Key information about Australia Household Income per Capita

• Australia Annual Household Income per Capita reached 30,914.027 USD in Jun 2020, compared with the previous value of 34,767.371 USD in Jun 2018.
• Australia Annual Household Income per Capita data is updated yearly, available from Jun 1995 to Jun 2020, with an averaged value of 25,207.153 USD.
• The data reached an all-time high of 43,819.349 USD in Jun 2012 and a record low of 15,753.318 USD in Jun 2001.
• In the latest reports, Retail Sales of Australia grew 4.217 % YoY in May 2023.

CEIC calculates Annual Household Income per Capita from annual Weekly Average Household Income multiplied by 52, annual Number of Household and quarterly Total Population and converts it into USD. The Australian Bureau of Statistics provides Average Household Income in local currency, Number of Household and Total Population. Federal Reserve Board average market exchange rate is used for currency conversions. Household Income per Capita is in annual frequency, ending in June of each year. Household Income per Capita prior to 2008 based on 2017-2018 price.

In G20 countries, the share of the population that earned at least the equivalent of the highest 10 percent of global income earners as of 2022 in purchasing power parity (PPP) terms varies from over two thirds in Australia to only *** percent in Indonesia. The United States recorded the second-highest upper-class share of the G20 countries. However, looking at for instance China, approximately ** percent of the population counts as middle class or above, whereas just ***** percent counts as upper class or higher.

Australia Weekly Gross Income: 2013-14p: Median: One Family: Other data was reported at 2,114.954 AUD in 2014. Australia Weekly Gross Income: 2013-14p: Median: One Family: Other data is updated yearly, averaging 2,114.954 AUD from Jun 2014 (Median) to 2014, with 1 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 2,114.954 AUD in 2014 and a record low of 2,114.954 AUD in 2014. Australia Weekly Gross Income: 2013-14p: Median: One Family: Other data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Australian Bureau of Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Australia – Table AU.H031: Survey of Income and Housing: Gross Household Income: by Family Composition.

Australia Weekly Gross Income: 2011-12p: Median: One Family: Other data was reported at 2,050.000 AUD in 2012. This records an increase from the previous number of 1,780.000 AUD for 2010. Australia Weekly Gross Income: 2011-12p: Median: One Family: Other data is updated yearly, averaging 1,594.000 AUD from Jun 2001 (Median) to 2012, with 7 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 2,050.000 AUD in 2012 and a record low of 1,261.000 AUD in 2004. Australia Weekly Gross Income: 2011-12p: Median: One Family: Other data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Australian Bureau of Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Australia – Table AU.H031: Survey of Income and Housing: Gross Household Income: by Family Composition.

As of August 2023, the median hourly earnings of employees in Australia were 39.5 Australian dollars. Since August 2000, the median hourly earnings of employees in Australia have increased by over 23 Australian dollars.

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.

Australia Household Income: Gross Disposable Income data was reported at 421,840.000 AUD mn in Dec 2024. This records a decrease from the previous number of 435,293.000 AUD mn for Sep 2024. Australia Household Income: Gross Disposable Income data is updated quarterly, averaging 72,770.500 AUD mn from Sep 1959 (Median) to Dec 2024, with 262 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 435,293.000 AUD mn in Sep 2024 and a record low of 2,931.000 AUD mn in Jun 1960. Australia Household Income: Gross Disposable Income data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Australian Bureau of Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Australia – Table AU.A287: SNA08: Household Saving Ratio and Household Income.

The minimum wage as a percentage of the median full-time salary of other countries in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development is slowly catching up to that of Australia. Figures show that from 2016 to 2019, the difference was equal to or below three percent between Australia and other OECD member countries. The proportion of minimum wage compared to the median full-time salary of Australia has fallen from 58 percent in 2000 to 54 percent in 2019.

With a median salary of around **** thousand Australian dollars in 2023, female dentistry graduates in Australia received the highest salary of all recent female university leavers. Pharmacy students received the lowest salary in the same year, with female graduates in this field reporting a salary of **** thousand Australian dollars.

