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Australian Fair Pay Commission

Welcome to the Australian Fair Pay Commission website fairpay.gov.au. The Australian Fair Pay Commission is an independent body responsible for setting and adjusting federal minimum and classification wages. The Commission undertakes annual wage reviews and announces its decision in July of each year. The Commission’s minimum wage decisions flow on to juniors, trainees, casual workers, employees with a disability.

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Fact sheets explaining various aspects of the Commission’s 2008 general Wage-Setting Decision have been translated into a number of languages and are available for download from this website.

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18 July 2008

Pay Scale Summaries updated

Pay Scale Summaries for more than 400 of the most commonly used awards have been published on the Workplace Authority website. The summaries are derived from the relevant pre-Work Choices award (federal and state) as adjusted by the Australian Fair Pay Commission decision, effective 1 December 2006 and have now been adjusted to take account of the Commission’s general Wage-Setting Decision 2008.

8 July 2008

2008 minimum wage decision

The Australian Fair Pay Commission has increased the standard Federal Minimum Wage (FMW) and all Australian Pay and Classification Scales (Pay Scales) by $21.66 per week. The standard FMW has increased from $13.74 to $14.31 per hour. The decision takes effect from the first pay period on or after

1 October 2008.

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Decision documents    Fact sheets    Commissioned research
Media release (PDF 47Kb)   Speech (PDF 38Kb)
Audio (WMF 1.8Mb)    Video (WMF 21Mb)

Current minimum wage rates

The general Wage-Setting Decision 2008 has two main elements:

an increase of $21.66 per week ($0.57 per hour) to the standard Federal Minimum Wage (FMW) bringing the weekly rate to $543.78. The standard FMW increases from $13.74 to $14.31 per hour; and
an increase of approximately $21.66 per week ($0.57 per hour) for adult rates of pay in Australian Pay and Classification Scales (Pay Scales).

These increases flow on to junior employees, employees to whom training arrangements apply, employees with a disability, casual employees and employees receiving basic piece rates of pay.

Australian Fairpay Commission