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Melbourne, do you earn enough?
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Melbourne, do you earn enough?

A data-driven deep dive by The Age into your job, your salary and your suburb – right across Victoria. There’s nearly 1 million combinations.

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Interactive: How the median full-time income for your job, in your suburb, compares

Is your job what you want to do, are you earning enough for the hours you work, or is it time to consider a new role or even profession?

  • by Craig Butt, Nathanael Scott, Daniel Carter and The Visual Stories Team
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Explained: How we compiled detailed data for 1000+ jobs

Explained: How we compiled detailed data for 1000+ jobs

How we built an interactive tour or every job in every suburb – from accountants to zookeepers, doctors, lawyers, shopkeepers and even goat farmers.

  • by Craig Butt
Which suburb has the most teachers? Dentists? CEOs? Where to find Melbourne’s worker tribes
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Which suburb has the most teachers? Dentists? CEOs? Where to find Melbourne’s worker tribes

Brighton has the most CEOs, Kew has the most GPs, the CBD has the most waiters and Tarneit has the most truck drivers. Find out where the most people who do the same job as you live in our tour of Melbourne’s worker tribes.

  • by Craig Butt
Brianna O’Connor
Do You Earn Enough?

Some jobs are so unusual, they’re not recognised by the ABS. Brianna’s is one of them

If you’ve never heard of aquarists, you’re not alone. They belong to one of Australia’s most unusual worker tribes.

  • by Gemma Grant and Craig Butt
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Essential service workers pushed to the fringes by housing crunch

Aged care workers, primary teachers, nurses, paramedics and police are being forced to Melbourne’s fringes by high housing costs, prompting warnings about worker shortages.

  • by Josh Gordon and Craig Butt

Original URL: https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/business/workplace/melbourne-do-you-earn-enough-20240707-p5jror.html