Information Media and Telecommunications

EMPLOYED

188,000

PART-TIME SHARE

21%

WORKFORCE SHARE

1.3%

FEMALE SHARE

40%

MEDIAN WEEKLY EARNINGS

$1,815

MEDIAN AGE

40

Information Media and Telecommunications is a small employing industry. Around 1.3% of workers have their main job in this industry.

Businesses in this industry are mainly involved in activities like:

  • creating, enhancing, storing and distributing information products
  • transmitting information products using analogue and digital signals
  • operating the infrastructure to enable the transmission and storage of information and information products.

A large share of the workforce work in cities.

Median earnings are $1,815 per week, higher than all industries median earnings of $1,700.

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    Employment

    Employment in the Information Media and Telecommunications industry fell over the 20 years to February 2025.
    The number of workers fell by 900 (or -0.5%) over the last year.

    Source: ABS, Labour Force Survey, Detailed, February 2025, Jobs and Skills Australia (JSA) trend data.
    Note: Over the COVID-19 pandemic period (highlighted section in the chart above), some industries have censored values, resulting in a broken series for impacted industries. This is due to large quarterly fluctuations in employment resulting in trend data being unreliable for these quarters. Where data are available over the COVID-19 pandemic period, JSA recommends caution when using these trend estimates.
    Quarterly employment, Information Media and Telecommunications Employment
    230900
    231700
    232300
    232800
    233100
    233300
    233300
    233100
    232700
    232100
    231400
    230400
    229400
    228300
    227100
    225800
    224600
    223300
    222100
    220900
    219800
    218700
    217800
    216900
    216100
    215300
    214700
    214100
    213500
    213000
    212400
    211900
    211300
    210800
    210400
    210000
    209600
    209400
    209300
    209200
    209200
    209200
    209300
    209400
    209400
    209500
    209500
    209500
    209400
    209200
    208900
    208500
    207900
    207300
    206500
    205500
    204500
    203300
    202200
    200900
    199700
    198500
    197300
    196200
    195200
    194200
    193400
    192700
    192000
    191500
    191000
    190500
    190100
    189700
    189400
    189100
    188900
    188600
    188400
    188200
    188000

    Sectors

    Telecommunications Services is the largest sector in the Information Media and Telecommunications industry, employing 72,800 workers.

    Source: ABS, Labour Force Survey, Detailed, February 2025, Jobs and Skills Australia (JSA) trend data.
    Note: the sum of sectoral employment may not equal the industry total as data are trended separately, and not further defined (nfd) classifications have been excluded.
    Employment by industry sectors Employment
    Telecommunications Services 72800
    Motion Picture and Video Activities 34700
    Television Broadcasting 22500
    Libraries and Archives 16500
    Newspaper, Periodical, Book and Directory Publishing 15300
    Radio Broadcasting 8000
    Internet Service Providers and Web Search Portals 4600
    Data Processing, Web Hosting and Electronic Information Storage Services 4000
    Internet Publishing and Broadcasting 3100
    Sound Recording and Music Publishing 1300
    Software Publishing 200
    Other Information Services 100

    Occupations

    Telecommunications Trades Workers is the largest employing occupation in the Information Media and Telecommunications industry.

    The 10 largest employing occupations are shown below.

    Some occupations are common across a number of industries.

    Largest employing occupations

    Industry data

    This file contains data for all 19 industries to make comparing industry data easy. Information available includes:

    • industry overview
    • industry employment (20-year time series)
    • industry sector employment
    • top employing occupations by industry.

     

    Industry data - February 2025.xlsx

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