Almost 3 million workers will get a 4.75% pay rise in July. But wages can’t catch up with inflation

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Around 2.8 million of Australia’s lowest-paid workers will get a 4.75% pay rise from July 1 this year, after the latest Fair Work Commission annual decision on award wages.

Around 100,000 of the very lowest paid workers, on entry level and minimum pay, were singled out for an almost 6% increase, as rising inflation had left some of them unable to pay their bills.