New pay structure
Graded pay structure for Officers and Warrant Officers is here thanks to the ADF Remuneration Reform
Project (RRP).

Reservists will now be taking more money to the bank.

The RRP continues to create a more contemporary and flexible pay structure for ADF members, as demonstrated by a new graded pay structure for Officers and Warrant Officers.
Most Officers and Warrant Officers will be placed on Pay Grade 2.

Those who have been receiving one of the four qualifications and skill allowances – flying, special operations, special action forces and submarine service allowances – will be in one of the higher grades, corresponding to the amount of the common scale plus the allowance.
Senior officers (CDRE and RADM) are now on a broad band pay structure but RRP changes do not apply to the Specialist Officers’ Salary Structure (doctors, dentists, lawyers and chaplains remain unchanged).

Acting Director-General Navy Personnel and Training, CAPT Daryl Bates, said while these allowances ceased to exist for Officers and Warrant Officers, and the underlying structure has changed, the amount of salary received would not change as a result of RRP, and the existing rules that applied to the allowances remain.
In particular, the rules governing sunset clauses remain in force.

CAPT Bates also said if people discovered their pay looked wrong on October 19 (most likely December for Reservists), to contact the personnel administration office (Military Personnel Administration Centre, unit admin, shopfront, or RRPM).
Now that the ADF has a graded structure for Officers and Warrant Officers, Defence has the ability to change the way it pays specific employment groups.
However, to move any officer employment group to a new pay grade, the ADF must conduct a full work value assessment, analyse the group against existing benchmarks, and submit a case to the Defence Force Remuneration Tribunal (DFRT) for consideration.

On September 28, RAAF Air Traffic Controllers became the first officer employment group considered by the DFRT for placement within the new structure. The DFRT is yet to hand down its decision in this case.
ADF Aerospace Engineers and all Navy Engineers are scheduled for DFRT consideration in late November.
Navy is developing a proposal to place all Officer and Warrant Officer employment groups in the graded structure for DFRT consideration in July next year.
Retention bonuses available to Navy Engineer and Seaman Officers were developed with the knowledge of the impending introduction of RRP and both are likely to cease once placement of these groups within the graded pay structure occurs.

Lessons learned in developing the officers’ case have been incorporated into RRP Phase Four to improve the Other Ranks pay grades structure. Results are expected next year.
For more details visit http://intranet.defence.gov.au/pac/ or http://www.defence.gov.au/dpe/pac/ and click on the Remuneration Reform Project link.

.