Dentistry graduates in Australia received a median salary of approximately 100 thousand Australian dollars, making this profession the highest earning of all study areas in the country in 2022. Despite high employment rates, pharmacy graduates received the lowest median salary at around 52.2 thousand Australian dollars per year.

Australia Weekly Gross Income: 2019-20p: Median: Non Family: Lone Person data was reported at 750,000.000 AUD in 2020. Australia Weekly Gross Income: 2019-20p: Median: Non Family: Lone Person data is updated yearly, averaging 750,000.000 AUD from Jun 2020 (Median) to 2020, with 1 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 750,000.000 AUD in 2020 and a record low of 750,000.000 AUD in 2020. Australia Weekly Gross Income: 2019-20p: Median: Non Family: Lone Person data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Australian Bureau of Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Australia – Table AU.H031: Survey of Income and Housing: Gross Household Income: by Family Composition.

The most common poverty measures, including that used by the OECD, focus on income based approaches. One of the most common measures of income poverty is the proportion of households with income less than half median equivalised disposable household income (which is set as the poverty line); this is a relative income poverty measure as poverty is measured by reference to the income of others rather than in some absolute sense. Australia has one of the highest household disposable incomes in the world, which means that an Australian relative income poverty line is set at a high level of income compared to most other countries.

OECD statistics on Australian poverty 2015-16 (based on ABS Survey of Income and Housing data and applying a poverty line of 50% of median income) determined the Australian poverty rate was over 25% before taxes and transfers, but falls around 12% after taxes and transfers. Though measuring poverty through application of solely an income measure is not considered comprehensive for an Australian context, however, it does demonstrate that the Australian welfare system more than halves the number of Australians that would otherwise be considered as at risk of living in poverty under that measure.
It is important to consider a range of indicators of persistent disadvantage to understand poverty and hardship and its multidimensional nature. Different indicators point to different dimensions of poverty. While transient poverty is a problem, the experience of persistent poverty is of deeper concern, particularly where families experience intergenerational disadvantage and long-term welfare reliance. HILDA data from the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research shows the Distribution of number of years in poverty 2001–2015. The figure focuses on the longer term experience of working age adults and shows that while people do fall into poverty, only a small proportion of people are persistently poor.

This dataset presents the Rental Affordability Index (RAI) for all dwellings. The data uses a single median income value for all of Australia (enabling comparisons across regions), and spans the quarters Q1 2011 to Q2 2021. The RAI covers all states with available data, the Northern Territory does not form part of this dataset. National Shelter, Bendigo Bank, The Brotherhood of St Laurence, and SGS Economics and Planning have released the RentalAffordability Index (RAI) on a biannual basis since 2015. Since 2019, the RAI has been released annually. It is generally accepted that if housing costs exceed 30% of a low-income household's gross income, the household is experiencing housing stress (30/40 rule). That is, housing is unaffordable and housing costs consume a disproportionately high amount of household income. The RAI uses the 30 per cent of income rule. Rental affordability is calculated using the following equation, where 'qualifying income' refers to the household income required to pay rent where rent is equal to 30% of income: RAI = (Median income ∕ Qualifying Income) x 100 In the RAI, households who are paying 30% of income on rent have a score of 100, indicating that these households are at the critical threshold for housing stress. A score of 100 or less indicates that households would pay more than 30% of income to access a rental dwelling, meaning they are at risk of experiencing housing stress. For more information on the Rental Affordability Index please refer to SGS Economics and Planning. The RAI is a price index for housing rental markets. It is a clear and concise indicator of rental affordability relative to household incomes, applied to geographic areas across Australia. AURIN has spatially enabled the original data using geometries provided by SGS Economics and Planning. Values of 'NA' in the original data have been set to NULL.

