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Statistics New Zealand produces a number of income and wage measures that are useful for different purposes. However, the sheer number, and at times incomparability, of the measures can cause confusion. This user guide clarifies which questions or situations the measures are best applied to as well as their design and purpose.
See the following flowchart to help you decide which wage or income measure to use: Statistics New Zealand wage and income measures flowchart (PDF, 19KB).
For more details see the full user guide: User Guide for Statistics New Zealand's Wage and Income Measures (PDF, 217KB).
Frequently asked questions
Wages, salaries and self-employed earnings
What is the average weekly or hourly wage?
How much have wages and salaries increased?
What is the average wage by region?
How much do the self-employed earn?
Can I find out how much people in specific occupations earn?
Income
What is the average annual household income?
What are the main sources of income for New Zealanders?
What is the distribution of income in New Zealand
by ethnicity, sex, age or qualifications?
How much income do people receive by region?
How much income do people receive by smaller regions
(below regional council level) or by region, sex, ethnicity or qualifications?
What is the movement of people between income levels across time?
How much income do people not in paid employment receive?
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Links to wage and income measures
Job-level measures
Quarterly Employment Survey
Labour Cost Index (All Labour Costs)
Labour Cost Index (Salary and Wage Rates)
Linked Employer-Employee Dataset (LEED): quarterly job-level release
Person-level measures
New Zealand Income Survey
Linked Employer-Employee Dataset (LEED): annual person-level release
Household Economic Survey
Survey of Family Income and Employment
Census of Population and Dwellings
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