Highly educated female migrants have the biggest wage gap

Female migrants arriving 2015-2019, per cent difference from otherwise similar Australian-born women, 2021 Census

The total divergence from Australian-born women with that level of education (reported in the education level labels) is the sum of positive and negative explanations for migrants' wages. For example, postgraduate migrants earn more than Australian-born people with postgraduate education because they are more likely to live in a city and work in high-paying industries, but earn less because they are younger and have poorer English proficiency on average.
Source: CEDA estimates based on regression analysis of ABS Census dataGet the dataCreated with Datawrapper