Retail assistant - personal and household goods salary in Australia
Retail assistant - personal and household goods in Australia earn a median of $35,268 a year, about $17.85 an hour.
What that is worth in US dollars
The first number is what the salary converts to if you moved the money. The second is what it actually buys in Australia. When those two disagree, the second one is the one that tells you how well someone lives on this wage.
How Australia measured this
Individual tax returns — includes part-year and part-time filers
Source: Australian Taxation Office, Taxation Statistics 2023-24, Table 15 · CC BY 4.0
What this salary borrows
On the rough serviceability multiple lenders use, someone earning $35,268 could borrow around $193,974 on their own, or about $387,948 on two incomes like it. That is a starting point, not an approval — your deposit, debts and the rate at the time move it a long way.
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Borrowing capacity shown at 5.5× income, before deposit. Not lending advice.
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