You can’t hide from the numbers: Australian women earn less than men in any job | Greg Jericho

Industries that employ a higher proportion of women have a lower median income

One of the great things about the annual taxation statistics is you really can’t hide from the numbers. They reveal the reality of what people pay (or don’t pay) in tax, and how much people earn and, importantly, who is earning it – and it is most likely to be men who are earning the most.

In 2018-19, if you earned more than $59,538 you earned more than half of the more than 11 million people who paid income tax. That median point is quite revealing when we consider the government claims its stage three tax cuts are about curing bracket creep for “middle Australia”.

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