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How do you compare with people your age? ATO taxable income data for the 2023–24 income year.
Your age at 30 June 2024.
After deductions, before tax.
Your comparison
Add your age and taxable income. Your answer appears here as you type.
What is a typical income for your age? The median is the middle taxable income among tax return lodgers. Half are below it and half above. These estimates describe the 2023–24 income year, not today’s salaries.
| Under 18 | $7,838 | $8,699 | $8,217 |
| 18–24 | $32,736 | $36,596 | $34,624 |
| 25–29 | $53,964 | $62,416 | $58,062 |
| 30–34 | $57,850 | $77,114 | $66,923 |
| 35–39 | $60,834 | $88,524 | $73,653 |
| 40–44 | $65,425 | $94,611 | $78,946 |
| 45–49 | $67,903 | $96,183 | $80,807 |
| 50–54 | $65,960 | $93,336 | $78,074 |
| 55–59 | $60,167 | $85,792 | $71,427 |
| 60–64 | $48,130 | $68,549 | $57,159 |
| 65–69 | $35,571 | $45,284 | $39,924 |
| 70–74 | $29,324 | $32,882 | $30,961 |
| 75 and over | $31,247 | $30,663 | $30,988 |
Tax return lodgers only. Age at 30 June 2024. Estimates from ATO income bands, after deductions and before tax. Source: Taxation statistics 2023–24, Individuals Table 3A.
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Taxable income is not the same as salary
There is no single definition of a high earner. This table shows the estimated 90th percentile by age: the entry point to the top 10% of tax return lodgers in each group for the 2023–24 income year. It describes income, not wealth or living costs.
| Under 18 | $20,996 | $27,828 | $24,183 |
| 18–24 | $68,600 | $79,105 | $74,276 |
| 25–29 | $101,723 | $120,475 | $112,499 |
| 30–34 | $119,802 | $153,831 | $139,573 |
| 35–39 | $135,872 | $181,161 | $163,470 |
| 40–44 | $149,538 | $201,351 | $179,415 |
| 45–49 | $158,116 | $218,777 | $189,366 |
| 50–54 | $152,881 | $220,233 | $187,095 |
| 55–59 | $141,852 | $206,097 | $176,356 |
| 60–64 | $121,984 | $180,167 | $155,206 |
| 65–69 | $107,008 | $148,112 | $128,352 |
| 70–74 | $97,882 | $123,553 | $113,064 |
| 75 and over | $108,721 | $113,799 | $111,408 |
Interpolated estimates, not exact published cut-offs. Source: Taxation statistics 2023–24, Individuals Table 3A. Not estimable means the percentile falls in the lowest or open-ended top band.
The population is individuals who lodged a tax return for the 2023–24 income year. The measure is taxable income, after deductions. Age is at 30 June 2024. The ATO assigns unknown or indeterminate sex to male for this table.
We add up the lodgers below your income band, then estimate your position by interpolating within that band. This assumes incomes are evenly spread inside each band. The lowest band includes nil and loss incomes, so we treat it as a step. The highest band has no upper limit, so we do not estimate a position within it.
Cross-check: pooling all lodgers gives our estimated median of $58,733. The ATO’s published median is $58,739, a difference of $6. We pool counts rather than averaging age-group medians.
Results are general information only. The comparison is historical and does not measure your take-home pay, household income or financial wellbeing. The ATO and the Commonwealth do not endorse this tool.
Taxation statistics 2023–24, Individuals Table 3A. Retrieved 2026-10-15. Period: 2023–24 income year.
Source: Australian Taxation Office, Taxation statistics 2023–24, Individuals Table 3A (CC BY 2.5 AU). Returns processed by 31 October 2025; statistics may be incomplete. Where the sex of an individual is unknown or indeterminate, the individual is allocated to male for the purposes of this table. Median validation: https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/faea4485-f407-457d-97f8-3f0822ccd654/resource/61e0832a-3e39-43b6-893c-5ef43796651e/download/ts24individual01byyear.xlsx (sha256 ac43d342ffd903c8ee6e84cd35b184ab7d6bef5b30ad0aab7723b8c26c31e186). Not endorsed by the ATO or the Commonwealth. CC BY 2.5 AU. Estimates and presentation by Oz Finance Hub.
A percentile tells you where an income sits in a group. A different age band or sex selection changes that group, so read the result with its label. The estimate uses taxable income in the source year, with no inflation adjustment.
For a separate estimate of what reaches your bank account, try the take-home pay calculator. It applies the tax rules for its selected year rather than changing this historical comparison.
Looking for average income by age in Australia? This dataset supports an estimated median by age, which is the middle person’s taxable income. It does not provide a mean in this tool. For earnings from jobs, see Australian salary statistics and the salary by occupation pages, whose source populations and measures are different.
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