The personal tax picture.
Six ways to understand what Australians earn, claim and pay. Start with the picture, then explore the figures.
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Income after deductions, for the ATO’s taxable-individual population. Excludes non-taxable return lodgers. Assessed net tax, not Budget cash receipts. National totals stay fixed as you explore.
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Who pays income tax?
Choose four, five or ten national income groups, then explore their percentile bands.
How to read the groups: People are ordered from lowest to highest taxable income. The 50–60% band sits above the lowest-income half of taxpayers. Quartiles divide people into four groups, quintiles into five, deciles into ten and percentiles into 100. These percentages describe people’s position in the income distribution—not their tax rate. Men/Women changes the figures within the fixed national income groups. In the table, green bars show income share and gold bars show tax share. “Where do I fit?” always uses the national All population.
What do people earn?
Compare occupation groups or individual occupations, ranked by median taxable income. Use Chart or Table, or search for a particular occupation.
ATO Tables 15A/B/C. Occupations are reported on tax returns. Income may include part-year or part-time work and income outside the job. Salary/wage and taxable-income statistics have distinct reporting populations. Broad groups here are the published sub-major groups. Average salary/wage figures use the publisher’s own statistics at each occupation level; missing or suppressed source values remain unavailable. ATO publication ↗
What does it look like where I live?
How to read these figures
Figures cover All; this geography source does not offer a Men/Women split. Table 6B supplies the hierarchy, counts and totals. Average taxable income = taxable income or loss total ÷ its reporting count; average net tax = assessed net tax total ÷ its reporting count. These populations differ. Tax as % of income = matching total net tax ÷ total taxable income; a non-positive income denominator is unavailable.
Open a postcode row for its published medians from Table 25. Published Australian medians from Table 1B are available beneath the Australia row, with their population definition. State and regional medians are not supplied by the retained geographic tables and cannot be calculated by pooling postcode medians. Region means Statistical Area Level 4 (SA4). ATO assigns postcodes to regions using its published largest-weight method; actual boundaries can overlap. Unknown, overseas and pooled records remain included. Use the circled i beside a table label for exact lodger and reporting counts.
Postcode place names are a pinned Open G-NAF August 2026 reference (OD-GEO-POST01), derived from supported active address–locality associations. They are not a complete postal-service directory or historical ATO boundary reconstruction. Retired and unsupported addresses are excluded; missing matches remain explicit. Derived from G-NAF © Geoscape Australia, licensed by the Commonwealth under the Open G-NAF End User Licence Agreement. Source · Copyright and disclaimer. Extracted, joined and deduplicated by Open Data Programme; no Geoscape or government endorsement.
How has the picture changed?
Income, net tax and deductions across eleven income years, from 2013–14 to 2023–24.
Published assessed-return statistics, in nominal dollars. Tax rules and reporting populations can change; these are not constant-policy or same-person comparisons.
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How to read these figures
Average and median use each measure’s published reporting population. Counts differ between measures: the net-tax reporting count is not a count of everyone who lodged a return. Deductions statistics include zero/default-zero amounts in the total population. Tax as % of income divides matching national total assessed net tax by total taxable income or loss; it is neither an average individual rate nor a marginal tax rate. No sex split is available in this historical table.
Charts start at zero. Zoom to data narrows a chart’s vertical scale to show annual changes; a visible notice identifies the changed scale. Reset to zero restores the full context. Hover, focus or tap a point for its exact value; all figures are also in the annual table.
What do people claim?
Explore work-related expenses, donations, super contributions and other deductions. Open a category to see its available detail and annual figures.
How to read these figures
People can claim several deduction types, so category counts overlap. “Total deductions” is the publisher’s total, not the sum of this selected category list. Rental deductions reduce rental income and are not added again to these personal-deduction totals. Published medians are available for All; Men/Women averages use category totals divided by matching claimant counts. Table 1B’s overall deductions statistics include every lodger, including reported and default zeros; individual category statistics generally include non-zero claims.
Where does income come from?
Wages, investments, business, rental income and more. Open each source to see its detail and annual values.
How to read these figures
Reporting counts overlap: one person may have several income sources. These rows are a selection of published measures, not an exhaustive decomposition of the income total. Franking credits are separately assessable amounts; rent and business rows use net income or loss. No tax is allocated to individual income sources. Published medians are available for All only. Net-rent statistics include zero amounts where reported; other source-category statistics generally use non-zero values.
Definitions, sources and limits
Source: Australian Taxation Office, Taxation statistics 2023–24, Individuals Tables 1, 4, 6, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 25. Calculations and presentation by Open Data Programme. No ATO endorsement. Frozen release OD-PIT01-2023-24-0.1.0.
Assessed net tax is not Budget cash receipts. Taxable individuals differ from all tax-return lodgers. Tax as % of income always divides matching group totals, never averages or medians; a non-positive income denominator is unavailable. Men/Women labels correspond to published Male/Female source categories; ATO includes unknown/indeterminate sex in Male. Missing and suppressed values remain unavailable, and published zeros are retained.
ATO publication ↗Incorporates or developed using G-NAF © Geoscape Australia licensed by the Commonwealth of Australia under the Open Geo-coded National Address File (G-NAF) End User Licence Agreement. Postcode/locality reference: August 2026, OD-GEO-POST01-2026-08-1.0.0. Derived from supported active-address associations; street addresses are not displayed. The reference does not reconstruct historical ATO geography.
Historical interpretation sources: Personal super contributions: 2017 reform · Working-from-home claiming methods · Self-education threshold removal · Car-expense methods: 2015 reform · ATO annual report: tax-affairs label split