STATE AND TERRITORY ESTIMATES
The above graphic illustrates each state or territory's share of economic aggregates relating to the
Total selected industries in 2005-06. The distribution is similar across wages and salaries, total income and total expenses. New South Wales contributes less to the profit measures shown, and Western Australia contributes more, than to the other variables. This reflects the industry composition in the respective states.
Measured by share of total income, six different industries predominated in the various jurisdictions. Manufacturing was the largest of the Total selected industries in 2005-06 in two states (Queensland and South Australia). Wholesale trade's total income barely exceeded that of Manufacturing in Victoria. In New South Wales, Wholesale trade and Property and business services ranked very close to equal first. Western Australia's largest source of income was Mining, Construction predominated this measure in the Northern Territory, and Retail trade in Tasmania. Property and business services was the major source of total income in the Australian Capital Territory.
In terms of EBITDA, Property and business services was the major industry in 2005-06 in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, and the Australian Capital Territory. Mining predominated in Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory, and Manufacturing in Tasmania. The Property and business services industry was the major source of OPBT in five jurisdictions (New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and the Australian Capital Territory). Mining was the major source of OPBT in Western Australia and the Northern Territory, and Manufacturing predominated in Tasmania.
Property and business services was even more dominant in its share of wages and salaries paid, being the major industry in all jurisdictions apart from South Australia and Tasmania. In both of these, the largest source of wages and salaries was Manufacturing.
Each state or territory was dominated by its major industry to a different degree, depending on the variable being analysed. Measured by wages and salaries paid, the predominance of a particular industry was greatest in the Australian Capital Territory, where Property and business services contributed 30%. In comparison, Tasmania's major industry by this measure (Manufacturing) provided 16% of that state's wages and salaries.
In 2005-06 Western Australia was the most industrially concentrated state or territory in terms of industries' shares of OPBT, its major industry (Mining) generating 43% of the state's OPBT. Similarly, Mining contributed 41% of OPBT in the Northern Territory. By contrast, the main source of OPBT in Tasmania (Manufacturing) accounted for 21% of that state's OPBT. The pattern for EBITDA was similar, with Western Australia and the Northern Territory being the most heavily dominated (by Mining, which generated 45% and 41% of their EBITDA respectively) and South Australia the least (where only 16% of that state's EBITDA was produced by its largest industry, Property and business services).
In terms of total income, the extent of dominance by particular industries varied over a much narrower range: from 22% for Property and business services in the Australian Capital Territory, to the 16% contributed by Manufacturing in Queensland and by Construction in the Northern Territory. This distribution is affected by the fact that, as noted above, in both New South Wales and Victoria the largest two industries contribute almost equally to total income.
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