The average Australian full-time worker earns $82,435 a year but there’s one city where salaries are substantially higher, official figures show.
Average weekly earnings, before tax and bonuses, stand at $1,585.30, following an annual wage increase of 2.7 per cent.
For an average full-time worker, that equates to $82,435.60 a year.
The average Australian full-time worker earns $82,435 a year but there’s one city where salaries are substantially higher, official figures show
If that is not enough, workers wanting to earning 14 per cent more, or an average full-time salary of $94,224, should move to Canberra – the national capital and home to most Federal Government departments.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics’s wage data for May, released today, showed the Australian Capital Territory offers average weekly earnings of $1,812, making it the nation’s richest state or territory.
In terms of professions, mining engineers make the most per week, with pay packets of $2,592.00, or $134,784 a year.
For almost everyone else, the Australian Bureau of Statistics’s chief economist Bruce Hockman said wages growth was still stagnant.

If that is not enough, workers wanting to earning 14 per cent more, or an average full-time salary of $94,125, are urged to move to Canberra, Australia’s home of public servants
‘We’re still seeing low average earnings growth,’ he said.

Mining engineers, however, made even more per week, with pay packets of $2,592.00, or $134,784 a year
Average salaries rose by one per cent in the six months to May 2018, translating into an annual increase of 2.7 per cent.
Public servants enjoyed higher annual wage increases of 3.2 per cent, compared with the private sector average of 2.7 per cent.
While the overall increases were small, they were still an improvement on the six months to May 2017, when wages rose by a minuscule 0.6 per cent.
Tasmanians had the lowest average salaries of $1,379.30 a week, or $71,723.60 a year.
Australia’s unemployment rate fell marginally from 5.4 per cent to a five-and-a-half year low of 5.3 per cent in July even though 3,900 jobs were lost.
Mining-rich Western Australia had the nation’s second highest salaries of $90,496 a year.
The Northern Territory, which is home to natural gas projects, was third with average salaries of $86,762 a year.
New South Wales, which includes Australia’s financial powerhouse Sydney, was the only other state or territory to offer above-average salaries of $83,517 a year.