Full-time adult average weekly earnings — the numbers they don't put on the job ad.
Full-time adult average weekly earnings by state and territory — ranked highest to lowest.
Average weekly earnings by industry — full-time adults, Jul–Dec 2025. Top-earning industries pay 2.2× more than the bottom.
Full-time adult average weekly earnings — Males vs Females, national total. Men earn 14.5% more than women on average.
Half-yearly average weekly earnings since 2020 — watch the gap between states grow. Hover to compare.
Context for the data. Because raw numbers without context are just noise.
A full-time worker in Mining earns $3,286.50/week — that's 2.2× more than someone in Accommodation and Food Services at $1,526.80/week. Same 38-hour week. Wildly different outcome. The gap between the top and bottom-paid industries is $91,504 per year. Career advice nobody asked for: don't work in retail.
Australian men out-earn women by 14.5% in full-time employment — or $328.00 every single week. That compounds to $17,056 a year, which over a 40-year career is a staggering $682,240 difference in lifetime earnings (not adjusted for anything, just raw math). The gap has been narrowing slowly — but slowly is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence.
The median house price in NSW hovers around $1,400,000. At the average NSW full-time salary of $111,717/year, you'd need to save every single dollar you earn for 12.5 years to buy it outright. After tax, that's closer to 17.9 years of your entire take-home pay. The average weekly earnings look fine on paper until you divide them into a Sydney house price.