Australia
Latest Average Wage
−1.4% · 5 years
$72,018
Country Comparison
Australia vs Israel
Compare average wages, long-term wage changes and eight consumer price categories using OECD data.
At a Glance
Australia
vs
Israel
$72,0182025
Latest Average Wage
Australia +25.4%
(vs Israel)
$57,4262025
−1.4%2025
5-Year Wage Change
Israel +7.3 pts
(vs Australia)
+5.8%2025
+2.2%2025
10-Year Wage Change
Israel +17.6 pts
(vs Australia)
+19.8%2025
92.72024
Overall Price Level
Israel +0.4 index points
(vs Australia)
93.12024
Wages are PPP-adjusted average annual wages; price levels use the United States reference of 100. Years shown are each country's latest reported observation.
How Wages Have Changed
Follow PPP-adjusted average annual wages in constant prices across both economies.
USD PPP, constant prices · missing years shown as gaps, never interpolated
Israel
Latest Average Wage
+5.8% · 5 years
$57,426
Wage Milestones
Australia
10 Years Ago
$70,450 (2015)
Historical Peak
$73,870 (2021)
Latest Wage
$72,018 (2025)
Israel
10 Years Ago
$47,933 (2015)
Historical Peak
$57,426 (2025)
Latest Wage
$57,426 (2025)
Compare Everyday Price Levels
See how eight consumer price categories compare with the United States reference value of 100.
United States = 100 · Differences shown in index points
Australia (AUS)Israel (ISR)
Overall
−0.4 index points
100
92.7vs93.1
Food
−23.0 index points
100
101vs124
Clothing
−36.5 index points
100
69.5vs106
Housing
−2.1 index points
100
91.8vs93.9
Health
+3.6 index points
100
86.9vs83.3
Transport
−9.7 index points
100
99.3vs109
Recreation
−4.0 index points
100
95.2vs99.2
Restaurants & Accommodation
−15.0 index points
100
115vs130
What Stands Out
01
Latest Wage Gap
Australia's latest average wage is $72,018 for 2025, about 25.4% higher than Israel's $57,426 for 2025 — computed straight from the two reported values. Per year, that works out to roughly $14,593 on the shared purchasing-power basis.
02
Stronger Recent Trend
On the latest one-year change, Australia shows the stronger movement at +1.1%, against +0.5% for Israel. The five-year horizon reverses the ordering — Australia at −1.4% and Israel at +5.8% — so the latest year is not the whole story. Both percentages are real, PPP-adjusted changes from the reported wage series.
03
Largest Price Gap
Clothing shows the widest price gap of the comparable categories in 2024: 69.5 for Australia against 106 for Israel. Israel sits on the higher side of that 36.5-point spread; Australia reads 36.5 index points lower on the US=100 scale. The gap is stated in index points, which are not interchangeable with percentages.
04
Closest Price Category
The closest category is Overall: Australia reads 92.7 and Israel 93.1 for 2024 — effectively the same relative price level on the US=100 scale. The next closest is Housing at 2.1 index points apart. Closeness here describes the index readings only, not the baskets behind them.
Understanding the Comparison
Wage Position
Australia holds a clear wage lead in this pairing: $72,018 for 2025, against Israel's $57,426 for 2025. The higher figure exceeds the lower one by 25.4% in relative terms — a percentage calculated from the two reported values — or roughly $14,593 a year. No extra conversion is needed here: each figure is already a purchasing-power-adjusted annual amount in constant prices. For scale, neither series has moved by that much within any single reported year, so the gap is structural rather than the product of one unusual observation. Over ten years Australia recorded +2.2% and Israel +19.8%, so the two series have been moving in the same long-term direction.
Wage Direction
Opposite directions define this pairing, and they pull the two wage levels closer together. Australia shows no single direction across horizons: +1.1% over one year against −1.4% over five. Israel sits at the highest point of its series — $57,426 in 2025 is also the historical peak, with a ten-year change of +19.8%. The side gaining in real terms is Israel, the lower of the two latest wage levels (+5.8% over five years against −1.4%), so on these measures the two are closing in rather than drifting apart. Each percentage is a real, PPP-adjusted change; nominal pay movements are outside what this dataset reports.
Price Profile
Australia's overall consumer price level for 2024 reads 92.7, and Israel's reads 93.1, each measured against the United States reference of 100. One side of this pairing dominates the price profile: Israel sits higher in 6 of the 8 comparable categories. Clothing separates the two most: Australia reads 69.5 and Israel 106, 36.5 index points apart. The two sit closest in Overall (92.7 versus 93.1), only 0.4 index points apart. Counted against the US reference of 100, 2 of Australia's 8 reported categories sit above the line, against 4 of Israel's 8. These are index values for 2024, not currency amounts; categories without a reported value on either side are left out of the comparison.
Wage and price data should not be combined into a verdict on which country is better to live in.
