From my experience in Brisbane (I think Melbourne is similar, Sydney is higher because of higher living costs).

Games Companies: Junior - $35k - $45k (< 5 years experience) Mid Level - $45k - 65k (3 - 8 years experience) Senior - $65k - $85k (5+ years experience)

(skill is also a factor, which is why the experience brackets aren't equal)

At a web dev company doing Javascript / PHP / Asp work it's about $10k - $15k on top of that for each level.

Working at an enterprise doing what most would class as boring work it's probably another $10k again over working at a web dev company.

There are a few high paying ($80k+) jobs for ruby devs that I've seen around too and freelancing pays pretty well but then you have to find the work.

Games companies always underpay. It's never financially worthwhile working in that field (except maybe in social gaming if you are in SV)

Taking any permanent job as a developer in Australia is almost always a bad move financially. You should be looking at contracting.

If you are prepared to work in enterprise software then rates are around $70-$90/hour for mid to high level developers (rates go higher for architect positions too). Contracts typically are 6 months, and almost always are renewed.

(These are Adelaide Java rates - East Coast rates are typically $5-10/hour higher, and I've heard Perth rates are higher still)

Sounds about right. I graduated from UQ in 2008 - I had job offers from Honeywell in Sydney ($56k) and a local Brisbane firm ($45k) but took Microsoft (US$80k). Banks and IBM were offering ~$50k. A couple friends who went to Google in Sydney were at ~$60k, those who stayed in Brisbane were generally on ~$40-$50k. 5 or 6 of us from my graduating class came over to MS that year.