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FEATURE | Recruitment: Laying foundations

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 5 JAN 2026
... receive 10-15% more. A chief communications officer can attract a salary of more than $300,000, including super and excluding bonus, while a communications manager can typically earn between $130,000 and $180,000. What's next? Butt paints a positive ...

Australia's gender pay gap narrows: WGEA reports

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2025
The Workplace Gender Equality Agency has released the latest Australia's Gender Equality Scorecard. Spanning the past 12 months, the employer census revealed that the national gender pay gap has dropped by 0.7 percentage points (pp) to 21.1%, from 21.8% ...

Hostplus introduces retirement bonus payments

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2025
Hostplus has introduced retirement bonus payments when members transition into the pension phase. From today, members who meet the eligibility criteria will receive an additional top-up to their account when they transfer from a Hostplus accumulation ...

Feature: Retirement | Rewarding risk

LACHLAN COLQUHOUN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2025
... "retirement income paid." A life without regrets Regret doesn't make it onto the SMILE index but it's there as a "bonus" risk. Hillier points to the fact that around 90% of super balances are left unspent. "What could that 90% represent?" he ...

Marketing, communications roles gain momentum

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2025
... communications specialists. A chief communications officer can attract a salary of more than $300,000, including super and excluding bonus, while a communications manager can typically earn between $130,000 and $180,000. For product roles, Kaizen said ...

Age Pension to increase on September 20

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2025
... receive an Age Pension are being hit with effective marginal tax rates of 60% to 80%. "We continue to call for the Work Bonus payments thresholds to be indexed to Average Weekly Ordinary Time Earnings (AWOTE). This isn't just about allowing retirees ...

Aware Super makes fee changes

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2025
... that had accumulated over previous years from administration fees paid to the trustee", Aware said. The maximum Retirement Bonus amount also increased from 1 July 2025, meaning members could receive a maximum bonus of up to $13,000, previously $12,35 ...

ANZ fined $240m for bond trading, retail misconduct

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2025
... payments totalling $92,687 and corrections to customer. Another $40 million in civil penalties relate to failing to pay bonus interest between July 2013 and January 2024. ANZ promised to pay introductory bonus interest to customers who opened certain ...

Retirees unfairly targeted by tax: HESTA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2025
... result, HESTA has called on the government to ensuring retirees' incentives to work are not diminished by indexing the Work Bonus payments thresholds to Average Weekly Ordinary Time Earnings (AWOTE). The Work Bonus allows those at or over Age Pension ...

Salary report shows 23% pay gap for top BDMs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2025
... salary although the survey found that many BDMs did not hit their targets last year, achieving only 35% to 40% of their total bonus potential. This misalignment between the targets and the tough capital-raising environment last year has led to more BDMs ...