{
  "title": "Australian city employee earnings: ABS August 2025",
  "description": "Six Greater city regions with published median weekly main-job earnings for full-time employees and all employees, plus source cells and relative standard errors.",
  "publisher": "Paycalcmate",
  "author": "Dan",
  "sourcePublisher": "Australian Bureau of Statistics",
  "checkedAt": "2026-10-02",
  "temporalCoverage": "2025-08",
  "currency": "AUD",
  "variableMeasured": [
    "Full-time median weekly main-job earnings (AUD)",
    "All-employee median weekly main-job earnings (AUD)"
  ],
  "method": "Read-only verification of existing official Table 2 workbook. Header rows 6 to 8 and all geography rows 64163 to 64182 inspected. Exact source precision retained; public page rounds weekly dollars to nearest whole dollar.",
  "referencePeriod": "August 2025",
  "releaseDate": "2025-12-12",
  "sourceSheet": "Data 2",
  "sourceFilters": {
    "surveyMonth": "Aug-25",
    "parameter": "Median weekly earnings",
    "stateAndTerritory": "Australia",
    "sex": "Persons",
    "classification": "Greater Capital City and Rest of State",
    "category": "The six Greater city rows only"
  },
  "sourceColumns": {
    "G": "Full-time median weekly earnings",
    "H": "Full-time relative standard error (%)",
    "O": "All-employee median weekly earnings",
    "P": "All-employee relative standard error (%)"
  },
  "geography": "Greater city regions based on usual residence, not municipal boundaries or employer location",
  "measure": "Gross weekly main-job earnings of employees; full-time and all-employees reported separately",
  "sourceWorkbookSHA256": "8c6ace25192f179a42fb1ba91c698e5541ec4fcbdfbab473701a48c033d19cec",
  "limitations": [
    "No standalone Greater Darwin or Canberra row in this source block. NT and ACT are territory observations and are not relabelled as cities.",
    "Weekly earnings reflect working hours and workforce composition as well as pay rates. These are survey medians, not annual salary means, living costs, household incomes or job-specific offers.",
    "Relative standard errors quantify sampling uncertainty for individual estimates, not the statistical significance of a city difference. No significance or best-city ranking is inferred."
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "label": "ABS Employee earnings, August 2025: Table 2, Data 2, rows 64164 to 64179",
      "url": "https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/labour/earnings-and-working-conditions/employee-earnings/aug-2025/63370_Table02.xlsx"
    },
    {
      "label": "ABS Employee earnings, August 2025 release",
      "url": "https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/labour/earnings-and-working-conditions/employee-earnings/aug-2025"
    },
    {
      "label": "ABS Characteristics of Employment methodology, August 2025",
      "url": "https://www.abs.gov.au/methodologies/characteristics-employment-australia-methodology/aug-2025"
    }
  ],
  "rows": [
    {
      "city": "Greater Sydney",
      "allEmployeesWeeklyAud": 1500,
      "fullTimeWeeklyAud": 1846,
      "allEmployeesRsePercent": 0.6,
      "fullTimeRsePercent": 1.6,
      "allEmployeesSourceCell": "Data 2!O64164",
      "fullTimeSourceCell": "Data 2!G64164"
    },
    {
      "city": "Greater Melbourne",
      "allEmployeesWeeklyAud": 1400,
      "fullTimeWeeklyAud": 1701.447,
      "allEmployeesRsePercent": 1.5,
      "fullTimeRsePercent": 1.6,
      "allEmployeesSourceCell": "Data 2!O64167",
      "fullTimeSourceCell": "Data 2!G64167"
    },
    {
      "city": "Greater Brisbane",
      "allEmployeesWeeklyAud": 1500,
      "fullTimeWeeklyAud": 1750,
      "allEmployeesRsePercent": 1.3,
      "fullTimeRsePercent": 1.5,
      "allEmployeesSourceCell": "Data 2!O64170",
      "fullTimeSourceCell": "Data 2!G64170"
    },
    {
      "city": "Greater Adelaide",
      "allEmployeesWeeklyAud": 1337,
      "fullTimeWeeklyAud": 1646.069,
      "allEmployeesRsePercent": 1.9,
      "fullTimeRsePercent": 1.8,
      "allEmployeesSourceCell": "Data 2!O64173",
      "fullTimeSourceCell": "Data 2!G64173"
    },
    {
      "city": "Greater Perth",
      "allEmployeesWeeklyAud": 1500,
      "fullTimeWeeklyAud": 1923,
      "allEmployeesRsePercent": 1.7,
      "fullTimeRsePercent": 2,
      "allEmployeesSourceCell": "Data 2!O64176",
      "fullTimeSourceCell": "Data 2!G64176"
    },
    {
      "city": "Greater Hobart",
      "allEmployeesWeeklyAud": 1400,
      "fullTimeWeeklyAud": 1700,
      "allEmployeesRsePercent": 3.6,
      "fullTimeRsePercent": 2.2,
      "allEmployeesSourceCell": "Data 2!O64179",
      "fullTimeSourceCell": "Data 2!G64179"
    }
  ]
}