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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.
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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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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