-Yearly. This data is ABS data (geographic boundary cat. no. 1261.0.30.001 & census dictionary cat. no. 2901.0) used with permission from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. For more information visit the ABS .

Wages in Australia increased 3.40 percent in June of 2025 over the same month in the previous year. This dataset provides - Australia Wage Growth- actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

Census Collection District (CCD) based data for Weekly Household Income by Monthly Housing Loan Repayment, in Basic Community Profile, 1996 Census. Count of occupied private dwellings which are being purchased. The data is by CCD 1996 boundaries. Periodicity: 5-Yearly. This data is ABS data (geographic boundary cat. no. 1261.0.30.001 & census dictionary cat. no. 2901.0) used with permission from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. For more information visit the ABS .

Disposable Personal Income in Australia increased to 424884 AUD Million in the first quarter of 2025 from 415014 AUD Million in the fourth quarter of 2024. This dataset provides - Australia Disposable Personal Income - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

The 1991 Census Expanded Community Profiles present 44 tables comprising more detailed information than that of the basic community profiles which provide characteristics of persons and/or dwellings for Local Government Areas (LGA) in Australia. This table contains data relating to annual household income by monthly housing loan repayment. Counts are of occupied private dwellings which are being purchased (excludes caravans etc in caravan parks and not classifiable households), based on place of enumeration on census night which; includes overseas visitors; excludes Australians overseas; and excludes adjustment for under-enumeration. The data is by LGA 1991 boundaries. Periodicity: 5-Yearly. This data is ABS data (cat. no. 2101.0 & original geographic boundary cat. no. 1261.0.30.001) used with permission from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The tabular data was processed and supplied to AURIN by the Australian Data Archives. The cleaned, high resolution 1991 geographic boundaries are available from data.gov.au. For more information please refer to the 1991 Census Dictionary. Please note: (a) Not classifiable households are those dwellings which were temporarily unoccupied at the time of the census, but the collector had ascertained that it was normally occupied or the household contained only persons under 15 years of age.

The 1991 Census Basic Community profiles present 57 tables containing summary characteristics of persons and/or dwellings for Local Government Areas (LGA) in Australia. This table contains data relating to annual household income by monthly housing loan repayment. Counts are of occupied private dwellings which are being purchased (excludes caravans etc in caravan parks and not classifiable households(a)), based on place of enumeration on census night which; includes overseas visitors; excludes Australians overseas; and excludes adjustment for under-enumeration. The data is by LGA 1991 boundaries. Periodicity: 5-Yearly. This data is ABS data (cat. no. 2101.0 & original geographic boundary cat. no. 1261.0.30.001) used with permission from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The tabular data was processed and supplied to AURIN by the Australian Data Archives. The cleaned, high resolution 1991 geographic boundaries are available from data.gov.au. For more information please refer to the 1991 Census Dictionary. Please note:

(a) Not classifiable households are those dwellings which were temporarily unoccupied at the time of the census, butthe collector had ascertained that it was normally occupied, or the household contained only persons aged under 15years.

(b) Comprises households where at least one, but not all, member(s) aged 15 years or more did not state an incomeand/or at least one spouse, offspring, or co-tenant was temporarily absent.

(c) Comprises households where no members present stated an income.

The "Expanded Jobseeker Payment and Youth Allowance - monthly profile" publication has introduced expanded reporting populations for income support recipients. As a result, the reporting population for Jobseeker Payment has changed to include recipients who are current but on zero rate of payment and those who are suspended from payment. The reporting population for Youth Allowance has changed to include those who are suspended from payment. The expanded report will replace the standard report after June 2023.

Additional data for JobSeeker Payment and Youth Allowance (other) recipients in the monthly profile includes:

• A monthly time series by rate of payment, providing details of recipients who are current on payment and in receipt of a full, part or zero rate of payment, and those who are suspended from payment (table 2)

• By work capacity status, showing those who have a partial capacity to work and those who have full capacity (table 7)

• By payment duration (table 8)

The “JobSeeker Payment and Youth Allowance recipients – monthly profile” is a monthly report, covering the Income Support payments of JobSeeker Payment and Youth Allowance (other). It also includes data on Youth Allowance (student and apprentice), Sickness Allowance and Bereavement Allowance. The report includes payment recipient numbers by demographics such as age, gender, state, earnings and Statistical Area Level 2.

As of January 2024, the monthly minimum net wage in Australia amounted to approximately ***** U.S. dollars. Comparatively, the monthly minimum net wage in Pakistan amounted to approximately *** U.S. dollars as of January 2024.

The “DSS Income Support Recipient – Monthly Time Series” publication is a monthly report, covering the Income Support payments of Age Pension, Disability Support Payment, ABSTUDY (Living Allowance), Austudy, Carer Payment, JobSeeker Payment, Special Benefit, Parenting Payment Partnered, Parenting Payment Single, Youth Allowance Other and Youth Allowance Student and Apprentice.\r The report includes payment recipient numbers by demographics such as age, gender, state, earnings, rate and marital status.

Minimum Wages in Australia increased to 948 AUD/week in 2025 from 915.90 AUD/week in 2024. This dataset provides - Australia Minimum Wages - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

Census Collection District (CCD) based data for Weekly Household Income by Monthly Housing Loan Repayment, in Basic Community Profile, 1996 Census. Count of occupied private dwellings which are …Show full descriptionCensus Collection District (CCD) based data for Weekly Household Income by Monthly Housing Loan Repayment, in Basic Community Profile, 1996 Census. Count of occupied private dwellings which are being purchased. The data is by CCD 1996 boundaries. Periodicity: 5-Yearly. This data is ABS data (geographic boundary cat. no. 1261.0.30.001 & census dictionary cat. no. 2901.0) used with permission from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. For more information visit the ABS . Copyright attribution: Government of the Commonwealth of Australia - Australian Bureau of Statistics, (2000): ; accessed from AURIN on 12/3/2020. Licence type: Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia (CC BY 2.5 AU)

In financial year 2020, over 460 thousand households in Australia had a gross weekly household income of 6,000 Australian dollars or more. On the other end of the spectrum, over 30,000 households had a negative income and around over 32,000 had no income.

This statistic shows the countries with the highest average monthly wages in the Asia-Pacific region as of 2013 or latest available year. In 2013, the average monthly income in Australia had amounted to about ***** U.S. dollars.

This report analyses mortgage affordability in Australia, which is measured as the proportion of a household's monthly income that remains after making their mortgage repayment. This is calculated based on the average monthly repayments for a standard 25-year mortgage on the mean house price less a deposit in Australia. An increase in the percentage indicates an improvement in the affordability of the average mortgage. The data for this report is sourced from the Australian Bureau of Statistics and is measured as a percentage of average household income.

This statistic illustrates the average wage per month in select countries in 2017 and with a projection to 2040. In 2040, it is estimated that the average monthly wage in the United States will be ***** U.S. dollars, an increase from ***** U.S. dollars in 2017.