{
  "title": "Australian occupation-group hourly earnings: ABS August 2025",
  "description": "Eight published median hourly earnings estimates for major occupation groups. Official ABS survey results reproduced by Paycalcmate, without annualisation.",
  "publisher": "Paycalcmate",
  "author": "Dan",
  "sourcePublisher": "Australian Bureau of Statistics",
  "checkedAt": "2026-10-02",
  "temporalCoverage": "2025-08",
  "currency": "AUD",
  "variableMeasured": [
    "Median hourly earnings in main job (AUD per hour)"
  ],
  "method": "Manually transcribed all eight major occupation groups from the official HTML table, with no estimated or interpolated entries. The five skill-level rows are outside this table's scope.",
  "sourceTable": "Median hourly earnings in main job, by occupation and skill level",
  "sourceColumn": "Aug-25 ($)",
  "referencePeriod": "August 2025",
  "releaseDate": "2025-12-12",
  "classification": "ANZSCO version 1.2, major occupation groups",
  "population": "Employees in their main job, including full-time and part-time employees. Not all employed people, vacancies, contractor revenue or a full-time-only population.",
  "measure": "Median hourly earnings in main job, before tax, AUD per hour",
  "limitations": [
    "Medians are survey estimates for broad occupation groups, not guaranteed pay, legal wage minima, vacancies or exact rates for individual job titles.",
    "Hourly medians are not converted to annual salary because multiplying a group median hourly rate by assumed hours would not produce a measured annual median.",
    "Do not relabel an occupation as an industry; an accountant in a mine is a professional, not necessarily a machinery operator.",
    "The data period remains August 2025. Checking the release in October 2026 does not make these 2026 earnings."
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "label": "ABS Employee earnings, August 2025: occupation and hourly earnings table",
      "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": [
    {
      "occupation": "Professionals",
      "medianHourlyAud": 59.5
    },
    {
      "occupation": "Managers",
      "medianHourlyAud": 58.8
    },
    {
      "occupation": "Clerical and Administrative Workers",
      "medianHourlyAud": 41.4
    },
    {
      "occupation": "Technicians and Trades Workers",
      "medianHourlyAud": 39
    },
    {
      "occupation": "Machinery Operators and Drivers",
      "medianHourlyAud": 36.4
    },
    {
      "occupation": "Community and Personal Service Workers",
      "medianHourlyAud": 36.3
    },
    {
      "occupation": "Labourers",
      "medianHourlyAud": 32
    },
    {
      "occupation": "Sales Workers",
      "medianHourlyAud": 30.8
    }
  ]
}