This statistical note updates earlier work on the salaries paid to general staff working at Australia's public universities, and the levels at which universities classify those staff. In 2017, higher proportions of general staff in more senior grades could be found at the University of Technology Sydney, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, the University of Canberra, and Monash and Macquarie Universities. Similarly, based on the median salary classification across Australian universities, the universities offering the highest salaries to staff in the median classification were the University of Sydney, the University of New South Wales, Macquarie University, the University of Melbourne and Curtin University of Technology.