AUD per week (gross) - Source frequency: annual · Methodology · Corrections
Australia's average weekly earnings (full-time) was $2,084 as of January 2026. Average gross weekly earnings for full-time adult employees, from ABS Average Weekly Earnings survey. This is pre-tax income. Tracks headline wage levels over time. Used as an income benchmark in burden indices (MRBI, RBI). Note: this is gross (pre-tax) earnings. Data is sourced from ABS Average Weekly Earnings (Cat. 6302.0 / AWE SDMX) and updated annually.
Average gross weekly earnings for full-time adult employees, from ABS Average Weekly Earnings survey. This is pre-tax income.
Tracks headline wage levels over time. Used as an income benchmark in burden indices (MRBI, RBI). Note: this is gross (pre-tax) earnings.
This data is sourced programmatically from official statistical APIs and data feeds (ABS Average Weekly Earnings (Cat. 6302.0 / AWE SDMX)), updated annually. The source link above points to the human-readable publication page, which presents the same underlying data in a different format (e.g. Excel workbook, PDF release). Our pipeline fetches the machine-readable version automatically and converts it to the standardised format shown here.
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