You lodge your tax return, the refund is smaller than you expected, and the reason is usually not your salary — it is the deductions you did not claim. Every…
The average salary in Australia is $108,352 a year. That is the figure most people quote, and it is also the figure most people misunderstand. It is an average of…
You wake up unwell, call in sick, and still get paid. That is the deal Australian sick leave offers — ten days a year for a full-time worker, building up…
Saturday, Sunday, night and public holiday shifts pay more than weekday day shifts. That extra pay is called a penalty rate, and for millions of Australian workers it is the…
Ten years with one employer is a long time. Long service leave is the reward for it: a block of paid leave that, on an $80,000 salary, is worth more…
Losing your job to redundancy is stressful enough without having to guess what you are owed. The redundancy pay calculator Australia workers use on this page turns two numbers —…
Stay back late, start before dawn, or pick up hours beyond your roster — and the extra work should pay extra. But how much extra? Australia has no single overtime…
Four weeks of paid holiday a year sounds simple — until you try to put a dollar value on it. How much is one leave day worth on your salary?…
If you work casually in Australia, your hourly rate is almost certainly higher than the permanent rate for the same job — and the difference is called casual loading. The…
A novated lease lets you pay for a car — the lease plus fuel, insurance, servicing and rego — from your pre-tax salary. On a $100,000 salary, packaging $12,000 of…