Australia's minimum and award wages to increase by 3.75 per cent after Fair Work Commission ruling (www.abc.net.au)

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In short: The Fair Work Commission has increased both the minimum and award wages by 3.75 per cent.

The decision means the national minimum wage will be $24.10 per hour or $913.91 per week, based on a 38-hour week.

What's next? The increase to minimum and award wages will take effect from July 1.

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[-] Baku@aussie.zone 8 points 4 months ago

I know this might sound kind of egotistical, but thanks for posting so much recently. I feel like recently I've sort of been dominating things, partly because I wanted to keep things active, but I backed off and wasn't sure if anybody was going to take over posting the interesting ABC articles

[-] MHLoppy@fedia.io 6 points 4 months ago

I do try to post to this instance periodically (though sporadically might be more accurate to how it usually goes)! I know what you mean about the balance between dominating submissions vs not having activity - it can feel a bit weird being "the person who posts all the ____ stuff".

[-] Nath@aussie.zone 2 points 4 months ago

It's been a long time since I was on minimum wage, but that's $47.5k / roughly what I was making around 2003-2005 as an IT worker.

Minimum wage has come a long way in 30 years! (No, I couldn't live on this wage today - depending on how much I'd lose in tax, it might not even cover my rent. But still, minimum wage is pushing $50k!)