PART 2 – REMUNERATION OF MEMBERS: SALARIES AND ELECTORATE ALLOWANCE

Base salary

2.1 For subsection 14(2) of the PBR Act, the annual allowance payable to a senator or member of the House of Representatives for the purposes of section 48 of the Constitution (known as ‘base salary’) is $207,100.

2.2 For paragraph 45(3)(a) of the PBR Act, the portion of base salary that is not parliamentary allowance for the purposes of the Parliamentary Contributory Superannuation Act 1948 is $43,230.

Office holder’s salary

Determination of office holder’s salary

2.3 For paragraph 14(3)(b) of the PBR Act, the amounts in Column 2 of the Table in Schedule A (‘office holder’s salary’) are determined for the corresponding office holders in Column 1 of that Table.

Note: The amounts in Schedule A are expressed as specified percentages of the base salary. For example, the office holder’s salary for the Speaker of the House of Representatives is $155,330 per annum, being 75% of the base salary of $207,100, rounded up to the nearest $10.

2.4 For Shadow Ministers, the following rules apply:

2.4.1 An amount is determined for paragraph 14(3)(b) of the PBR Act for a Shadow Minister only if:

a. the Shadow Minister is a person specified in a notice given to the paying authority by the Leader of the Opposition as a person to whom

clause 2.4.2 applies or a person to whom clause 2.4.3 applies; and

b. the Shadow Minister does not hold another office for which the office holder’s salary is more than 25% of the base salary.

2.4.2 For the following persons, and in the following circumstances, the amount is 25% of the base salary:

a. the person is specified in the notice as a person to whom this clause applies;

b. the number of persons specified in the notice as persons to whom this clause applies does not exceed:

A – B

where

A = the number of Ministerial positions determined by the Government at the relevant time to be Ministerial positions of Cabinet rank

B = the number of parliamentarians who are members of the Opposition and hold an office other than Shadow Minister for which the office holder’s salary is more than 25% of the base salary.

2.4.3 For the following persons, and in the following circumstances, the amount is 20% of the base salary:

a. the person is specified in the notice as a person to whom this clause applies;

b. the number of persons specified in the notice as persons to whom this clause applies does not exceed:

A – B – C

where

A = the number of Ministers specified in paragraph 4(b) of the Ministers of State Act 1952