WEEKLY wages for the average Australian worker rose by more than seven per cent last year, according to statistics released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
The average weekly earnings from all jobs was $926, as at August last year, a rise of $64 from August, 2006.
The average earnings from a person's main job was $916.
While the rise was across the board, the mean weekly wage for men still far outstrips the mean weekly wage for women.
Men averaged $1101 a week compared to $725 for women.
Tasmania, too, continues to lag behind the other states and territories, coming in at the bottom of the table with $785.
Looking at the earnings from a person's main job only, Tasmanians bring in an average $773 a week.
For all those deciding which industry to work in, the ABS statistics have confirmed that all the talk about the mining boom and the money to be made is correct.
The mining industry has the highest mean weekly earning for both full-time and part-time employees at $1772 and $1080 respectively.
It is the top-earning industry for both men and women too at $1831 and $1397 respectively.
Trailing at the bottom of the list was the accommodation and food services industry with full- time and part-time employees earning only $781 and $260 a week on average.
Construction, a strong industry on the North-West, brings its workers an above- average $1040 per week.
The year to 2007 was another year that has seen a large jump in mean weekly earnings.
The mean weekly earnings of employees in all jobs has gone from $585 in August 1997 to last August's $926, a 58 per cent increase.
The bureau said there were factors such as the number of hours worked and increases in the amount of part-time and casual employment which worked with the steady rise in wages to create the figures.