Annual Report 2004-05

Performance Pay

Defence is required, under the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit Requirements for Annual Reports June 2005, to report performance bonuses paid to Senior Executive Service (SES) and APS staff during 2004-05.

Senior Executives

No performance bonuses were paid to SES Band staff in 2004-05.

Non-Senior Executive Staff

Performance related pay is available to non-SES staff under the current Defence Employees Certified Agreement 2004-06. This salary advancement is within an employee's pay band of (usually) 3.8 per cent or, for an employee at the top of a pay band (or on a retained pay point), a lump sum payment of the greater of $500 or one per cent of the employee's rate of pay (adjusted for part-time hours, if applicable).

Salary advancement in the form of 3.8 per cent is not considered 'performance pay', although the lump sum payment to employees at the top of the pay band is considered to be a form of 'performance pay'.

The following table provides the aggregated amount of these performance payments by classification level, the average bonus payment and range for each level, the number of employees in each classification who received performance payment, and the aggregate bonus payment for the agency as a whole.

Note

1. The data in this table represents employees who were paid performance pay at any point during the financial year 2004-05.