VICTORIA

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Statistical Local Areas With Highest Average Wage and Salary Income
Wage and Salary Earners By Occupation
Wage and Salary Earners By Wage and Salary Income
Wage and Salary Earners By Sex
Wage and Salary Earners By Age
Total Income of Wage and Salary Earners



STATISTICAL LOCAL AREAS WITH HIGHEST AVERAGE WAGE AND SALARY INCOME


In Victoria, wage and salary earners residing in the inner metropolitan Statistical Local Areas (SLAs) of Bayside (C) - Brighton, Port Phillip (C) - West, Stonnington (C) - Prahran, Boroondara (C) - Kew and Stonnington (C) - Malvern had the highest average incomes from wages and salaries in 2003-04. These average wage and salary incomes ranged from $62,715 in Bayside (C) - Brighton to $54,888 in Stonnington (C) - Malvern.

Australia wide, Bayside (C) - Brighton had the sixth highest average wage and salary income, following the New South Wales SLAs of Mosman (A), Woollahra (A), Hunter's Hill (A), Ku-ring-gai (A) and North Sydney (A). Bayside (C) - Brighton was the only Victorian SLA in the top ten ranked SLAs across Australia. The ranking for the next four Victorian SLAs ranged from 16th for Port Phillip (C) - West to 32nd for Stonnington (C) - Malvern.


This article focuses on the five SLAs in Victoria with the highest average wage and salary incomes in 2003-04. To view images of these SLAs via Google Maps Australia please click on the following links: Bayside (C) - Brighton, Port Phillip (C) - West, Stonnington (C) - Prahran, Boroondara (C) - Kew and Stonnington (C) - Malvern.

			Wage and salary earners	Wage and salary income	Average wage and salary income
SLA Name			No.	$	$
Bayside (C) - Brighton			14,349	899,903,017	62,715
Port Phillip (C) - West			15,710	912,001,958	58,052
Stonnington (C) - Prahran			19,458	1,088,547,185	55,943
Boroondara (C) - Kew			11,447	630,222,258	55,056
Stonnington (C) - Malvern			19,838	1,088,872,093	54,888
Victoria			1,968,244	76,278,074,821	38,754

Source: ATO Income Tax Data



WAGE AND SALARY EARNERS BY OCCUPATION


In 2003-04, wage and salary earners in the five Victorian SLAs with the highest average wage and salary incomes were most likely to be working as Managers and administrators, Professionals or Intermediate clerical, sales and service workers. Employment in these occupations accounted for around 65% of the wage and salary earners in these SLAs compared to 46% on average across Victoria.

	Manag- ers and admini- strators	Profess- ionals	Associ- ate prof- ession- als	Trades- persons and related workers	Advanc- ed clerical and service workers	Interme- diate clerical, sales and service workers	Interme- diate product- ion and transport workers	Element- ary clerical, sales and service workers	Labour- ers and related workers	Not stated
SLA Name	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%
Bayside (C) - Brighton	21.6	28.9	7.4	3.5	4.0	14.9	1.4	7.1	2.2	9.1
Port Phillip (C) - West	20.1	29.7	7.9	3.6	3.8	14.5	2.0	4.8	3.5	10.2
Stonnington (C) - Prahran	17.4	30.2	8.2	3.2	3.6	16.2	1.4	6.5	2.6	10.8
Boroondara (C) - Kew	16.1	34.6	7.4	3.3	3.2	14.6	1.4	7.4	2.5	9.4
Stonnington (C) - Malvern	16.7	31.0	7.3	3.7	3.9	14.9	1.7	7.9	3.2	9.6
Victoria	10.1	19.3	6.4	10.1	2.9	16.6	6.6	9.5	9.8	8.8

Source: ATO Income Tax Data.



WAGE AND SALARY EARNERS BY WAGE AND SALARY INCOME


The largest difference in the income range distribution between wage and salary earners in these SLAs and the average Victorian wage and salary earners was in the $78,000 or more income range, with between 16% and 21% of employees in these SLAs in this range. This compares to 7% of wage and salary earners in this income range across Victoria.

