{"id":1475,"date":"2026-04-29T14:02:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T14:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/1475\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T14:02:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T14:02:22","slug":"victorian-opposition-promises-new-cap-on-public-sector-executive-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/1475\/","title":{"rendered":"Victorian opposition promises new cap on public sector executive pay"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Victorian opposition is promising to introduce a salary cap for public sector executives, saying their pay needs to “meet public expectations”.<\/p>\n

The cap on base salaries would be set at just under $600,000 a year, which the Coalition said is currently the salary of the chief justice of the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

The current base salary for a department head is $620,994.<\/p>\n

The move is in response to the government approving contracts for several executives that were above those recommended by the Victorian Independent Remuneration Tribunal.<\/p>\n

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The opposition mentioned the salary paid to Transport Department head and former Victorian COVID-19 commander Jeroen Weimar. (ABC News: Danielle Bonica)<\/p>\n

The opposition said a Big Build executive was approved for a salary of $834,000, which it said was $260,000 above the maximum salary band.<\/p>\n

It also referenced the Department of Transport secretary, Jeroen Weimar, who earns up to $837,100 a year in the role.<\/p>\n

Liberal leader Jess Wilson said she wanted to “restore financial discipline” in paying senior public servants.<\/p>\n

“My team’s plan is about ensuring executive pay meets community expectations and that our priority remains on the essentials,” she said.<\/p>\n

“Whilst Labor is gifting quarter-of-a-million-dollar pay rises to Big Build executives, my Liberal and Nationals team is focused on hiring 3,000 more police to keep the community safe.<\/p>\n

“Under Labor, the number of public service executives has tripled, but crime is up, our roads are in disrepair, and it takes longer to get an ambulance.”\"Supreme<\/p>\n

The opposition said base salaries for public service executives would be capped at the same level as the chief justice of the Supreme Court. (ABC News: Shane Willner-Browne)<\/p>\n

Public sector pay levels for senior executives are set by the Remuneration Tribunal, which currently recommends a maximum salary of $573,328 for an administrative office head.<\/p>\n

The tribunal set the maximum salary for a department head, such as Mr Weimar, and the Victorian public sector commissioner at $837,100.<\/p>\n

Employers who want to pay a salary above the relevant pay band are required to seek and consider the tribunal’s advice, but do not have to accept it.<\/p>\n

The opposition said its cap would apply to new hires and any renewed or renegotiated contracts.<\/p>\n

It claimed the move would save more than $20 million by 2036.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Victorian opposition is promising to introduce a salary cap for public sector executives, saying their pay needs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[22,21,2546,316,2547,1667,2309,2545,976,2550,2150,2549,2548],"class_list":{"0":"post-1475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-austrlia","10":"tag-cap","11":"tag-election","12":"tag-government","13":"tag-jess-wilson","14":"tag-liberal","15":"tag-pay","16":"tag-public-sector","17":"tag-public-sector-executives","18":"tag-public-service","19":"tag-salary-cap","20":"tag-victorian-government"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}