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Am I middle class in Australia?

Enter your household income after tax. See if you're inside the 75% to 200% band, and how far from each edge.

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Data: Australian Taxation Office — Taxation Statistics 2022-23, Table 16: Percentile distribution of taxable individuals, by taxable income, sex and state/territory · income year 2022, survey wave 2023

Income distribution in Australia

Each bar is a slice of Australia households. The cyan marker shows where you sit; the flags below mark the median and the 75% and 200% band edges.

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5k10k20k30k50k75k100k125k150k200k250k300k400k500kMedianAUD 69,16175% of medianAUD 51,8712× medianAUD 138,322
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What the numbers actually say

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Middle class in Australia: AUD 51,871 to AUD 138,322 a year.
That's 75% to 200% of the median of AUD 69,161, the OECD's definition.
About 53% of households in Australia sit inside the band.
Estimated from the same published income distribution this page runs on.
The OECD middle class shrank from 64% to 61%.
Between the mid-1980s and mid-2010s, roughly one percentage point per decade.
70% of boomers were middle class in their twenties.
For millennials at the same age it was 60%, per the OECD's 2019 report.
The middle class has rungs: 75%, 100%, 150% and 200% of the median.
In Australia: a floor of AUD 51,871, a midpoint of AUD 69,161, a ceiling of AUD 138,322.
Twice the median is not "rich". It's the edge of "middle".
Above AUD 138,322 the OECD stops calling you middle class and starts calling you upper income.
Frequently Asked Questions

Individual taxable income before tax · Total annual taxable income (gross income minus allowable deductions, before tax) for individual Australian taxpayers — i.e. people who lodged a tax return for the 2022-23 financial year and had positive taxable income. Source: ATO Taxation Statistics 2022-23, Table 16. Coverage: ~12.6 million Australian taxable individuals; people with zero/negative taxable income and non-lodgers are not included. Note: this is per-individual gross income, not equivalised household income, so it is not directly comparable with the household-based figures used for European countries on this site.

"Middle class" on this page follows the OECD definition from Under Pressure: The Squeezed Middle Class (2019): households earning between 75% and 200% of the national median income, with lower-middle (75-100%), mid (100-150%) and upper-middle (150-200%) rungs. The cut-offs of AUD 51,871 and AUD 138,322 are derived arithmetically from the median shown in the source data; they are not percentile thresholds published by the statistical office.

Data: Australian Taxation Office — Taxation Statistics 2022-23, Table 16: Percentile distribution of taxable individuals, by taxable income, sex and state/territory · income year 2022, survey wave 2023

OECD (2019), Under Pressure: The Squeezed Middle Class

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