Highest earning occupations - Pilot not amongst them.
Highest earning occupations - Pilot not amongst them.
Australia's highest earning occupations have been listed by the ATO with no mention of pilot there.
Australian Tax Office names Delungra as country's lowest-earning area, Sydney eastern suburbs identified as highest - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). Scroll to page 4 in the link.
Perhaps the low incomes of G/A pilots drag the whole group down, possibly a seperate category of Airline Pilots would have made the list as an A320/B737 Captain would make the bottom half around the mining engineer level.
Australian Tax Office names Delungra as country's lowest-earning area, Sydney eastern suburbs identified as highest - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). Scroll to page 4 in the link.
Perhaps the low incomes of G/A pilots drag the whole group down, possibly a seperate category of Airline Pilots would have made the list as an A320/B737 Captain would make the bottom half around the mining engineer level.
Maybe the ATO can explain how the 'average' salary of Bellevue hill is $143 000 yet the average house price is circa $3 600 000 and the average yearly rent is nearly $95 000.
So if you are renting your whole salary after tax is almost equivalent to your rent alone. And they are 'averages'?
And yes I would suggest that the Regional and Charter Salaries would lower the
pilot average salaries.
The MD and CEO 'average' is a very low ball average.
So if you are renting your whole salary after tax is almost equivalent to your rent alone. And they are 'averages'?
And yes I would suggest that the Regional and Charter Salaries would lower the
pilot average salaries.
The MD and CEO 'average' is a very low ball average.
I'm still laughing at surgeons $350,000 odd. Try $2 million plus. Hang on they are not PAYE are they so they can use trusts and companies!!! Silly me.
Surgeons and lawyers etc don't pay tax, they simply decide what they want to earn and set their fees so that they are left with that amount after passing on some of your money to the ATO.
Those on wages and salaries pay their tax for them.
Those on wages and salaries pay their tax for them.
he 'average' salary of Bellevue hill is $143 000 yet the average house price is circa $3 600 000 and the average yearly rent is nearly $95 000.
So if you are renting your whole salary after tax is almost equivalent to your rent alone. And they are 'averages'?
So if you are renting your whole salary after tax is almost equivalent to your rent alone. And they are 'averages'?
Beware of averages.
I hope we're not complaining about jet RPT airline F/Os only getting $100K +a year and Captains only getting $200K + a year!?
The ATO figures are taxable income not gross income.
I see the surgeons in Tasmania averaged a taxable income of $468,384. Looks like an opportunity for H R Block in Tasmania !
I see the surgeons in Tasmania averaged a taxable income of $468,384. Looks like an opportunity for H R Block in Tasmania !
Ah, bless the Low Wage Generation (you brought this on yourselves....and thanks very much for that!)
I'm looking forward to the next gen of little prix who'll gladly fly a jet for free.
I'm looking forward to the next gen of little prix who'll gladly fly a jet for free.
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As a surgeon (in the Aussie public system) I assure you I don't earn $2,000,000.. or even close to it. In fact, I earned more (on a per hour basis) working as an unskilled office assistant in my university holidays, without even correcting for inflation, let alone my >10 years training. But I do work a lot.. (112 hours last week and this is currently my 34th straight day on) so it adds up. And I've personally paid >$25k this year in mandatory training, licencing and insurance costs this year :P
A senior colleague of mine (who is a fully qualified specialist) works five days a week and makes about $1200 a fortnight. We're not all rolling in it! Usually surgeons only rake it in when working private practice in their 40s/50s, and by then, they're playing catchup having effectively worked for peanuts for 20 years.
Not after sympathy. I think pilots (based on discussions here) are woefully underpaid (especially in GA), but it doesn't mean that others, like surgeons, are all swimming in cash. As always, there are those who roll in it, and those who are struggling.
A senior colleague of mine (who is a fully qualified specialist) works five days a week and makes about $1200 a fortnight. We're not all rolling in it! Usually surgeons only rake it in when working private practice in their 40s/50s, and by then, they're playing catchup having effectively worked for peanuts for 20 years.
Not after sympathy. I think pilots (based on discussions here) are woefully underpaid (especially in GA), but it doesn't mean that others, like surgeons, are all swimming in cash. As always, there are those who roll in it, and those who are struggling.
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What are you people smoking? This is a list published by the ATO, as far as I am concerned pilots would be better off in the lowest 10 professions. Your only asking for trouble being high up, so enjoy it. This is a hit list of their next audit campaign, nothing more nothing less. Statistics mean nothing audits mean everything....enjoy it.