Introduction
Each financial year the Commission reviews and sets minimum wages. These are the submissions for the Annual Wage Review 2024–25.
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Submissions to the Annual Wage Review 2024–25 are invited from all interested parties including individuals, organisations and academics.
Under the Fair Work Act 2009, we must make sure that everyone has a reasonable opportunity to comment on submissions.
Submissions are usually invited in 3 stages.
- Initial and/or post-Budget submissions – the first stage is for submissions that set out the initial position of interested parties, and submissions about what was in the Budget.
- Submissions in reply – the second stage is for submissions that respond to any submissions received in the first stage.
- Supplementary submissions – the third stage is for further submissions about information that we have published, including research or data.
We may also publish a list of questions on notice and invite interested parties to respond to or comment on these with their submissions in reply or supplementary submissions.
Additional stages may be needed if we want further information about something that may affect the Annual Wage Review.
How to make submissions
Any interested party, including individuals, organisations and academics, can make submissions to the Fair Work Commission about the Annual Wage Review each year.
All submissions should be made in writing. They should include the appropriate cover sheet for that stage.
Submissions must be sent to us in time to meet the deadlines set out on this page for each stage.
Submissions should be lodged by emailing them to us at awr@fwc.gov.au.
Publishing submissions
Under section 289 of the Fair Work Act 2009, we are required to publish all submissions made to annual wage reviews.
Submissions to the Annual Wage Review 2024–25 will be published on the Annual Wage Review 2024–25 page when we receive them.
You can use the search fields and filter in the document table in combination (in any order) to find relevant documents.
Confidential or commercially sensitive submissions
If you believe that some of the information in or attached to your submission is confidential or commercially sensitive, you should tell us this when you send it to us.
If a submission includes information that is claimed to be confidential or commercially sensitive, and the Commission is satisfied that it is, we:
- may decide not to publish the information, and
- may instead publish:
- a summary of the information which contains enough detail to allow a reasonable understanding of the substance of the information (without disclosing anything that is confidential or commercially sensitive), or
- if the Commission decides that it's not practicable to prepare such a summary – a statement that confidential or commercially sensitive information in the submission has not been published.
Submission deadlines
Initial and/or post-Budget submissions
The deadline for lodging initial submissions is 4 pm (AEDST) on Friday 4 April 2025.
Initial submissions should include an initial and post-Budget/ Supplementary submission cover sheet (docx).
Submissions in reply
including submissions about data or research published after 4 April 2025
The deadline for lodging written submissions in reply and any other submissions relating to data or research published after 4 April 2025 is 4 pm (AEST) on Friday 2 May 2025.
Submissions in reply and submissions related to data or research published after 4 April 2025 should include a submissions in reply cover sheet (docx).
Supplementary submissions
including submissions about data or research published after 2 May 2025
The deadline for supplementary submissions is 4 pm (AEST) on Friday 16 May 2025.
Supplementary submissions should include a post-Budget and/or supplementary submission cover sheet (docx).
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Questions
If you have questions about submissions to the Annual Wage Review 2024–25, please email us at awr@fwc.gov.au.
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