NZL · New Zealand
Average pay by industry in New Zealand
NZL · 22 industries · 2022
$119,520NZD/YR
Financial and insurance activities pays the most of any industry in New Zealand — $119,520 a year, about 4.2× Activities of households as employers at $28,560.
SOURCE·Stats NZ — Household Labour Force Survey (income)·CC BY 4.0·REVIEWED JUN 2025 YEAR
How New Zealand publishes this cut, and what twelve times a month means
- Stats NZ publishes this breakdown as part of Household Labour Force Survey (income), classification ECO_ISIC4, 2022.
- The source figures are monthly; they are multiplied by twelve here so they sit on the same annual basis as the rest of the site, and every page says so.
- They cover employees only — the self-employed are excluded.
- No row is estimated. Where the agency published nothing for a band, nothing appears.
annual (NZD) = published monthly figure × 12
Every industrie, highest first
| Industry | Median (annualised) | Share of the highest |
|---|---|---|
| Financial and insurance activities | $119,520 | 100% |
| Electricity | $116,160 | 97% |
| Mining and quarrying | $113,520 | 95% |
| Information and communication | $113,040 | 95% |
| Public administration and defence | $93,000 | 78% |
| Professional, scientific and technical activities | $92,880 | 78% |
| Real estate activities | $80,880 | 68% |
| Activities of extraterritorial organizations and bodies | $79,080 | 66% |
| Transportation and storage | $78,240 | 65% |
| Manufacturing | $75,960 | 64% |
| Water supply | $75,960 | 64% |
| Construction | $75,240 | 63% |
| Human health and social work activities | $71,880 | 60% |
| Education | $64,200 | 54% |
| Wholesale and retail trade | $60,840 | 51% |
| Arts, entertainment and recreation | $59,280 | 50% |
| Administrative and support service activities | $57,480 | 48% |
| Agriculture | $56,520 | 47% |
| Other service activities | $52,800 | 44% |
| X - Not elsewhere classified | $40,800 | 34% |
| Accommodation and food service activities | $37,320 | 31% |
| Activities of households as employers | $28,560 | 24% |
Stats NZ · ECO_ISIC4 2022
SOURCE·Stats NZ — Household Labour Force Survey (income)·CC BY 4.0·REVIEWED JUN 2025 YEAR
And split by sex
| Industry | All | Men | Women | Women's pay as % of men's |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Financial and insurance activities | $119,520 | $147,360 | $96,600 | 66% |
| Electricity | $116,160 | $129,360 | $93,360 | 72% |
| Mining and quarrying | $113,520 | $119,520 | $84,480 | 71% |
| Information and communication | $113,040 | $123,480 | $94,200 | 76% |
| Public administration and defence | $93,000 | $100,080 | $86,760 | 87% |
| Professional, scientific and technical activities | $92,880 | $110,760 | $76,800 | 69% |
| Real estate activities | $80,880 | $102,360 | $67,080 | 66% |
| Activities of extraterritorial organizations and bodies | $79,080 | $83,160 | $76,200 | 92% |
| Transportation and storage | $78,240 | $83,520 | $64,920 | 78% |
| Manufacturing | $75,960 | $82,080 | $62,400 | 76% |
| Water supply | $75,960 | $80,040 | $66,840 | 84% |
| Construction | $75,240 | $77,760 | $61,680 | 79% |
| Human health and social work activities | $71,880 | $98,040 | $65,640 | 67% |
| Education | $64,200 | $76,080 | $60,120 | 79% |
| Wholesale and retail trade | $60,840 | $71,520 | $48,840 | 68% |
| Arts, entertainment and recreation | $59,280 | $69,000 | $51,240 | 74% |
| Administrative and support service activities | $57,480 | $62,880 | $50,640 | 81% |
| Agriculture | $56,520 | $62,520 | $43,680 | 70% |
| Other service activities | $52,800 | $63,240 | $48,120 | 76% |
| X - Not elsewhere classified | $40,800 | $61,800 | $31,320 | 51% |
| Accommodation and food service activities | $37,320 | $43,200 | $33,360 | 77% |
| Activities of households as employers | $28,560 | $34,560 | $27,000 | 78% |
This compares the average pay of all men against all women in each industry. It is not a like-for-like comparison of the same job at the same level — it reflects which roles and hours men and women actually hold, which is what makes it worth publishing.
What people ask next
- Which industry pays the most in New Zealand?
- Financial and insurance activities, at $119,520 a year, against $28,560 for Activities of households as employers at the other end. Figures are 2022, annualised from the published monthly series.
- Are these annual or monthly figures?
- The agency publishes them monthly. They are shown here multiplied by twelve so they sit on the same annual basis as the rest of the site, and they cover employees only — the self-employed are excluded.
