That's the average .. .?

Question

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22763101-661,00.html

AUSTRALIAN pay packets swelled almost 5 per cent in the year to August, with the average wage now $57,324

SO..... that;s the average .. without tell you how much I earn .. I can tell you I am WAY WAY WAY below .. AND then you have people who are WAY WAY WAY below what I earn ...

and John Howard and Peter Costello expect those below the average NOT to struggle with the increases in the cost of Petrol and gas, fresh food and interests rates .....

THEY HAVE NO IDEA .. and yet they expect us to vote them back in ?

what say you ??

t i a h <3 ~~ YES i guess they are doing a great job .. MAY I suggest for your viewing a show called "30 days Minimum Wage"

you can read about it here :
http://www.oprah.com/tows/slide/200604/20060414/slide_20060414_284_102.jhtml

THIS IS YOUR GREAT JOB the Liberal Party is doing ....
Taking Us Down THIS path ..

and THIS is ONE of the MANY reasons why HOWARD and his Party need to be removed.

THAT and the fact that they have NO IDEA re the environment!!

Answer 1

The more worthwhile measure is meadium income.

That is where you line up the richest to poorest and pick the guy in the middle and see what he (or she) earns.

And it's a lot less than the "mean" average, and it's a lot more representative of what the typical Australian earns.

It helps to know how one is being lied to.

Answer 2

Amen Jen!! I am also one of those, like you Jen, who lives below the 'average' Australian wage, and can afford relatively comfortably.
However, before, I came to my current job I was an apprentice mechanic. I was eighteen, father of a (then) two-year old daughter, living with my partner and renting a unit in North Brisbane together. I was earning the paltry sum of $6.50 an HOUR! The Howard government likes to go on and on about how Australian apprentices are getting great incentives, but it's not true! How are people meant to live like that? I recently saw a mate of mine qualify to be a mechanic, and after four years of training he ended up earning less than I am at my current job, and I have no qualifications, and have only been here for 4 months now. For clarification, I am an engineering cadet.
Apart from this, there are people out there who do magnificent jobs and are terribly underpaid, look at nurses, cleaners, etc. the blue-collar worker is the lifeblood of any country. America got the way it is because it undervalued the blue-collar worker, and introduced minimum wage standards. This is the principal reason I will not vote for John Howard. I don't want MY Australia to become HIS America.

Answer 3

I would say the majority of the people who work in Australia are below this figure. It's amazing how someone on excessive amounts of money which they don't need are so out of touch with those below what is considered an average wage. The idea of an average wage can quite easily be distorted when there are people on very high incomes. Of course people are quite easily decieved by politicians and the media.
Knowing how out of touch Howard and Costello are there is no way I would vote for them.

Answer 4

Jen, I earn way , way above the $57,000 but it affects my friends and families living in Oz. The average wage just equates to more Bulldust from Howard and Costello. More Garbage to tell everyone how good they are for the Country. Most Ozzies should be awake up to them by now, Otherwise there is no help for those that follow Howard. Hope he has his Trakkies packed and called a Cab for the 24th. I am casting my vote at the Australian Embassy here in Tripoli.
By the way, I have just noticed the Trolls have busy ticking the negative boxes on all answers. Guess once a Tracky Tacker, always a Tracky Tacker.

Answer 5

I nurse in a sub acute Surgical unit in a public hospital, I get payed for a 38 hour week and I still don't earn enough to pay off my HECS after 4 years.
This year I got $300 at tax time because I'm considered a low income earner.
Everything is going up around me except my wages and don't get me started on the conditions.

Answer 6

Vote em out and take their pension off them and pay them the same rate as unemployed person rate and then watch who does the squealing real quick, yes there are jobs there but most jobs wants people who have the skills under John Howard & Co the last 11 years have not done anything about this , and have been trying to say that Australians are better off under Liberal & Co.

Howard & Co " Your'e Fired "

Go Kevin

Answer 7

No matter which government is in, interest rates are going to rise, petrol prices are going to rise and fresh food is going to rise. They do not expect people to not struggle either. By claiming an average, does not mean YOU, or EVERYBODY earns that much. But today many more people are taking further education(university) and making more money than people were Years ago.

Also when Australia was under a Labor government, interest rates were more than double than what they are now.
Liberal have also introduced $34 BILLION tax cuts. So you'll save about $20 per week. How is that not going to help struggling families?

Liberal are doing a great job, yet to many people blame their problems on the government when Australian people are alot better off than nearly any other country.

Answer 8

Its the average because CEO's are on $30 million a year and many other earn millions a year. The reality is that the average wage is far below the $57000 a year.

It shows out of touch Howard is and how he is trying to convince we a better off than we actually are!!! But people still believe what comes out of his mouth!

Answer 9

The answerer who pointed out regarding the 'median' wage is quite right ~ the average is arrived at by counting CEO multi million dollar salaries and factory worker salaries too ~ mix them together, divide by the magic number and that's the 'average'.

In fact, most people are somewhere at the low end of the middle of a scale between the factory worker and the CEO ~ we can imagine a line which is narrow at both ends and bulges considerably in the middle.

If Howard and his mob are basing their calculations about people's spending capacity on this type of junk economics, they are more dangerous than I thought.

*Shudder*

PS: cavorim ~ are you living in England on Aussie money? I feel for you ~ a friend was telling me tonight how tough that is!!!

Answer 10

the CPI what a joke that is it takes every thing from a box of matches to a headlight for a rolls royce and guess what I purchased neither of those items in the last 6 months statistic manipulation strikes again