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Average Weekly Earnings, Australia

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Estimates of weekly earnings classified by industry, sector, state and territory

Reference period
November 2022
Released
23/02/2023

Key statistics

Estimates for average weekly ordinary time earnings for full-time adults (seasonally adjusted):

  • Increased by 3.4% to $1,807.70 annually to November 2022.
  • For males were $2,091.20 (public), and $1,874.40 (private).
  • For females were $1,857.50 (public), and $1,573.00 (private).
Average weekly earnings, key statistics
 Nov 2022Nov 2021 to Nov 2022
$% change
TrendFull-time adult average weekly ordinary time earnings1,805.903.2
Full-time adult average weekly total earnings1,875.203.4
All employees average weekly total earnings1,376.603.7
Seasonally AdjustedFull-time adult average weekly ordinary time earnings (a)1,807.703.4
Full-time adult average weekly total earnings1,876.803.6
All employees average weekly total earnings (a)1,378.603.7
OriginalFull-time adult average weekly ordinary time earnings1,807.703.4
Full-time adult average weekly total earnings1,878.503.6
All employees average weekly total earnings1,378.603.7

(a) This component is not seasonally adjusted.

Survey impacts and changes

Reinstating trend data

Commencing with this issue, the ABS has reinstated Average Weekly Earnings trend estimates (including for the entire COVID-19 period in the spreadsheets) and reverted to concurrent seasonal adjustment. However, the key figures and graphs in the Average Weekly Earnings release will continue to focus on seasonally adjusted estimates. This will be reviewed for future releases. For further information, see Seasonal adjustment and trend estimates below.

Guide to labour statistics

To learn more about our different labour measures, their purpose and how to use them, see our Guide to labour statistics. It provides summary information on key labour market topics including Earnings data.

Seasonal adjustment and trend estimates

Understanding compositional changes in earnings

Australia

Average weekly earnings, trend
 Nov 2022Nov 2021 to Nov 2022
$% change
MalesFull-time adult average weekly ordinary time earnings1,906.203.1
Full-time adult average weekly total earnings2,003.203.4
All employees average weekly total earnings1,618.702.8
FemalesFull-time adult average weekly ordinary time earnings1,650.803.8
Full-time adult average weekly total earnings1,678.903.9
All employees average weekly total earnings1,144.304.7
PersonsFull-time adult average weekly ordinary time earnings1,805.903.2
Full-time adult average weekly total earnings1,875.203.4
All employees average weekly total earnings1,376.603.7
Average weekly earnings, seasonally adjusted
 Nov 2022Nov 2021 to Nov 2022
$% change
MalesFull-time adult average weekly ordinary time earnings (a)1,907.103.3
Full-time adult average weekly total earnings2,004.903.6
All employees average weekly total earnings (a)1,621.202.8
FemalesFull-time adult average weekly ordinary time earnings (a)1,653.603.9
Full-time adult average weekly total earnings1,680.604.1
All employees average weekly total earnings1,144.904.8
PersonsFull-time adult average weekly ordinary time earnings (a)1,807.703.4
Full-time adult average weekly total earnings1,876.803.6
All employees average weekly total earnings (a)1,378.603.7

(a) This component is not seasonally adjusted.

Average weekly earnings, original
 Nov 2022Nov 2021 to Nov 2022
$% change
MalesFull-time adult average weekly ordinary time earnings1,907.103.3
Full-time adult average weekly total earnings2,004.903.6
All employees average weekly total earnings1,621.202.8
FemalesFull-time adult average weekly ordinary time earnings1,653.603.9
Full-time adult average weekly total earnings1,682.804.1
All employees average weekly total earnings1,146.104.8
PersonsFull-time adult average weekly ordinary time earnings1,807.703.4
Full-time adult average weekly total earnings1,878.503.6
All employees average weekly total earnings1,378.603.7

Private and public sector

Average weekly earnings, by sector, original
 Nov 2022Nov 2021 to Nov 2022
$% change
AustraliaFull-time adult average weekly ordinary time earnings1,807.703.4
Full-time adult average weekly total earnings1,878.503.6
All employees average weekly total earnings1,378.603.7
Private SectorFull-time adult average weekly ordinary time earnings1,768.003.6
Full-time adult average weekly total earnings1,839.503.8
All employees average weekly total earnings1,318.004.1
Public SectorFull-time adult average weekly ordinary time earnings1,965.003.0
Full-time adult average weekly total earnings2,033.303.2
All employees average weekly total earnings1,658.403.0

Industry

State and territory

Cash earnings (includes salary sacrifice)

Data downloads

Australia

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Sector

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Industry

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State and territory

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State by sector

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Cash earnings (includes salary sacrifice)

Data files

All November 2022 spreadsheets

Time series spreadsheets

Seasonality

Some of the seasonally adjusted series above do not display seasonality, so they are not seasonally adjusted. In these cases the seasonally adjusted figure will be the same as the original series. The file below lists the treatment of each of these series.

Seasonality guide

Previous catalogue number

This release previously used catalogue number 6302.0.

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