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<\/p>\nAlmost one in four Aussies will look to leave their jobs this year if they don\u2019t get a pay rise from their employer, a new survey claims.<\/p>\n
Around 23 per cent of working Australians insisted they would resign from their job in 2026 if they did not receive a pay rise, a survey of 1019 people by ADP revealed.<\/p>\n
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Aussies are no longer willing to put up with being underpaid.\u00a0Rob Homer<\/p>\n
The data also found more than half said they have been searching for another job, hoping to find a higher-paid role.<\/p>\n
As inflation and cost-of-living pressures hit households hard, workers are looking for their employers to help ease the burden, and younger Australians are leading the charge.<\/p>\n
The survey found 32 per cent of Gen Z and 30 per cent of millennials would look for new employment if a request for a pay rise was not met.<\/p>\n
\u201cRising cost-of-living pressures are reshaping employee expectations,\u201d ADP\u2019s Judy Barnett said.<\/p>\n
\u201cPay is firmly front of mind.\u201d<\/p>\n
While some businesses may argue the same economic pressures hitting their employees are also squeezing them, Barnett said there are some methods they can use to persuade their employees to stay if they cannot offer a pay rise straight away.<\/p>\n
\u201cAustralian employees are open to options such as one-off bonuses, additional paid leave, and grocery or shopping vouchers,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor organisations unable to offer immediate salary increases, these flexible benefits can help ease cost-of-living pressures while demonstrating responsiveness to employee needs.\u201d<\/p>\n
Australian minimum wage vs rest of the world<\/p>\n
Earlier this week, the Fair Work Commission made a ruling that from July 1, the minimum wage will rise to $1004.90 per week, or $26.44 an hour.<\/p>\n
Australia\u2019s minimum wage offering is one of the highest in the world, with its new offering being around $16 an hour higher than the federally mandated minimum wage in the US.<\/p>\n
However, while the minimum wage there is only $US7.25 ($10.12) an hour, several states offer baselines far higher than the federal offering.<\/p>\n
California\u2019s minimum wage, for example, currently sits at $US16.90 ($23.59) an hour, which is close to what Australia\u2019s previous offering was before today\u2019s increase.<\/p>\n
The highest minimum wage is offered by the tiny European country of Luxembourg, which sits at \u20ac791.25 per week, or $1284.99.<\/p>\n
The minimum wage in New Zealand is currently $NZ23.50, translating to $19.45 an hour. <\/p>\n
This means on the minimum wage, New Zealanders can earn $NZ1017.50, or $842.01, a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Almost one in four Aussies will look to leave their jobs this year if they don\u2019t get a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-713566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}