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As of January 3, 2022, effective state minimum wage rates range from US$7.25 to US$16.66 per hour, with an average of about $12.00 across all minimum wage workers as of 2019. [ 236 ] [ 237 ] [ 238 ] Local government minimum wages exist as well, the highest of which reach to $17.13 per hour.
The Australian Fair Pay and Conditions Standard was a set of five minimum statutory entitlements for wages and conditions introduced as part of the Howard government's WorkChoices amendments to Australian labour law in 2006 and then abolished by the Fair Work Act 2009 in 2010.
For example, the "Legal Services Award 2020" sets minimum weekly rates for "levels 1 to 6" for clerical and administrative staff (but not lawyers), the "Reserve Bank of Australia Award 2016" sets "levels 1 to 5" for annual salaries, and the "Higher Education Industry – Academic Staff – Award 2020" sets a 24 level pay scale with both annual ...
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On 26 October 2006, the Commission handed down its first decision. [2] The Commission's media release stated: The Australian Fair Pay Commission today announced an increase of $27.36 per week in the standard Federal Minimum Wage and in all Pay Scales up to $700 per week.
A National Minimum Wage (NMW) was introduced for the first time by the Labour government on 1 April 1999 at the rate of £3.60 per hour for those workers aged 22 and over, [125] Labour having promised to set a minimum wage in their 1997 general election campaign. In its election manifesto, it had said that every other modern industrial country ...
Minimum wage rates vary greatly across many different jurisdictions, not only in setting a particular amount of money—for example $7.25 per hour ($14,500 per year) under certain US state laws (or $2.13 for employees who receive tips, which is known as the tipped minimum wage), $16.28 per hour in the U.S. state of Washington, [29] or £11.44 ...
Changes from the previous system of wages contained in awards included that basic periodic rates were in an hourly (rounded) rather than weekly form, and that wage rates were adjusted by the Australian Fair Pay Commission rather than the Australian Industrial Relations Commission. [4] Penalty rates, allowances and loadings other than casual ...