Median Income (Pre Tax) in NZ by Age group
Earnings in NZ are very varied and some of the very high values you see on here are not typical. No matter where you are at in earnings I hope you find a path to reach the goals you have.
Copied from Linked page of Luke Kemeys (CA)
The median income of a working New Zealander is now $68,120 per year.
Stats NZ split it out per age group.
This sort of data is comparison porn for a lot of people.
But it's worth understanding what you're looking at.
Median weekly earnings ⬇️
The middle point of the distribution of weekly earnings from paid employment. For example if 99 people receive wage and salary earnings, the median weekly earnings are the weekly earnings of the 50th person - when people are ranked by weekly earnings.
So effectively half earn more than the median and half earn less.What is important to remember is that everyone has different wants in life and individually we need to understand how much we need to earn in order to be able to make ends meet or get closer to your goals.
FYI - the data is before tax too. $68,120 is $52,574.38 after tax, ACC and KiwiSaver.