The Survey of Employee Earnings and Hours conducted in May 2000 collected information on employees' pay setting arrangements, e.g. by award, collective or individual agreements. 'Awards only' refers to employees who had their pay set at exactly the applicable award rate of pay. Employees classified to the 'collective agreements' category were those whose pay was set by a registered or unregistered collective agreement. Those classified to the 'individual agreements' category either had their pay set by an individual common law contract, or received overaward payments specified in an individual agreement, or were working proprietors who set their own rate of pay, or were employees on registered individual agreements.
Table 6.39 shows that the most common method of setting pay was individual agreements (40%), followed by collective agreements (37%) and awards only (23%). Accommodation, cafes and restaurants was the industry with the highest proportion of employees on awards (65%), and the lowest proportion of employees on collective agreements, while Electricity, gas and water supply (1%) and Communication services (2%) had the lowest proportion of employees on awards. Government administration and defence (78%), Education (77%) and Electricity, gas and water supply (77%) had the highest proportion of employees under collective agreements. Wholesale trade (77%), Property and business services (68%) and Construction (61%) had the highest proportion of employees on individual agreements, while Government administration and defence (7%) and Education (9%) had the lowest.
6.39 METHODS OF SETTING PAY, By Industry(a) - May 2000
|
| Industry | Awards only
% | Collective
agreements(b)
% | Individual
agreements(c)
% | Total
% |
|
| Mining | *5.9 | 39.7 | 54.3 | 100.0 |
| Manufacturing | 11.4 | 37.0 | 51.6 | 100.0 |
| Electricity, gas and water supply | *1.4 | 76.5 | 22.1 | 100.0 |
| Construction | 15.0 | 23.8 | 61.2 | 100.0 |
| Wholesale trade | 12.1 | 10.8 | 77.1 | 100.0 |
| Retail trade | 34.9 | 28.7 | 36.5 | 100.0 |
| Accommodation, cafes and restaurants | 64.7 | 6.7 | 28.6 | 100.0 |
| Transport and storage | 18.4 | 40.1 | 41.5 | 100.0 |
| Communication services | *1.5 | 69.4 | 29.1 | 100.0 |
| Finance and insurance | 5.6 | 49.9 | 44.4 | 100.0 |
| Property and business services | 20.7 | 11.1 | 68.2 | 100.0 |
| Government administration and defence | 15.3 | 77.9 | 6.8 | 100.0 |
| Education | 13.6 | 77.1 | 9.3 | 100.0 |
| Health and community services | 37.4 | 43.5 | 19.1 | 100.0 |
| Cultural and recreational services | 18.9 | 33.3 | 47.8 | 100.0 |
| Personal and other services | 27.1 | 42.8 | 30.1 | 100.0 |
| All industries | 23.2 | 36.8 | 40.0 | 100.0 |
|
(a) Classified according to the Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification (ANZSIC).
(b) Includes registered and unregistered collective agreements.
(c) Includes registered and unregistered individual agreements. |
Source: Employee Earnings and Hours, Australia (6306.0). |
Table 6.40 shows that of all occupations, Managers and administrators are the least likely to be covered by awards only (3%), and the most likely to be covered by individual agreements (74%). Professionals had the highest proportion of employees under collective agreements (51%), while Elementary clerical, sales and service workers had the highest proportion of employees under awards (42%).
6.40 METHODS OF SETTING PAY, By Occupation(a) - May 2000
|
| Occupation | Awards only
% | Collective
agreements(b)
% | Individual
agreements(c)
% | Total
% |
|
| Managers and administrators | 3.3 | 22.9 | 73.8 | 100.0 |
| Professionals | 13.2 | 51.4 | 35.4 | 100.0 |
| Associate professionals | 12.2 | 33.8 | 54.1 | 100.0 |
| Tradespersons and related workers | 23.1 | 32.0 | 44.9 | 100.0 |
| Advanced clerical and service workers | 14.2 | 20.9 | 64.9 | 100.0 |
| Intermediate clerical, sales and service workers | 29.9 | 31.4 | 38.7 | 100.0 |
| Intermediate production and transport workers | 19.1 | 48.7 | 32.2 | 100.0 |
| Elementary clerical, sales and service workers | 42.0 | 36.9 | 21.1 | 100.0 |
| Labourers and related workers | 36.9 | 34.6 | 28.5 | 100.0 |
| All occupations | 23.2 | 36.8 | 40.0 | 100.0 |
|
(a) Classified according to the Australian Standard Classification of Occupations (ASCO), Second Edition.
(b) Includes registered and unregistered collective agreements.
(c) Includes registered and unregistered individual agreements. |
Source: Employee Earnings and Hours, Australia (6306.0). |
Table 6.41 shows the average weekly earnings of employees under the various types of pay setting arrangements. Persons working under individual agreements had the highest average weekly total earnings ($787.70 and $728.10 for registered and unregistered agreements respectively). However, for males registered collective agreements were higher than unregistered individual agreements ($850.40 compared to $834.40), while for females registered collective agreements were higher than both registered and unregistered individual agreements ($591.80 compared to $562.60 and $575.80 respectively).
6.41 METHODS OF SETTING PAY, Average Weekly Total Earnings - May 2000
|
 | Ordinary time earnings
| Overtime | Total |
| | Base pay
$ | Payment by measured result
$ | Total
$ |
$
|
$
|
|
MALES |
|
| Awards only | 431.80 | *8.00 | 439.80 | 41.10 | 480.90 |
| Registered collective agreements | 769.70 | 6.10 | 775.70 | 74.60 | 850.40 |
| Unregistered collective agreements | 656.80 | *7.90 | 664.60 | 45.20 | 709.80 |
| Registered individual agreements | 878.80 | *9.20 | 888.10 | *26.40 | 914.40 |
| Unregistered individual agreements | 797.50 | 12.10 | 809.60 | 24.80 | 834.40 |
| Total | 725.70 | 9.20 | 734.80 | 45.40 | 780.20 |
|
FEMALES |
|
| Awards only | 369.70 | *0.80 | 370.50 | 7.80 | 378.30 |
| Registered collective agreements | 576.70 | 1.00 | 577.70 | 14.00 | 591.80 |
| Unregistered collective agreements | 430.00 | *1.40 | 431.50 | *11.50 | 442.90 |
| Registered individual agreements | 557.10 | *4.00 | 561.10 | *1.60 | 562.60 |
| Unregistered individual agreements | 566.70 | *3.20 | 569.90 | 6.00 | 575.80 |
| Total | 509.60 | 1.70 | 511.30 | 9.40 | 520.60 |
|
PERSONS |
|
| Awards only | 392.60 | *3.40 | 396.00 | 20.10 | 416.10 |
| Registered collective agreements | 674.10 | 3.60 | 677.70 | 44.60 | 722.30 |
| Unregistered collective agreements | 568.10 | *5.30 | 573.50 | 32.00 | 605.50 |
| Registered individual agreements | 762.90 | *7.30 | 770.20 | *17.40 | 787.70 |
| Unregistered individual agreements | 702.60 | 8.50 | 711.00 | 17.10 | 728.10 |
| Total | 619.60 | 5.50 | 625.10 | 27.70 | 652.80 |
|
| Source: Employee Earnings and Hours, Australia (6306.0). |
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