SALES AND SERVICE INCOME
Sales and service income of manufacturing industry in Australia in 2005-06, at $357.5b, was $20.0b (or 6%) higher than in 2004-05. Textile, clothing, footwear and leather manufacturing was the only subdivision in which sales and service income declined (by 3%).
Over the period from 2001-02 to 2005-06, manufacturing's total sales and service income increased by 22%.
At the industry group level, of those groups available for publication, Petroleum refining (ANZSIC group 251) recorded the largest increase in sales and service income between 2004-05 and 2005-06 in percentage (32%) and absolute ($7.2b) terms. This industry group also made the largest contribution to sales and service income in 2005-06, of 8%.
Sales and service income per person employed in Australian manufacturing in 2005-06 was $336,000, 5% (or $16,600) higher than for 2004-05, and 20% (or $55,900) higher than in 2001-02.