Radiographer Salary Australia: A Resident Take-Home Sketch
Radiographers in Australia—also known as medical imaging professionals—earn a median full-time salary of $2,360 per week, according to the Survey of Employee Earnings and Hours, May 2025. This figure is for full-time non-managerial employees paid at the adult rate, which provides a clean comparison across occupations. The national full-time average, from the Average Weekly Earnings, May 2026, is **$2,083.70 per week (about $108,352 per year).
How Radiographer Pay Sits Against the National Line
The site’s line is the national full-time adult ordinary-time average: $2,083.70 per week. Radiographers are well above that line. The median radiographer salary is $2,360 per week, which is about $276.30 more than the average. This means that a typical radiographer earns more than the typical full-time worker.
A Take-Home Sketch for a Resident Radiographer
Using the 2026–27 tax rates (nil up to $18,200, 15% to $45,000, 30% to $135,000, plus 2% Medicare levy), a radiographer earning the median of $122,720 per year would pay roughly $27,000 in tax and $2,450 in Medicare levy, leaving about $93,270 per year, or about $1,793 per week. This is before any deductions or offsets. The national average full-time worker earning $108,352 would take home about $83,000 per year, or about $1,596 per week. So a radiographer’s take-home is about $197 more per week than the average worker.
Gender and Hours and Demographics
Radiographers are a female-dominated occupation: 76% of the workforce is female, according to. The median age is 36 years. Average full-time hours for medical imaging professionals is 40 hours per week, but the site uses a 38-hour week for the line. The median hourly earnings for radiographers is $60 per hour. The national minimum wage from 1 July 2026 is $26.44 per hour, $1,004.9 per week, about $52,255 per year.
State Averages for Context
While no state-specific radiographer data is available, the national full-time averages by state are: New South Wales $2,108.80, Victoria $2,041.10, Queensland $2,039.70, South Australia $1,970.20, Western Australia $2,227.40, Tasmania $1,846.30, Northern Territory $1,984.10, Australian Capital Territory $2,290.20. Radiographers earn above all these state averages except possibly Tasmania and ACT.
How the Figures Are Set
The median radiographer salary comes from the ABS Survey of Employee Earnings and Hours, May 2025, which is the most recent source for occupation-level medians. The national average is from ABS Average Weekly Earnings, May 2026. The site uses these to show where pay sits. For more on how the figures are set, see How the figures are set. For other job medians, see Job medians.