6302.0 - Average Weekly Earnings, Australia, Feb 2007

ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 17/05/2007

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KEY FIGURES


			Nov 2006	Feb 2006
		February 2007	to Feb 2007	to Feb 2007
TREND ESTIMATES		$	% change	% change

Private & public sectors
	Full-time adult ordinary time earnings	1 070.40	0.9	3.4
	Full-time adult total earnings	1 115.90	0.8	3.0
	All employees total earnings	856.10	1.0	4.4

Private sector
	Full-time adult ordinary time earnings(a)	np	np	np
	Full-time adult total earnings(a)	np	np	np

Public sector
	Full-time adult ordinary time earnings(a)	np	np	np
	Full-time adult total earnings(a)	np	np	np

SEASONALLY ADJUSTED ESTIMATES

Private & public sectors
	Full-time adult ordinary time earnings	1 071.70	1.1	3.5
	Full-time adult total earnings	1 117.00	1.0	3.1
	All employees total earnings	857.50	1.2	4.9

Private sector
	Full-time adult ordinary time earnings(a)	1 040.90	1.3	3.5
	Full-time adult total earnings(a)	1 088.00	1.2	3.0

Public sector
	Full-time adult ordinary time earnings(a)	1 182.50	0.7	3.6
	Full-time adult total earnings(a)	1 222.00	0.6	3.8
(a) See Notes - Changes in this issue np not published due to break in series

Graph: Full-time Adult Total Earnings - Quarterly % change in Trend Estimates, All Sectors

Graph: Full-time Adult Total Earnings - Quarterly % change in Trend Estimates, Private and Public

KEY POINTS

TREND ESTIMATES

Full-time adult ordinary time earnings rose by 3.7% for males and 3.0% for females in the twelve months to February 2007.
In the twelve months to February 2007, full-time adult total earnings rose by 3.2% for males and 2.9% for females.

NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE (Quarter)	RELEASE DATE
May 2007 August 2007	16 August 2007 15 November 2007

CHANGES IN THIS ISSUE

IMPACT OF PRIVATISATION OF TELSTRA CORPORATION

Telstra Corporation was effectively privatised on 20 November 2006. For the purposes of ABS statistics this change from public sector to private sector is effective from March quarter 2007. This change has impacted the Average Weekly earnings by sector series for February 2007 and movements between November 2006 and February 2007.

The effect of this change is significant for both the private sector and public sector series. As a result, a trend break has been applied to both series between November 2006 and February 2007.

For more information please see Information Paper: Future Treatment of Telstra in ABS Statistics, 2007 (cat. no. 8102.0), released 26 February 2007.

NOTES ON ESTIMATES

COMPOSITIONAL EFFECTS

Movements in average weekly earnings can be affected by both changes in the level of earnings per employee and changes in the composition of the labour force. For example, changes in the proportions of full-time, part-time, casual and junior employees and variations in the distribution of occupations can affect movements in earnings series. Refer to paragraphs 18 and 19 of the Explanatory Notes.

SAMPLING ERROR

For information on sampling error refer to the Technical Note. Standard errors for the original estimates contained in this publication are in tables 18 to 20.

ABBREVIATIONS

ABN	Australian Business Number
ABS	Australian Bureau of Statistics
ANZSIC	Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification
ATO	Australian Taxation Office
AWE	average weekly earnings
PAYGW	pay-as-you-go withholding
TAU	type of activity unit
WPI	wage price index

INQUIRIES

For further information about these and related statistics, contact the National Information and Referral Service on 1300 135 070 or Kevin Bolt on Perth (08) 9360 5304.