Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk’s salary is set to increase by almost $50,000 by mid-2025 as part of an 11 per cent pay rise over three years for Queensland politicians.
The determination by the Queensland Independent Remuneration Tribunal (QIRT) means all 93 members of state parliament will receive the following three salary increases:
- three per cent from July 2023 (to be back-paid)
- four per cent from July 2024
- three per cent from July 2025
Woo. Rich pointless pen pushers get more money. Only thing we need less of are oligarchs
To be fair they deserve it alot more than CEOs and making politicians comfortable should cause them to be less suspectible to corruption
A $500k salary is nice, but it’s not oligarch level. The CEO of any major company is going to be 5x that at least. Even those people are still working for a living.
Sounds about right.
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Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk’s salary is set to increase by almost $50,000 by mid-2025 as part of an 11 per cent pay rise over three years for Queensland politicians.
The determination by the Queensland Independent Remuneration Tribunal (QIRT) means all 93 members of state parliament will receive the following three salary increases:
Ms Palaszczuk would need to win re-election in next year’s state election to hold on to the new pay packet, with the premier’s current salary of $427,561 increasing to $476,323 by mid-2025.
New South Wales Premier Chris Minns is the third-highest paid on a salary of $416,440 a year.
“The tribunal considered that the salary increases provided to public service employees in the 2023 Agreement are largely consistent with the actual and forecasted rates of inflation with the exception of 2022-23 where inflation was 7.25 per cent,” the QIRT determination said.
In 2021, the tribunal ruled that state MPs would receive three pay rises in 15 months to overrule a previous decision to freeze MPs’ wages for four years due to the COVID pandemic.
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