These graphs show the profile of households in poverty by the labour force status of the household reference person.

2017-18 (All people)

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Although households that rely on paid employment have a much lower rate of poverty, they make up 38% of all people below the 50% median income poverty line, and 42% of all people below the 60% median income poverty line.

2017-18 (Employed fulltime)

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2017-18 (Employed parttime)

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2015-16

[infogram id=”_/je9xnvNL1iAu8dEAhCHV” prefix=”aKi” format=”interactive” title=”Fig.19_ Profile of poverty by labour force status of household reference person”]Although households that rely on paid employment have a much lower rate of poverty, they make up 39% of all people below the 50% median income poverty line, and 41% of all people below the 60% median income poverty line. This reflects the fact that three times as many people live in households whose reference person receives income from employment compared with income support payments.