Melbourne
MEDIUM · sourced, not yet live-verified
MEDIUM. The tier-1 framework is real and now cited to documents that carry their numbers: the FWC's Annual Wage Review 2026 decision for the $26.44 National Minimum Wage, and the FWC major-case and news pages for the state of MS2024/3. No Minimum Standards Order is operative as of 2026-07-28 — the 8 July 2026 decision only PROPOSES one, submissions closed 29 July 2026, commencement 10 August 2026 if made — so there is no enforced minimum pay rate for Australian food delivery couriers. The published AUD $21.00/hr is unsourced; the TWU survey's AUD $12.50/hr after expenses is the best named actual-earnings estimate and is a different quantity. Two weaknesses remain and are stated in the row rather than pending: the median wage this city is scored against is not the figure its cited ABS page publishes, and corroborating_archive_url has been cleared because no Wayback capture of the cited FWC news page exists. THIS ROW IS NOT AN INDEPENDENT OBSERVATION: it is a byte-identical copy of sydney-au's national record, with no Melbourne or Victorian evidence of any kind, and none is available because the FWC is the national regulator and Victoria has no instrument of its own. It counts one Australian national data point twice.
Only HIGH-confidence cities carry a full verification audit. See the methodology for what each tier means.
Earnings (USD per hour)
Source: TWU survey (mid-2024) + FWC pending Minimum Standards Order proposal (Nov 2025)
What would you take home in Melbourne?
Take-home, weekly
n/a
Take-home, monthly
n/a
Gross, weekly
$440
Gross, monthly
$1,908
Take-home is gross hourly minus an estimated tax/expense rate per country. See the methodology page for the derivation. This widget assumes you actually work the hours you set. For app-based delivery, a portion of logged-in time is unpaid waiting; the headline rate reflects engaged time only where regulators have defined it.
Cost of living vs. earnings
Pay vs. local labour market
Gross hourly is 37% of local minimum wage, 23% of local median.
Notes
TWU, Uber Eats and DoorDash filed a joint submission in Nov 2025 for an AUD $31.30/hr engaged-time minimum. The FWC published a decision proposing an order on 8 July 2026; submissions closed 29 July 2026 and it would start on 10 August 2026 if made. Nothing is operative yet. This record carries no Melbourne-specific or Victorian evidence: it is Australia's national position, identical to sydney-au. Outside-of-centre rent estimated as 70% of city-centre pending Round D1.
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See full source citations for this city on the sources page. Read about how each metric is computed in the methodology.
Primary earnings source: ministers.dewr.gov.au/rishworth/australia-leading-world-gig-worker-protections · archived