In fact, Brisbane residents now have the highest median income in the five capital cities, according to a broad new analysis.
While wages in capital cities have generally risen, those of Perth residents have shrunk sharply.
Australia's annual Household, income and Labor Dynamics Survey (HILDA) released the results on Tuesday.
The University of Melbourne study also found that Australians have reduced their energy use in the face of rising electricity bills, and that more and more young people are choosing not to get a driver's license and there is a wide gap in income inequality.
As the mining boom ended, Perth's wages fell sharply, according to the HILDA report.
Median income is the number that ranks high-to low-income in order. It is different from average income, that is, total income divided by the number of working people.
The median national income is $1019 a week, or $52988 a year, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), which includes part-time and full-time workers.
If your salary is 109668 yuan a year, you are in the top 10% of all workers.
In early 2015, the median household income in Western Australia's capital cities was close to 60,000 yuan, compared with 50,000 yuan or less in all other capital cities.
Between 2012 and 2016, Perth's income fell 6.3 percent, while in Western Australia's urban areas, with the exception of Perth, the decline was even greater, with household income falling 10.5 percent, the highest in Australia.
"between 2015 and 2016, median incomes in Australia's mainland capital cities converged considerably as a result of a sharp decline in Perth revenues and moderate growth in Sydney and Adelaide," the report's authors said.
Perth is the only capital city where wages have fallen, with household incomes averaging 51252 yuan in 2016 and 54698 yuan in 2012.
In Brisbane, wages rose 4.6% from 49637 yuan in 2012 to 51726 yuan in 2016.
But the highest median wage in Australia, you need to go to Canberra, or perhaps Darwin. The study did not distinguish the two cities, but called them the Capital Territory and the Northern Territory cities.
Within the region, the median household income was just over 67000 yuan, but that was 3.9 percent lower than in 2012.
The median income for Melbourne families is 49359 yuan, compared with 48381 yuan for Sydney people. Although the median income is lower than Brisbane, Australia's highest personal income comes from Sydney and Melbourne.
Adelaide residents are "dragging back", with median income of 46758 yuan, although it's up 1.8%. The lowest income was in South Australian cities other than Adelaide, with a median income of 34497 yuan.
The state's monthly status report, compiled by CommSec and released last week, shows that for the first time, Victoria beat the new state to the top of the list.
The analysis looked at a range of indicators that measure economic performance, including income. The report says annual wage growth in capital cities is at an all-time low.
In the year to March, wage growth in Victoria and Tata was the strongest (2.3 percent), higher than in Queensland (2.2 percent), while wages in the Northern Territory rose just 1.1 percent. Western Australia's revenues are up 1.5% from a month earlier.
In general, because of population growth and extensive construction activities, especially in housing construction, Victoria gradually replaced the new state, but there is little difference between the two.
Kunzhou is generally ranked in terms of economic performance.
"Kunzhou ranked fifth in terms of performance, ahead of South Australia, but there was little difference between the two places. Kunzhou ranked fourth on both indicators, with four ranked fifth, "the report said.
Western Australia's economy is still in a lacklustre state, according to CommSec, which is the worst performer, driven by a weak job market and construction, and is 36.7 percent below the 10-year average.
But for Western Australia, there is some good news, the report said, that there is reason to be optimistic about the outlook for the economy: "population growth is now the fastest in more than two years and investment in equipment is at its highest level in three years."
In other areas, the HILDA report found that while prices continued to rise, average spending on electricity and natural gas had fallen since reaching its peak in 2014.
Lead researcher Professor Wiggins (Roger Wilkins) said the data suggest that households have adapted to higher electricity prices and gas prices.
"people have found ways to reduce energy consumption, such as buying energy-efficient appliances, installing solar panels, insulating houses, LED lights, and possibly reducing the number of heating rooms in the winter," he said.
Average household energy spending has risen since 2006-from 1727 yuan a year (December 2016 prices) to 2118 yuan in 2015-2016, according to the latest data from the survey. But between 2013 and 2014, the figure was actually 2185 yuan.
The study also found that the oldest group with a driver's license was between the ages of 35 and 44, with 93 percent of women and 96 percent of men.
But young men are losing love for driving. Between 2012 and 2016, the proportion of 18-to-19-year-old men with licences fell from 71 percent to 64.8 percent, while the proportion of men aged 25 to 29 fell from 90 percent to 86.1 percent.