Australia Weekly Gross Income: 2015-16p: Median data was reported at 1,616,000.000 AUD in 2016. Australia Weekly Gross Income: 2015-16p: Median data is updated yearly, averaging 1,616,000.000 AUD from Jun 2016 (Median) to 2016, with 1 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1,616,000.000 AUD in 2016 and a record low of 1,616,000.000 AUD in 2016. Australia Weekly Gross Income: 2015-16p: Median data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Australian Bureau of Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Australia – Table AU.H031: Survey of Income and Housing: Gross Household Income: by Family Composition. Rebased from 2015-16p to 2017-18p. Replacement series ID: 418996897

Australia Household Income: Trend: Gross Disposable Income data was reported at 310,021.000 AUD mn in Mar 2019. This records an increase from the previous number of 307,715.000 AUD mn for Dec 2018. Australia Household Income: Trend: Gross Disposable Income data is updated quarterly, averaging 62,425.000 AUD mn from Sep 1959 (Median) to Mar 2019, with 239 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 310,021.000 AUD mn in Mar 2019 and a record low of 3,087.000 AUD mn in Sep 1959. Australia Household Income: Trend: Gross Disposable Income data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Australian Bureau of Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Australia – Table AU.A288: SNA08: Household Saving Ratio and Household Income: Trend.

Australia Weekly Gross Income: 2019-20p: Median: One Family: Couple with Dependent Children data was reported at 2,794,000.000 AUD in 2020. Australia Weekly Gross Income: 2019-20p: Median: One Family: Couple with Dependent Children data is updated yearly, averaging 2,794,000.000 AUD from Jun 2020 (Median) to 2020, with 1 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 2,794,000.000 AUD in 2020 and a record low of 2,794,000.000 AUD in 2020. Australia Weekly Gross Income: 2019-20p: Median: One Family: Couple with Dependent Children data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Australian Bureau of Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Australia – Table AU.H031: Survey of Income and Housing: Gross Household Income: by Family Composition.

Australia Weekly Gross Income: 2017-18p: Median: One Family: One Parent with Dependent Children data was reported at 1,245,000.000 AUD in 2018. Australia Weekly Gross Income: 2017-18p: Median: One Family: One Parent with Dependent Children data is updated yearly, averaging 1,245,000.000 AUD from Jun 2018 (Median) to 2018, with 1 observations. Australia Weekly Gross Income: 2017-18p: Median: One Family: One Parent with Dependent Children data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Australian Bureau of Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Australia – Table AU.H016: Survey of Income and Housing: Gross Household Income: by Family Composition.

Australia Weekly Gross Income: 2013-14p: Median: One Family: One Parent with Dependent Children data was reported at 1,059.260 AUD in 2014. Australia Weekly Gross Income: 2013-14p: Median: One Family: One Parent with Dependent Children data is updated yearly, averaging 1,059.260 AUD from Jun 2014 (Median) to 2014, with 1 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1,059.260 AUD in 2014 and a record low of 1,059.260 AUD in 2014. Australia Weekly Gross Income: 2013-14p: Median: One Family: One Parent with Dependent Children data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Australian Bureau of Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Australia – Table AU.H031: Survey of Income and Housing: Gross Household Income: by Family Composition.

Australia Weekly Equivalized Disposable Income: 2017-18p: Median: One Family: Other data was reported at 1,046,000.000 AUD in 2018. Australia Weekly Equivalized Disposable Income: 2017-18p: Median: One Family: Other data is updated yearly, averaging 1,046,000.000 AUD from Jun 2018 (Median) to 2018, with 1 observations. Australia Weekly Equivalized Disposable Income: 2017-18p: Median: One Family: Other data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Australian Bureau of Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Australia – Table AU.H014: Survey of Income and Housing: Equivalized Disposable Household Income: by Family Composition.

Australia Weekly Gross Income: 2013-14p: Median data was reported at 1,547.514 AUD in 2014. Australia Weekly Gross Income: 2013-14p: Median data is updated yearly, averaging 1,547.514 AUD from Jun 2014 (Median) to 2014, with 1 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1,547.514 AUD in 2014 and a record low of 1,547.514 AUD in 2014. Australia Weekly Gross Income: 2013-14p: Median data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Australian Bureau of Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Australia – Table AU.H031: Survey of Income and Housing: Gross Household Income: by Family Composition. Rebased from 2013-14p to 2015-16p. Replacement series ID: 389688827