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Full-time employed Māori received an average weekly income from wages and salaries and self-employment of $537 per week compared to $675 for non-Māori full-time employed in the June 1997 quarter.
Among the full-time employed, a higher proportion of Māori than non-Māori were employed in occupations with lower median incomes, for example, as sales and service workers, plant and machinery operators and in elementary occupations. In contrast, a lower proportion of Māori were employed as legislators, administrators and managers, professionals or technicians and associate professionals, occupations with higher median incomes. Māori were one and a half times more likely than non-Māori to be employed as trades workers and plant and machinery operators than legislators, administrators and managers.
Māori have lower median incomes than non-Māori for all occupations, as the figure shows.
In 1996, the greatest differences were for those employed as professionals ($7,000), legislators and managers ($6,000) and technicians and associate professionals ($5,100). The smallest difference was for Māori employed as plant and machinery operators, who received a median income $1,000 lower than their non-Māori counterparts. Māori employed as legislators, administrators and managers had the highest median income of $35,000 and agriculture workers the lowest, at $17,600.
Māori employed full-time also have lower median incomes than their non-Māori counterparts with similar qualifications. The differences in the median incomes of Māori and non-Māori by qualification ranged from $2,700 for people with no qualification to $4,900 for those with a bachelor degree. The highest median income of Māori was received by those with a post-graduate qualification ($44,100), almost twice that of Māori with no qualification.
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