And they are the highest paid for least work in the country: ---------------------------------------- The average Canberran is being paid Australia’s highest salary for the shortest working week in the country, according to a new income and wealth report. AMP and the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling said today workers in the capital average 37 hours and 42 minutes a week in the office.
It is about 2 1/2 hours less than the country’s longest working week, recorded in the Northern Territory and Western Australia at more than 40 hours.