SEEK lists the locations and occupations with six-figure earnings.

Employers in the Australian Capital Territory provided the highest salaries of all the states and territories, with average packages totaling $100,643 between August 2021 and July 2022.

With $89,426, New South Wales had $88,880, and the Northern Territory had $88,787, the ACT was much ahead of Western Australia, which is a mining powerhouse.

With an average advertised pay of $85,379, Victoria was in the bottom half of the states and territories, followed by Queensland ($82,025), South Australia ($80,410), and Tasmania ($80,187).

In one region of Australia, positions are listed with average wages in the six figures, and the mining sector is no longer the sector with the highest pay. The ACT, where federal employees are based in Canberra (a demonstration in Acton is seen in the image), had the highest full-time pay packages between August 2021 and July 2022, according to the employment website SEEK.

Information and communications technology had the highest average advertised income of any industry, coming in at $130,121, above even mining’s $126,783 average.

With employment available, consultants paid an average of $124,613, behind only engineering ($118,496), construction ($110,407), and legal professionals ($107,104).

Jobs in the government completed the list, paying an average of $100,014.

In the year leading up to July, advertised wages increased across all sectors by 4.1% as employers fought for talent in the context of low unemployment.

Although this was an improvement over the 2.6% wage price index in the year to June, it was still insufficient to keep up with inflation, which was running at 6.1% at that time.

The industry with the highest average advertised income was information and communications technology, with a $130,121 average, surpassing even mining’s $126,783 average (pictured are iron ore miners in Western Australia)

This means that even while the amount was nominally greater, people who changed occupations in search of better pay would have most likely experienced a fall in salaries in real terms (adjusted for inflation).

There were just two industries that advertised positions where pay rates have climbed faster than inflation: design and architecture had an increase of 7.3% and information and communications technology saw an increase of 6.2%.

The trades and services industry, which includes professionals like electricians, had growth of 6.3%.

Mining, resources, and energy all saw a rise of 5.7%.

Matt Cowgill, senior economist at SEEK, said that with unemployment at a 48-year low of 3.4% in July, businesses needed to pay well to attract people.

According to him, “this is not a scenario where certain regions of the nation move ahead much more swiftly than the others,” unlike prior labor market booms like the mining boom.

‘The labour market has been almost uniformly strong.

‘The pick-up in advertised salary growth has been broad-based.

‘Most types of jobs are seeing annual advertised salary growth greater than three per cent.’

The Australian Bureau of Statistics’ wages growth measures, however, has been stuck below three per cent since 2013 and both Treasury and the Reserve Bank are expecting inflation in 2022 to hit a 32-year high of 7.75 per cent.

A series of interest rate rises since May had been designed to reduce spending and therefore curb inflation, but Australians are still spending, with retail trade figures for July showing a 1.3 per cent increase – the highest in four months.

Retail workers, however, had the lowest average, full-time salary of $58,438 on the SEEK website, behind hospitality and tourism on $62,371 and call centre staff on $63,013.