For the high ranking SLAs in Victoria, the proportion of wage and salary earners in each of the five income ranges from $1 through to $52,000 was generally below the state average. The most notable of these was the $20,800 to $31,200 income range with around 13% of wage and salary earner residents of the high ranking SLAs compared with 17% across Victoria.

	$1 to less than $10,400	$10,400 to less than $20,800	$20,800 to less than $31,200	$31,200 to less than $41,600	$41,600 to less than $52,000	$52,000 to less than $78,000	$78,000 or more
SLA Name	%	%	%	%	%	%	%
Bayside (C) - Brighton	10.9	12.5	12.7	13.1	11.9	18.0	20.9
Port Phillip (C) - West	8.8	10.2	12.0	14.7	13.9	20.4	19.9
Stonnington (C) - Prahran	10.1	12.3	13.2	16.3	14.3	18.1	15.6
Boroondara (C) - Kew	11.4	12.6	13.1	13.8	12.9	19.2	17.0
Stonnington (C) - Malvern	12.0	12.6	13.2	14.3	12.9	18.1	17.0
Victoria	12.3	15.1	17.4	18.2	14.2	16.3	6.6

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Source: ATO Income Tax Data.



WAGE AND SALARY EARNERS BY SEX


While across Victoria there were more male wage and salary earners than female wage and salary earners, a common characteristic of the SLAs with the highest average incomes from wages and salaries in Victoria was an above average proportion of female wage and salary earners. Of these SLAs, Stonnington (C) - Prahran and Boroondara (C) - Kew had the highest proportions of female wage and salary earners, both with females accounting for 50% of wage and salary earners.




WAGE AND SALARY EARNERS BY AGE


In 2003-04, Bayside (C) - Brighton had a relatively older wage and salary earner population with a higher than average proportion of wage and salary earners aged 35 years and older (66% compared to 56% across Victoria), and a lower than average proportion of wage and salary earners aged 34 years and younger (34% compared to 44%).

In contrast, Port Phillip (C) - West and Stonnington (C) - Prahran, had relatively younger wage and salary earner populations with more than half of the wage and salary earners aged 34 years and younger. In these SLAs the greatest proportion of the wage and salary earner population was in the 25 to 34 years age group.

	15-24 years	25-34 years	35-44 years	45-54 years	55 years and over
SLA Name	%	%	%	%	%
Bayside (C) - Brighton	14.2	20.2	25.3	23.9	16.5
Port Phillip (C) - West	11.8	39.5	22.8	15.1	10.8
Stonnington (C) - Prahran	15.0	41.8	19.4	12.9	10.8
Boroondara (C) - Kew	17.2	25.3	22.6	20.9	14.0
Stonnington (C) - Malvern	16.1	28.0	23.1	20.0	12.8
Victoria	18.1	25.4	24.1	21.1	11.2

Source: ATO Income Tax Data.



TOTAL INCOME OF WAGE AND SALARY EARNERS


The total income of wage and salary earners relates to their wage and salary income in addition to any income or loss from sources such as investments, superannuation and annuities, own unincorporated businesses and government cash benefits.

In 2003-04, wage and salary earner residents of these high income SLAs tended to receive more income from sources other than wages and salaries than the average wage and salary earner in Victoria. Bayside (C) - Brighton had the largest difference between average total income and average wage and salary income at $6,486, followed by Stonnington (C) - Prahran ($6,420) and Boroondara (C) - Kew ($6,400). In Victoria, the difference between average total income and average wage and salary income was $2,111.

			Average wage and salary income	Average total income	Average total income less Average wage and salary income
SLA Name			$	$	$
Bayside (C) - Brighton			62,715	69,201	6,486
Port Phillip (C) - West			58,052	61,888	3,836
Stonnington (C) - Prahran			55,943	62,363	6,420
Boroondara (C) - Kew			55,056	61,456	6,400
Stonnington (C) - Malvern			54,888	60,576	5,688
Victoria			38,754	40,865	2,111

Source: ATO Income Tax Data



To access wage and salary data for all SLAs in Australia click on the following link to Regional Wage and Salary Earner Statistics, Australia - Data Cubes, 2003-04 (cat. no. 5673.0.55.003).