According to the Australian newspaper, the average remuneration of 58 federal ministers and their staff jumped to A $233000 in fiscal year 2017 (including 15.4% of the retirement provident fund and various cash allowances). That figure was A $177000 two years ago, the last year of the Abbott government.
For opposition party's 39-member team, salaries rose 34 percent to A $ seven hundred and fifty thousand, or an average of A $193000 per person.
According to parliamentary documents, there has been no change in the number of staff, but wages for all staff have risen by 2% and by 2% next year.
In addition, government, the opposition and small party's 540 ministerial staff, from assistants to senior advisers and chief advisers, earns up to A $320000 a year, plus 15.4 percent of retirement provident funds, as well as travel benefits. In the office of employment minister Michaelia Cash, a 21-year-old innovation consultant earns about A $ one hundred and thirty thousand a year.
These salary data do not include travel costs. In December, the Australian newspaper disclosed that travel costs for the two major government agencies had soared 75 percent in the two years to June 2017 to A $12660 a day. Among them, the tax-free "travel allowance"-an allowance paid regardless of the actual cost of travel-jumped 149 percent to an average of about A $22000 per employee.
The average full-time employee in Australia grew 2.2 percent last year to A $84860.
Starting on Sunday, July 1, Australia's minimum hourly salary rose 3.5 percent to A $18.93, and the minimum weekly salary rose to A $719.2, up A $24.3 from the previous day. Annual income is 37400 Australian dollars.
Here's a comparison: the average remuneration of 58 federal ministers and their staff was A $233000 in fiscal year 2017.
The Labour Party's 39-member unit earns an average of A $193000 per person.
The average pre-tax salary for a full-time Australian employee last year was A $84860.
Australia's minimum weekly salary until July 1 was A $694.9 and an annual salary of A $36134.8.
In addition, Australia's government rules on Sunday, July 1, Australia's minimum hourly salary to A $18.93, up 3.5 percent, the minimum weekly salary corresponding to A $719.2, up A $24.3 from the previous period. The minimum annual salary is A $37398.
The lowest hourly job in Australia is $18.93. The increase in the minimum wage was recommended by Glenn Stevens, Governor of the Central Bank of Australia.
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, 1/4 of active workers across the country receive a minimum wage. And according to the basic theory of economics, only the increase in the sales of daily consumer goods will help the whole economy. Australia's government wants to boost productivity by increasing its citizens' daily spending, especially by low-paid people, so Congress uses legal pressure on bosses to pay more to workers.
$18.93 / hour, do you think it's too high?