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People reading this page usually work these out too.
Put your salary in and see what actually lands in your account. This wage calculator uses the ATO's 2026-27 rates, then covers the three things that really are different in Victoria: the public holidays that trigger penalty rates, long service leave after 7 years, and the payroll tax your employer pays.
Checking a payslip? Compare the fortnightly figure above with the net pay on your slip — see how to read an Australian payslip.
On $106,137 — the average full-time wage in Victoria — you keep a little over three-quarters of it. Victoria has no state income tax; nobody in Australia does. Your income tax, Medicare levy and HECS-HELP repayment are set by the ATO and are identical whether you work in Melbourne, Geelong, Ballarat or Bendigo.
$106,137 is what a full-time adult in Victoria earns on average before overtime — ABS average weekly ordinary time earnings of $2,041.10 a week, May 2026, over 52 weeks.
| Gross salary | $106,137 |
| Income tax | − $22,361 |
| Medicare levy (2%) | − $2,123 |
| Take-home pay | $81,653 |
That is $1,570.25 a week, $3,140.50 a fortnight or $6,804.42 a month in the bank.
Effective tax rate 23.1%. The next dollar you earn is taxed at 32% — that is the marginal bracket plus the 2% Medicare levy.
Superannuation of $12,736 at 12% is paid by your employer on top, making the package $118,873.
With a HECS-HELP debt, a further $5,491 is withheld and take-home pay falls to $76,162 — $2,929.31 a fortnight.
The salary calculator above will redo this for your number. To see how the brackets stack up, read the 2026-27 income tax brackets, or model a salary sacrifice arrangement — many Victorian health and charity employers offer packaging that cuts taxable income.
Victoria sits just below the national average. Full-time adults here earn $2,041.10 a week before overtime — behind NSW and WA, a shade ahead of Queensland.
| VIC average weekly earnings | Per week | Per year |
|---|---|---|
| Full-time adults, ordinary hoursBase pay only — the figure this page's worked example uses | $2,041.10 | $106,137 |
| Full-time adults, including overtimeAdds overtime, so it runs ahead of the ordinary-time figure | $2,102.20 | $109,314 |
| Full-time adult menOrdinary time earnings | $2,140.90 | $111,327 |
| Full-time adult womenOrdinary time earnings | $1,889.60 | $98,259 |
| All employees, including part-timePulled down by part-time hours, not by lower rates | $1,507.80 | $78,406 |
Full-time adults in Victoria earn −2.0% less than the national average of $2,083.70 a week. Source: ABS Average Weekly Earnings, May 2026, released 13 August 2026 (Table 13, original series). Read on 28 August 2026.
If your pay is below the award floor rather than below the average, that is a different problem. Most Victorian private-sector employees are covered by federal modern awards — look yours up in the Australian award rates guide. Victorian state public sector staff (teachers, public hospital nurses, public servants) are usually on Victorian agreements instead.
Victoria is the only state that stops for a horse race and a football match. The Friday before the AFL Grand Final and Melbourne Cup Day are both gazetted public holidays here and nowhere else, which means a Melbourne hospitality or retail worker can bank two penalty-rate shifts a Sydney colleague never sees.
Victoria publishes 14 public holidays for 2026, and 7 of them are not observed Australia-wide. Those are the days a worker one state over does not get paid a penalty rate for. The days marked VIC only below are the difference.
| 2026 date | Public holiday | Observed |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday 1 January | New Year's Day | Nationwide |
| Monday 26 January | Australia Day | Nationwide |
| Monday 9 March | Labour Day | VIC only |
| Friday 3 April | Good Friday | Nationwide |
| Saturday 4 April | Saturday before Easter Sunday | VIC only |
| Sunday 5 April | Easter Sunday | VIC only |
| Monday 6 April | Easter Monday | Nationwide |
| Saturday 25 April | Anzac Day | Nationwide |
| Monday 8 June | King's Birthday | VIC only |
| Friday 25 September | Friday before the AFL Grand Final | VIC only |
| Tuesday 3 November | Melbourne CupSome regional areas in Victoria hold the Melbourne Cup public holiday on a different date. | VIC only |
| Friday 25 December | Christmas Day | Nationwide |
| Saturday 26 December | Boxing Day | Nationwide |
| Monday 28 December | Additional public holiday for Boxing Day | VIC only |
Source: Fair Work Ombudsman, 2026 public holidays, read 28 August 2026. Regional and part-day variations apply — check with Victoria for the list that covers your town.
Why the VIC list matters to your pay
Under most modern awards, working a public holiday attracts a penalty of 200% to 250% of your base rate, and if you do not work you are still entitled to be absent without losing pay. You are entitled to the public holidays where you are based for work, not where you happen to be standing on the day.
