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Executive pay

July 2024

  • Shemara Wikramanayake

    Australian CEOs made less in 2023-24 but still earned on average 50 times a typical worker’s wage

    Audit finds chief executives of 100 largest listed businesses are more likely to be sacked than lose their bonuses

July 2022

  • Afterpay co-founder Nick Molnar

    Afterpay co-founders take home record $264m as Australian executive pay bounces back

    Amid sluggish wage growth, chief executive pay among the top 100 listed companies rises to about 100 times average adult earnings

November 2021

  • Macquarie Group CEO Shemara Wikramanayake.

    Australian executive pay ‘roars back’ with 70% increase for top 50, analysis finds

    Data shows Kogan boss’s pay up 1,400%, while Macquarie Group CEO’s package is highest at $15.97m

May 2021

  • Before and after composite showing part of the Juukan Gorge site that was destroyed by Rio Tinto in May 2020.

    Rio Tinto shareholders rebel against ex-chief executive’s £7.2m bonus

    Jean-Sébastien Jacques oversaw destruction of sacred Juukan Gorge rock shelters in Western Australia

December 2020

  • Josh Frydenberg during question time

    How Josh Frydenberg is backing the boss class amid capital-on-capital skirmishes

    Analysis: Changes weaken power of owners of money to hold managers accountable for bad decisions

June 2020

  • AGL’s head office in Sydney

    AGL says it will link bosses’ bonuses to lowering emissions

    Energy provider is first major Australian company to connect executive pay to net-zero goal

February 2020

  • AMP Limited Chief Executive Officer Francesco De Ferrari is seen ahead of the AMP Annual General Meeting in Sydney, Thursday, May 2, 2019. (AAP Image/Joel Carrett) NO ARCHIVING

    AMP chief gets pay rise of up to $1.8m despite company posting $2.5bn loss

    ‘If I don’t perform, I don’t get paid,’ says Francesco De Ferrari, of 66% increase in his potential bonus

September 2019

  • A piggy bank with money sticking out of it

    Australian CEO bonuses at near record highs despite royal commission

    The median bonus for ASX100 chief executives is $1.6m, the second highest in 18 years

October 2018

  • Tabcorp sign

    Tabcorp in first strike warning over bonuses as pay revolt continues

    A day after Telstra board was given a bloody nose, 40% of shareholders in gambling company reject remuneration report
  • John Mullen

    Telstra considers executive pay overhaul after investors' first strike against board

    Chairman John Mullen admits executive salaries are too high ‘across the board’
  • TRANSURBAN Chief Executive Officer Scott Charlton

    Australia's executive pay backlash hits Telstra and Transurban

    Telco and toll-road firm face shareholder pushback over bonuses and ‘oversized’ pay

August 2018

  • AMP Bank signage

    AMP's new chief could earn $8.3m in first year if he meets targets

    Scandal-plagued bank criticised for persisting with short-term incentivised pay

July 2018

  • Australian currency

    Most Australians' wages have declined but CEO pay is better than ever

    Workers in private sector, who are 85% of the workforce, are experiencing wages growth well below inflation
  • Australian dollars

    CEOs don't understand how angry workers feel about executive pay

    Osmond Chiu
    Are executives being rewarded for insecure work and wage theft? Sure looks like it
  • Don Meij at Domino’s Pizza

    Australian top executive pay up 12% and bonuses up 18%, survey finds

    Investors group says decision to pay large bonuses ‘tone deaf’ when overall wages stagnating

June 2018

  • Gina Rinehart, chair of Hancock Prospecting.

    The big con: how neoliberals convinced us there wasn't enough to go around

    Richard Denniss
    After the mining boom and decades of economic growth, how can Australia be broke?

December 2017

  • Former treasurer Wayne Swan

    Increase company tax based on executive pay, Wayne Swan says

    Commonwealth Bank head earned $12.3m last year – the combined pay of 250 tellers at the bank, former treasurer says

September 2017

  • Alan Joyce

    Qantas boss Alan Joyce's pay packet nearly doubles in year to $25m

    CEO’s huge pay bump comes after rise in company share price drove increase in performance-based incentives

August 2017

  • People walk by a Commonwealth Bank branch in Brisbane

    Coalition to crack down on banking industry executive pay

  • Don Meij

    Executive pay: top bosses scoop average of $5.7m a year as bonus boom keeps on giving

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