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http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/[email protected]/Lookup/6302.0main+features5Nov%202012

PRIVATE & PUBLIC SECTOR EARNINGS

The annual movement in Full-Time Adult Average Weekly Ordinary Time Earnings was 5.1% for the Private sector and 4.5% for the Public sector.

In November 2012, those employed in the Public sector had higher Full-Time Adult Average Weekly Ordinary Time Earnings than their Private sector counterparts, at $1,491.70 and $1,369.90 respectively (a difference of $121.80). The difference was more pronounced in the All Employees Total Earnings series in November 2012; employees in the Public sector on average earned $218.10 dollars per week more than those employed in the Private sector.


http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/wealth/salary-packaging-strategy-nets-a-lower-tax-rate/story-e6frgac6-1226090892516

SALARY packaging is not a rich person's game. In fact of the half-million Australian workers thought to use salary packaging, most are low to middle-income earners in charities, government and the public-health sector.