New OECD data says the ACT is one of the best places to start in Australia, having the highest income bracket and best prospects for jobs.
It scored 10 out of 10 for income, 9.6 for jobs and 9.5 for the environment.
The ACT’s average income is the highest of any of the 300 developed nation regions identified by the OECD wellbeing matching machine at oecdregionalwellbeing.org/
The ACT also had the highest bracket for education, scoring a 9.1 compared to NSW’s 7.2 for education, Victoria 7.4, Western Australia 7, and Queensland 6.9.
Victoria, with the largest number of Greek speakers outside of Athens to its name, was the second best for jobs, scoring a high 8.5.
NSW wasn’t far behind, scoring an 8.3 for jobs, while its income bracket was higher than Victoria’s scoring a 7.1 compared to 6.4.
Greece on the other hand scored a damning 0.9 for jobs in Athens, putting it in the lowest 3 per cent of the developed nations on the list. It was the worst in the category, with Spain coming close to Greece, scoring bellow a 3.9 for jobs.
It also scored quite low in access to services (6.1), health (6.3) and environment (4.3), while its income was extremely low, scoring just 4.7.
The annual disposable income for a Greek is AUD $18,467.
Northern Greece was had the lowest prospects of finding a job, sitting at just 0.6, with income at 3.3 and environment at 1.9. It did have the highest safety rating of the country at 9.7.
Source: oecdrenionalwellbeing.org, Fairfax