Earnings and work hours

Between the week ending 14 March and the week ending 3 October 2020 :

• Payroll jobs decreased by 4.1%
• Total wages decreased by 3.3%

• Full-time adult average weekly earnings increased by 4.8% to $1,713.90.
• Male average weekly earnings: $1,958.30 (public), and $1,780.70 (private).
• Female average weekly earnings: $1,751.30 (public), and $1,469.10 (private).
• The mining industry had the highest average weekly earnings at $2,697.50. 

• Total personal income was $856.2 billion.
• Median personal income was $48,360, up 1.4 per cent on 2015-16.
• The largest income category was employee income, at 87.2 per cent of total personal income.

• Median employee earnings was $1,100 per week, up by 2.3% since August 2018.
• More employed people had access to flexible hours, while fewer usually worked overtime or were on call.
• Independent contractors were most likely to work in Construction or Professional, scientific and technical services.

• There were 19.2 million job relationships, up 3.6% on 2015-16.
• Jobs increased in 84.6% of Australia’s 2,288 regions.
• 15.6% of employed people (2.1 million) were multiple job holders.

• Median weekly earnings were $1,110 for all employees, $1,463 for full-time employees and $577 for part-time employees.
• Individual arrangements was the most common method of setting pay (41.1%), followed by collective agreements (37.9%) and award only (21.0%).