Different Wage Incomes in Australia

Wage incomes differ dramatically from person to person due to reasons such as their income groups, occupational groups, age, gender and cultural background. Over time common trends in the distribution of income from work are created. Employers also use non-wage outcomes for occupations as a bonus or incentive to encourage productivity and decrease wages. A more equitable distribution from work is debatable as there are many advantages and disadvantages for this issue.
The difference in wage incomes is influenced by several factors such as income groups, occupational groups, age, gender and cultural background. Income and occupational groups influenced by reason such as education levels, training and skills, for example the highest paid occupations such as managerial/administrative positions receive on average $ 1, 848.90 p/w in 2011, whilst the lowest paid occupations such as labourers and clerks received on average of $ 578.60 p/w in 2011. Age is an important factor in determining income because your age will often reflect your knowledge and experience levels which are influences which can determine your income. For example the period in which men earned the highest earning was between the ages 35-54 whilst women earned their highest earning between the ages of 25-44. Gender has always been a controversial and often discriminative system of determining incomes, there is a major difference in income for casual, part time, and full time work which has the same or similar expectation of duties, for example Male employers accounted for 77.7% of full time position with an average weekly total cash earnings of $1,404.40. Part-time male employees had average weekly total cash earnings of $454.50 and Female full-time employment was 48.8% and part-time 51.2% and their average weekly total cash earnings were $1,167.70 for full-time females and $503.80 for part-time females. Cultural background has a significant impact on employment because there are limitations and less...