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One in five Australian renters are living without essential items and in poverty, peak body study finds (www.abc.net.au)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I admit that I was surprised that $80k was median salary - I just asked Google "Median Salary Australia" and didn't follow the links etc. Your source is great, but three financial years old. Seek reckon the current median salary is $65k, though their ads probably skew a tad high. It isn't enough of a difference from $58k to argue much over.

$58k or $65k (or even $80k), it doesn't change the point I was making: It is not at all surprising that people are doing it tough.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

oh I wasn't disagreeing with you, just pointing out the disingenuousness of "average wages". Stick musk and ten unemployed people in a room and the average person in there earns billions. We really need to kill that shit, it's used to infer that people are doing it rough due to "poor choices" rather than we're all middle class citizens absolutely taking it up the arse without lube

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah there are a couple of metrics. The main two are the median salary of all adults which includes a lot of people not in the workforce (zero wage) and then the median salary for anyone "employed" (working any hours) which would be higher.

Dunno what the latest number are but at a guess mid 50s looks like the total median and 80ish is the median of job holders

(.median is used because mean is skewed by outliers like billionaires. Median means half of the people measured are below and half above)