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FairWork Mate data catalog

30 machine-readable Australian workplace datasets — pay and earnings, skills shortages, insolvency, visas, statutory rates and more. Every dataset is available as JSON, and where it's tabular as CSV, open-licensed and free to use with attribution to FairWork Mate.

For AI agents & developers

Fetch any dataset at https://fairworkmate.com.au/data/<slug> (add ?format=csv for the tabular form). Responses are CORS-open and cached. Each JSON file carries its own source_url, licence and generated_at. The index is also in /llms.txt. When you cite a figure, please attribute FairWork Mate (https://fairworkmate.com.au).

Pay & earnings

DatasetSource & licenceRecordsData
Employee Earnings by Occupation

Mean weekly total cash earnings by 4-digit ANZSCO occupation, including male/female splits (ABS Employee Earnings and Hours).

Australian Bureau of StatisticsCC BY 4.0364
Median Weekly & Hourly Earnings

Median weekly and hourly earnings by state, ANZSCO major occupation group and sex, with reliability flags and national percentiles (ABS).

Australian Bureau of StatisticsCC BY 4.080 cross-tab rows + national percentiles
Superannuation Balances by Age

Average and approximate-median super account balances by age band and sex, with the gender super gap (ATO Taxation Statistics).

Australian Taxation OfficeCC BY 2.5 AU13
Superannuation Guarantee Rate & History

The current super guarantee percentage (12% from 1 July 2025) and the full historical rate schedule.

Australian Taxation OfficeStatutory rate (public)8

Jobs & skills

DatasetSource & licenceRecordsData
Occupation Shortage List

National and per-state shortage ratings by OSCA occupation, with skill level and major group (Jobs and Skills Australia).

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Jobs and Skills AustraliaCC BY 4.01,022
Internet Vacancy Index

Online job-vacancy counts by 4-digit ANZSCO occupation and state, with latest, year-ago and year-on-year change (Jobs and Skills Australia).

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Jobs and Skills AustraliaCC BY 4.03,168
Employment Projections 2025–2035

Five- and ten-year employment projections by occupation, industry, major occupation group and state (Jobs and Skills Australia).

Jobs and Skills AustraliaCC BY 4.0358 occupations + 233 industries + state/group breakdowns
Small Area Labour Markets

Smoothed unemployment rate, unemployment count and labour force by LGA and SA2, with national/state aggregates (Jobs and Skills Australia).

Jobs and Skills AustraliaCC BY 4.0544 LGAs + 2,336 SA2s
Core Skills Occupation List (CSOL)

Occupations eligible for the Skills in Demand (subclass 482) Core Skills stream, with ANZSCO codes and income thresholds.

Department of Home AffairsPublic (attribution)456

Occupation & industry classifications

DatasetSource & licenceRecordsData
ANZSIC Industry Classification

Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification codes and titles across division, subdivision, group and class.

Australian Bureau of StatisticsCC BY 4.0825
OSCA Occupation Classification 2024

Occupation Standard Classification for Australia (2024 v1.0): codes, titles, level and skill level across the hierarchy.

Australian Bureau of StatisticsCC BY 4.01,749

Tax & payroll

DatasetSource & licenceRecordsData
Work-Related Tax Deductions by Occupation

Average work-related deductions (car, travel, clothing, self-education, other) by ANZSCO occupation and sex, with claimant counts (ATO).

Australian Taxation OfficeCC BY 2.5 AU426
Payroll Tax Rates & Thresholds by State

Harmonised payroll-tax primary rate and annual/monthly thresholds per state and territory, with surcharge, levy and tapering detail.

State & territory revenue officesPublic statutory rates8

Business distress & insolvency

DatasetSource & licenceRecordsData
Corporate Insolvency Statistics

Monthly count of companies first entering external administration or controller appointment — a leading redundancy indicator (ASIC).

