For readers not familiar with salaries in Australia, [1] indicates that a labour hire employee in Canberra on a take-home rate of ~AUD$120/hr places that person in the top ~3.6% of income earners in Australia and easily within the top 1% of the world. Per the OECD Regional Well Being Index[2], Canberra shares a 10/10 score for income with a small number of other US regions and is the only non-US OECD region with a 10/10 income score. When considering other quality of life factors, Canberra easily leads the OECD regional index at a sum of 106.74 vs. 82.81 for California, which also scored 10/10 for income. New Hampshire, Minnesota and Vermont share second place at a sum of 96 with income scores of 9.9-10 and fifth place was Victoria (Melbourne) in Australia at a sum of 95 with an income score of 5.8.

[1] https://www.ato.gov.au/About-ATO/Research-and-statistics/In-...

[2] https://www.oecdregionalwellbeing.org/assets/downloads/OECD-...