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Average monthly salary in Australia

What does a month of average work pay, in what it buys?

Australia's average monthly salary is $3,926 PPP/mo — #29 of 92 countries on the atlas (higher is better). Period 2021.

$3,926PPP/mo

Checked 4 Sept 2026Period 2021

Source: ILO monthly earnings of employees (EAR_EMTA mean + EAR_EMTM median)

The average employee in Australia earns about $3,926 a month before tax, measured in dollars adjusted for what they buy locally.

Among 92 countries

10 of 92 countries between $288 PPP/mo and $584 PPP/mo6 of 92 countries between $584 PPP/mo and $879 PPP/mo12 of 92 countries between $879 PPP/mo and $1,175 PPP/mo8 of 92 countries between $1,175 PPP/mo and $1,471 PPP/mo8 of 92 countries between $1,471 PPP/mo and $1,766 PPP/mo3 of 92 countries between $1,766 PPP/mo and $2,062 PPP/mo7 of 92 countries between $2,062 PPP/mo and $2,358 PPP/mo1 of 92 countries between $2,358 PPP/mo and $2,653 PPP/mo2 of 92 countries between $2,653 PPP/mo and $2,949 PPP/mo1 of 92 countries between $2,949 PPP/mo and $3,244 PPP/mo4 of 92 countries between $3,244 PPP/mo and $3,540 PPP/mo4 of 92 countries between $3,836 PPP/mo and $4,131 PPP/mo7 of 92 countries between $4,131 PPP/mo and $4,427 PPP/mo2 of 92 countries between $4,427 PPP/mo and $4,723 PPP/mo1 of 92 countries between $4,723 PPP/mo and $5,018 PPP/mo3 of 92 countries between $5,018 PPP/mo and $5,314 PPP/mo3 of 92 countries between $5,314 PPP/mo and $5,610 PPP/mo2 of 92 countries between $5,905 PPP/mo and $6,201 PPP/mo2 of 92 countries between $6,201 PPP/mo and $6,496 PPP/mo2 of 92 countries between $6,496 PPP/mo and $6,792 PPP/mo4 of 92 countries between $7,088 PPP/mo and $7,383 PPP/momedian $1,928 PPP/moAustralia: ahead of 68 % of the 92 countries with a published monthly earningsAustralia $3,926 PPP/mo$288 PPP/mo$7,383 PPP/mo
Half of all 92 countries sit between $1,079 PPP/mo and $4,226 PPP/mo. Australia is ahead of 68 % of them. Axis trimmed to the 2nd–98th percentile; 3 values beyond it sit in the end bars.
Rank
#29 of 92
higher is better
Ranked behind
68 %
63 of 92 countries

vs median $1,986 PPP/mo: +98 % (better)

The neighbourhood

#CountryMonthly earningsvs Australia
27 New Zealand$4,064 PPP/mo+$138 PPP/mo
28 Czech Republic$4,055 PPP/mo+$129 PPP/mo
29 Australia$3,926 PPP/mo—
30 United Kingdom$3,862 PPP/mo−$64 PPP/mo
31 Romania$3,531 PPP/mo−$395 PPP/mo

Mean monthly earnings of employees in PPP international dollars (ILO). Reaches 91 countries where the OECD average wage reaches 38 — a different collection and a monthly figure, so it is its own field rather than an extension of that one.

How to read this figure

Mean monthly earnings of employees from the ILO, in PPP international dollars — gross, before tax, main job, full-time and part-time workers together, both sexes. This is the wage field that reaches beyond the OECD: 91 countries against the average wage’s 38. It is not the same figure as the OECD average salary and should not be multiplied by twelve to compare with it — different collection, different population, and the ILO series is a mean of whatever employment the national source covers.

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