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B/7.3 Remuneration and allowances

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Contact Officer

Principal HR Advisor (Policy and Workplace Relations)

Approval Date

07/12/2006

Approval Authority

Vice-Chancellor

Date of Next Review

01/01/2010

7.3.1 Salary levels
7.3.2 Payment of salaries
7.3.3 Allowances
7.3.4 Flexible Remuneration Scheme
Related Documents
Modification History

7.3.1 Salary levels

Salary levels are contained in the relevant enterprise bargaining agreements as follows:

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7.3.2 Payment of salaries

Salaries are paid into financial institution accounts on a fortnightly basis. Relevant forms and further information are available from the Finance and Resource Planning website.

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7.3.3 Allowances

Provisions relating to the following allowances for professional staff are contained in the QUT Enterprise Bargaining Agreement (Professional Staff) :

  • higher duties allowance
  • meal allowances during overtime
  • first aid allowance
  • sanitary allowance
  • tool allowance
  • field trip allowance
  • mileage for use of privately owned vehicles.

Provisions relating to the payment of higher duties allowance for academic staff are contained in the QUT Enterprise Bargaining Agreement (Academic Staff) .

The following allowances are available to staff in appropriate circumstances, and provisions for payment of the allowances, including amounts payable, are available from the Human Resources Department website:

  • Travelling - Australia and international - all staff
  • Mileage for use of privately owned vehicles – all staff
  • Travel away from home allowance(PDL) and limits on private income - academic staff only
  • Field trip allowance for academic staff (for field trip allowance for professional staff, see above);
  • Settling-in allowance – all staff.
Travel and mileage allowances are set by the Human Resources Director in accordance with rates determined by the Australian Taxation Office. Other allowances are varied from time to time by the Vice-Chancellor.

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7.3.4 Flexible Remuneration Scheme

The parameters of the flexible remuneration scheme are contained in the enterprise bargaining agreements as follows:

Information on operational aspects of the scheme is available from the Corporate Finance website.

There is a 50% maximum of total employment cost or total remuneration for salary sacrificing all benefits, except for superannuation where there is no maximum. Information on salary sacrificing of superannuation is available from the Human Resources website .

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Related Documents

MOPP B/7.8 Incremental progression

MOPP B/7.10 Salary loadings

MOPP B/7.11 Superannuation

MOPP G/5.5 Travel policy

MOPP Appendix 3 Schedule of Authorities and Delegations

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Modification History

Date

Sections

Source

Details

07.12.06

B/7.3.4

Vice-Chancellor

Updated policy relating to salary sacrificing for superannuation purposes

25.11.05

All

Secretariat

Policy restructured and renumbered to B/7.3 (formerly B/6.1, B/6.2 and B/6.6)

07.02.02

B/7.3.3

Human Resources Department

Updated terminology (PDL travel away from home allowance) consistent with revised policy

31.01.01

All

Human Resources Department

Updated

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