What is the median household income?
Median annual household income before tax was $109,556 (Stats NZ Tatauranga Aotearoa, Year to Jun 2025).
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Median and mean annual household income from Stats NZ's Household Economic Survey, years ended June 2007–2025: gross income (before tax), disposable income (after tax and transfers), equivalised disposable income (adjusted for household size), and equivalised disposable income after housing costs.
Survey estimates with sampling error (published with each value); small year-to-year changes may not be significant. The median is the better guide to a typical household; the mean is pulled up by high incomes.
Household income combines income across household members. The median describes the middle household, while an average is affected by the largest incomes. Before tax and after tax figures answer different questions about the same household.
Read the period beside each number before comparing it with another figure. A monthly observation, a quarterly result and a financial year cover different spans of time. The latest release can also revise earlier observations. The chart and downloads keep the published periods so you can check which figures are being compared. A change in household incomes describes what happened during that period; it does not by itself explain why it happened or identify the effect of a government policy. Definitions and coverage matter as much as the size of a change.
Median household gross income was $103,542 in Year to Jun 2024, a year earlier.
The earliest observation on the same basis was $52,887 in Year to Jun 2007.
Household incomes: definitions
Median and mean annual household income from Stats NZ's Household Economic Survey, years ended June 2007–2025: gross income (before tax), disposable income (after tax and transfers), equivalised disposable income (adjusted for household size), and equivalised disposable income after housing costs.
- Survey estimates with sampling error (published with each value); small year-to-year changes may not be significant.
- The median is the better guide to a typical household; the mean is pulled up by high incomes.
- Dollars are not adjusted for inflation; compare with CPI or use the inflation-adjusted view.
- After-housing-costs income shows what is left after rent or mortgage, rates and insurance.
Show the figures
| Period | Median household gross income (NZ$) |
|---|---|
| Year to Jun 2025 | $109,556 |
| Year to Jun 2024 | $103,542 |
| Year to Jun 2023 | $98,345 |
| Year to Jun 2022 | $95,854 |
| Year to Jun 2021 | $89,194 |
| Year to Jun 2020 | $83,852 |
| Year to Jun 2019 | $79,979 |
| Year to Jun 2018 | $79,361 |
| Year to Jun 2017 | $74,039 |
| Year to Jun 2016 | $72,292 |
| Year to Jun 2015 | $69,048 |
| Year to Jun 2014 | $65,768 |
| Year to Jun 2013 | $63,808 |
| Year to Jun 2012 | $60,521 |
| Year to Jun 2011 | $58,546 |
| Year to Jun 2010 | $58,066 |
| Year to Jun 2009 | $58,453 |
| Year to Jun 2008 | $55,444 |
| Year to Jun 2007 | $52,887 |
Years ended June (Household Economic Survey). Source: Stats NZ Tatauranga Aotearoa. Lines break at basis changes and missing periods.
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