Work out what a holiday shift is actually worth with the overtime and penalty rate calculator, or read the penalty rates guide.
This is where Victoria is genuinely more generous than most of the country. The Long Service Leave Act 2018 (Vic) sets the qualifying period at 7 years, not the 10 years used in NSW, Queensland, WA, SA, Tasmania and the NT.
Victoria has one of the shortest qualifying periods in the country: 7 years of continuous service with one employer. Leave accrues at one week for every 60 weeks of service — about 0.866 of a week a year, so roughly 6.1 weeks by the 7-year mark. Once you pass 7 years the full accrued balance is paid out however the employment ends, including resignation and redundancy.
| Governing law | Long Service Leave Act 2018 (Vic) |
| Service before you can take leave | 7 years |
| Leave at that point | 6.07 weeks |
| After that | continued accrual at one week for every 60 weeks of continuous service |
| Pro-rata payment when the job ends | From 7 years |
| Who to ask | Wage Inspectorate Victoria |
Long service leave is paid at your ordinary rate, so the calculator at the top of this page tells you what a week of it is worth after tax. A lump sum paid out when you leave is taxed differently — see the final pay calculator. Source: Wage Inspectorate Victoria, read 28 August 2026.
Coming soon: VIC long service leave calculator
We are building a calculator for each state's long service leave rules. The Victoria long service leave calculator will work out your accrued weeks and what they are worth after tax. Until it lands, use the leave calculator or go straight to Wage Inspectorate Victoria.
Does VIC payroll tax come out of your pay? No.
It is a cost of hiring you, not a deduction from you. Once an employer's Australian wage bill passes $1,000,000 a year it starts paying 4.85% to the Victoria revenue office on the excess. That never appears on your payslip and never reduces your gross salary. If you see a deduction you cannot account for, the full employer-side detail is further down this page.
The same goes for WorkSafe premiums and the Mental Health and Wellbeing Surcharge: employer costs, not payslip deductions. The detail is in the employer section below. What does come out of your pay is set out in the payslip guide.
Income tax is identical everywhere in Australia. What changes is the public holiday calendar, the long service leave Act and the payroll tax your employer pays.
Nothing in this section affects an employee's take-home pay. It is here because it is the cost of employing someone in Victoria, and because employers ask.
VIC payroll tax is a state tax paid by employers at a rate of 4.85% on wages exceeding a $1,000,000 annual threshold, administered by the State Revenue Office Victoria.
Payroll tax does not reduce your personal take-home pay. Employers pay it directly to the state government based on their total Australian wage bill. Regional Victorian employers benefit from a reduced rate of 1.2125%, encouraging businesses to operate outside Melbourne. The threshold increases to $1,000,000 from 1 July 2025. Victoria also applies the "Mental Health and Wellbeing Surcharge" on employers with national payrolls exceeding $10 million.
Victorian payroll tax sits in the middle range nationally. Queensland and WA offer higher thresholds, while the ACT charges a higher rate. The following table compares payroll tax across all 8 states and territories for FY2025-26.
| State/Territory | Rate | Annual Threshold |
|---|---|---|
| Victoria | 4.85% | $1,000,000 |
| New South Wales | 5.45% | $1,200,000 |
| Queensland | 4.75% | $1,300,000 |
| Western Australia | 5.50% | $1,000,000 |
| South Australia | 4.95% | $1,500,000 |
| Tasmania | 4.00% | $1,250,000 |
| Australian Capital Territory | 6.75% | $1,750,000 |
| Northern Territory | 5.50% | $2,500,000 |
Victoria has the lowest threshold of any state, meaning more employers cross the payroll tax trigger point. Explore how employer costs differ using the Employer Cost Calculator. Compare VIC to the Pay Calculator NSW or Pay Calculator QLD for interstate salary comparisons.
Premiums are set by industry risk classification and are paid by the employer. An employee never contributes to them and never sees them on a payslip.
Income tax, the Medicare levy, HECS-HELP and superannuation are calculated with the site's federal engine for 2026-27; there are no state-specific individual income taxes in Australia, so the result is the same in every state. Victorian earnings come from the ABS Average Weekly Earnings release for May 2026 (Table 13b, original series). Public holidays come from the Fair Work Ombudsman's 2026 list, and long service leave from the Long Service Leave Act 2018 as explained by Wage Inspectorate Victoria. State payroll tax and WorkSafe data are sourced from the State Revenue Office Victoria and WorkSafe VIC, but these only outline employer obligations and do not affect employee net pay.
Last verified: 28 August 2026. Our content is based on the latest information from official Australian government sources.