Rise in Australia job vacancies
15 August 2015 by News Desk
There has been a rise in the number of job vacancies in Australia but pay differences between men and women remain.
Total job vacancies in May 2015 were 155,700, an increase of 1.9% from February 2015. The number of job vacancies in the private sector was 142,900, an increase of 2.1% while job vacancies in the public sector totalled 12,800, a figure that has remained flat since February, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
But the figures are positive news for migrants and those seeking to work down under; there remains a marked difference between wages and salaries paid to men and women.
Across the country as a whole, average weekly pay for men is $1,591.60 while the average for women is $1,309.30 – a difference of $282.30.
Pay is fairest in South Australia which has a gap of just $151.20. And while Tasmanian women pocket the country’s lowest weekly pay at $1,187.30, the gender difference is $159.60. But in Western Australia there is a $483.80 per week gap between average full-time earnings of men and women in the state where both genders earn the highest wages.
In South Australia, men earn an average $1,401.20, while women earn $1,250.
In Tasmania men earn an average $1,346.90, while women earn $1,187.30
In Victoria men earn an average $1,474.30 while women earn $1,273.10
In Queensland men earn an average $1,552.60 while women earn $1,273.40
In Northern Territory men earn an average $1,639.80 while women earn $1,343.80
In New South Wales men earn an average $1,638.40 while women earn $1,321.80
In Western Australia men earn an average $1,857.60 while women earn $1,373.80