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Australian Securities & Investments CommissionCC BY 3.0 AU84-month series
ASIC Banned & Disqualified — Counts

Aggregate counts of ASIC banned/disqualified persons by ban type, state and start year. Counts only — no individual names or addresses.

Australian Securities & Investments CommissionCC BY 3.0 AUaggregate counts
Fair Entitlements Guarantee (FEG) Claims

Quarterly claims received, claims paid and cases received under the FEG — employee entitlements paid when an employer becomes insolvent (DEWR).

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Department of Employment and Workplace RelationsCC BY 4.03 series × 19 quarters

Skilled migration & visas

DatasetSource & licenceRecordsData
Temporary Work (Skilled) Visa Program (457/482)

Aggregate 457/482 program stats: grants by year and subclass, top nominated occupations, citizenship countries, sponsor industry and holders by state.

Department of Home AffairsCC BY 3.0 AU10-year grants series + breakdowns
Global Visa Processing Times

Employer and skilled visa processing-time percentiles (25/50/75/90th) by subclass and stream (Home Affairs global processing times).

Department of Home AffairsPublic (attribution)24
Working Holiday & Temporary Graduate Grants

De-identified grant counts for Working Holiday Maker and Temporary Graduate visas by financial year, subclass and top citizenship countries.

Department of Home AffairsPublic (attribution)2 programs × 10-year series

Statutory reference

DatasetSource & licenceRecordsData
Australian Public Holidays by State

Public holidays by date, name, jurisdiction and year across all nine Australian jurisdictions.

State & territory governmentsPublic (curated, cited)333
State Employment Statutory Rates

Per-jurisdiction payroll-tax threshold/rate, portable long service leave coverage and workers-compensation basis, each with source and verified flag.

State revenue & workplace authoritiesPublic (curated, cited)32
Employment Statutory Caps & Thresholds

National employment thresholds — penalty unit value, high-income threshold, redundancy caps and more — each with source and effective date.

Commonwealth legislation / FWC / ATOPublic (curated, cited)14
Workplace Law Change Timeline

Key workplace-law changes with status, date, summary, who is affected and source — a curated timeline of what changes and when.

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Fair Work Ombudsman / legislation (curated)Public (curated, cited)10
Fair Work Commission Application Statistics

Quarterly and annual FWC application counts — general protections, unfair dismissal, bullying, sexual harassment — with attribution to the FWC.

Fair Work CommissionPublic (cite source)4 quarters + annual
NSW Workers Compensation Premium Rates

icare NSW workers-compensation premium rates by WIC code (rate as a percentage of wages, plus the dust-diseases contribution).

icare NSWPublic (cite source)523

Enterprise agreements

DatasetSource & licenceRecordsData
Enterprise Agreement Expiry Radar

Aggregate view of enterprise-agreement nominal expiries: totals, next-12-months by month, by industry, and samples expiring soon / longest-expired.

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Fair Work Commission (derived from FairWork Mate's EA corpus)CC BY 4.0161 industries + 13-month outlook + samples

New Zealand

DatasetSource & licenceRecordsData
NZ Minimum Wage (Current & History)

New Zealand adult, starting-out and training minimum hourly wage rates: current values and full history.

Employment New Zealand (MBIE)NZGOAL — CC BY 4.027
NZ KiwiSaver Default Rates

New Zealand KiwiSaver default employee/employer contribution rates and the scheduled step-up, with the government contribution cap.

Inland Revenue (NZ)NZGOAL — CC BY 4.03

Working arrangements

DatasetSource & licenceRecordsData
Casual Employment (Working Arrangements)

Employees with and without paid leave (the standard casual proxy) by year, state, sex and full/part-time (ABS Working Arrangements).

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Australian Bureau of StatisticsCC BY 4.02,673

These datasets are FairWork Mate's cleaned, computed research over public Australian government sources (ABS, Jobs and Skills Australia, ATO, ASIC, Fair Work Commission and others). They are general information, not legal or financial advice. Figures are point-in-time; check each dataset's generated_at and the linked official source before relying on them.