It’s time to cap senior bureaucrat pay

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Ordinary Australians are suffering through their worst cost-of-living crisis in generations and a record decline in their real wages, with no recovery forecast.

Real wages

The opposite is true for senior bureaucrats working in the federal public service.

The independent Remuneration Tribunal is undertaking a 14-month review of senior federal public servants’ remuneration packages. It will assess the salaries of the top 26 bureaucrats, whose salaries range from $816,000 to $1,035,690 a year.

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Senior secretary allowances

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About the author
Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.
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