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.
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
Yeah that ‘average salary’ is lies damned lies and statistics
The actual median personal income is around $58k
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.
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
When you break it down by region it makes a bit more sense but plenty of people are still doing it tough.