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Earnings reference period May 2025 · take-home tax year 2026–27
Weekly earnings medians for 31 published JSA occupation groups, shown as annualised equivalents alongside a separate modelled take-home calculation using 2026–27 tax rules.
The earnings measure comes from the official Jobs and Skills Australia February 2026 occupation workbook, based on the ABS Employee Earnings and Hours customised report for May 2025. It reports gross weekly cash earnings before tax for full-time, non-managerial employees paid at adult rates, including amounts salary sacrificed. Estimates with a relative standard error of 25 per cent or more are suppressed. A source group can cover adjacent jobs, so the table shows the JSA group label used for each page rather than claiming that every row is a direct estimate for only the site occupation.
The annualised equivalent is the published weekly median multiplied by 52. It is a consistent arithmetic comparison, not an observed annual salary, an entry-level or senior range, a current-year pay observation or a forecast. No inflation uplift is applied. Across the tracked source groups, the summary median and category averages are unweighted calculations over the available group medians; they are not population-weighted estimates of what all Australian workers earn. The 6 occupation pages without an equivalent published median are excluded from numeric summaries and explain the source gap on their own pages.
Take-home amounts are a different kind of figure. For each annualised earnings equivalent, the site runs a stated resident, tax-free-threshold and private-hospital-cover scenario through the tax engine for 2026–27. It assumes the benchmark is ordinary taxable salary for that illustration, even though the source measure includes salary-sacrificed cash earnings and does not identify an individual's ordinary-time-earnings base. Take-home is therefore not observed in the JSA data and does not describe a typical worker's payslip. The model applies current financial-year settings to an older earnings period without uprating the underlying benchmark.
Use the source-group column to understand the population behind each amount and the tax columns as an illustration of those inputs. Actual pay and take-home depend on an individual's duties, hours, employer, agreement, salary packaging, deductions, HELP position, insurance and other circumstances. These group statistics do not set award entitlements or recommend what a person should earn.
$103,480
unweighted median of available annualised group medians
$80,166
modelled take-home at that amount (2026–27)
22.4%
mean modelled tax rate across tracked groups
Mining Operator
highest Drillers, Miners and Shot Firers annualised equivalent (May 2025): $151,216
Annualised equivalents of May 2025 full-time weekly medians, highest first by default. Sort on any column or filter by occupation or field. Each row names its source group. Take-home assumes an Australian resident claiming the tax-free threshold with private hospital cover, no HELP debt and the $1,000 standard work-expense deduction. Click an occupation for its source notes and the full model breakdown.
| Mining Operator | $151,216 | $111,562 |
| Paramedic | $148,304 | $109,785 |
| HR Manager | $143,936 | $107,121 |
| Marketing Manager | $139,204 | $104,234 |
| Mechanical Engineer | $135,928 | $102,231 |
| Police Officer | $133,120 | $100,322 |
| Software Engineer | $131,924 | $99,508 |
| Firefighter | $128,596 | $97,245 |
| Secondary School Teacher | $120,744 | $91,906 |
| Primary School Teacher | $115,752 | $88,511 |
| Civil Engineer | $115,284 | $88,193 |
| Registered Nurse | $113,984 | $87,309 |
| Electrician | $113,932 | $87,274 |
| Lawyer (Solicitor) | $107,640 | $82,995 |
| Accountant | $104,156 | $80,626 |
| Plumber | $103,480 | $80,166 |
| Truck Driver | $101,920 | $79,106 |
| Physiotherapist | $98,176 | $76,560 |
| Executive Assistant | $95,264 | $74,580 |
| Enrolled Nurse | $92,404 | $72,635 |
| Aged Care Worker | $91,572 | $72,069 |
| Carpenter | $91,520 | $72,034 |
| Sales Representative | $87,984 | $69,629 |
| IT Support Officer | $87,724 | $69,452 |
| Diesel Mechanic | $84,344 | $67,154 |
| Retail Manager | $84,240 | $67,083 |
| Bank Teller | $83,720 | $66,730 |
| Real Estate Agent | $78,208 | $62,981 |
| Barista | $78,000 | $62,840 |
| Chef | $73,996 | $60,117 |
| Delivery Driver | $68,016 | $56,051 |
Unweighted mean of the tracked JSA source-group annualised equivalents within each site category.
Earnings figures are gross weekly source-group medians from the Jobs and Skills Australia February 2026 occupation workbook, based on ABS Employee Earnings and Hours, May 2025, multiplied by 52 as annualised equivalents. The earnings population is Full-time non-managerial employees paid at the adult rate; gross weekly cash earnings before tax, inclusive of amounts salary sacrificed. Take-home pay applies the 2026–27 resident tax brackets, Medicare levy and offsets exactly as our salary tax calculator does, with rates verified against ATO sources daily. Take-home is after the $1,000 standard work-expense deduction every wage earner gets from 2026–27 automatically, which is what the calculator applies too. No inflation uplift is applied to the May 2025 earnings reference period. These group statistics are not award rates or advice.
You’re welcome to reference these figures with a link (CC BY 4.0). Suggested citation: “Australian salary statistics 2026–27, Oz Finance Hub, ozfinancehub.com.au/australian-salary-statistics”.
Each occupation's source group and after-tax illustration is in the salary by occupation hub. For how fast pay is rising, see Australian wage growth statistics. For which jobs are beating inflation, see wages vs inflation, and for incomes by area, the average income by postcode across Australia.