Federal parliamentarians, judges and senior public servants will receive their first pay rise since before the COVID-19 pandemic after the Remuneration Tribunal decided to lift their wages by 2.75 per cent from July 1.
Elected officials and senior office-holders who fall within the independent tribunal's wages remit have had sporadic pay rises under the previous Coalition government and none at all since July 2019.
Throughout the last two years the Morrison government tied wages of most APS officials to the public sector wage index, which lead to the slowest wage growth in more than a decade.
