ABS Australian Industry · 19 years to 2024-25

Every industry in Australia.

Size is how many people work there, colour is pay against the national average. Tap a circle.

people employed pay: below average → above
18 industries · k jobs
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Who this is for

Find your row. It tells you where to start.

Choosing a first career Pay is not the whole picture, and chapter 01 shows why. 01 · 04 · 06
Arriving from overseas How this economy is actually built, and where the work sits. 02 · 03 · 07
Changing direction Whether an industry is really growing, and what the job types inside it pay. 05 · 08 · 10
Advising someone else Evidence you can cite, and the gaps stated plainly. all eleven
The story · eleven chapters

Eleven questions. The charts answer them.

Your turn

Look up your own industry.

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What this data does not show.

Banking and insurance are missing

Only the auxiliary part of finance is collected, about 181 thousand jobs. Banks, insurers and investment funds are not in this data at all. If finance is your target, nothing here describes it.

Public hospitals and public schools are excluded

Education, health care, and public administration appear here in their private-sector form only. The real workforces in those three are far larger than the numbers on this site.

Employment is a headcount on one day

Everyone counted on 30 June counts as one person, whether they work five hours a week or fifty. It is not full-time equivalent, and it says nothing about hours, security or whether a job is casual.

Some series have holes in them

of series have years suppressed by the ABS for confidentiality, almost all of them in profit and purchase figures for small job types. Nothing on this site draws a trend line across a gap.