6310.0 - Employee Earnings, Benefits and Trade Union Membership, Australia, August 2012 Quality Declaration 
ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 17/05/2013   
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CONTENT AND DESIGN

This publication presents information about the distribution of weekly earnings of employees, their entitlement to core employment benefits such as paid leave (paid holiday, paid sick, paid long service and paid maternity/paternity leave), superannuation contributions made by employers on behalf of employees, and trade union membership. This information can be cross-classified by a range of personal characteristics such as age, sex and country of birth, and by characteristics of employment such as full-time or part-time status, industry and occupation of main job.

The statistics in this publication were compiled from the Employee Earnings, Benefits and Trade Union Membership (EEBTUM) Survey conducted throughout Australia in August 2012 as a supplement to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) monthly Labour Force Survey (LFS). Questions were asked of all employees in their main job except for those who worked solely for payment in kind in their main job.

As estimates have been rounded, discrepancies may occur between sums of the component items and totals.

The survey design information relevant to the Labour Force Survey also applies to the Employee Earnings, Benefits and Trade Union Membership and other supplementary surveys, with some exceptions for special dwellings. It includes people in both urban and rural areas in all states and territories but excluded persons living in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in very remote parts of Australia. Refer to the Explanatory Notes of the publication for more information.

EMPLOYEES

Employees are people who:

    • worked for a public or private employer; and
    • received remuneration in wages, salary or are paid a retainer fee by their employer and worked on a commission basis, or for tips or piece-rates or payment in kind; or
    • operated their own incorporated enterprise with or without hiring employees.
This survey was restricted to employees in their main job excluding employees who worked solely for payment in kind in their main job. Persons not in the labour force and unemployed persons were also excluded.