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Trends in Federal Enterprise Bargaining Report

September Quarter 2018

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Trends in Federal Enterprise Bargaining ReportInitial Tables

Table 1: Average Annualised Wage Increases for agreements approved in the September quarter 2018 which contained quantifiable wage increases (700 agreements)

Enterprise agreements approved in the quarter.

JuneQuarter 2018 (%)

SeptemberQuarter 2018 (%)

Change(% Points)

All sectors 2.7 3.2 0.5Private sector 2.8 3.0 0.2Public sector 2.5 3.4 0.9

Table 2: Average Annualised Wage Increases for agreements current on 30 September 2018 which contained quantifiable wage increases (7,470 agreements)

All current enterprise agreements

JuneQuarter 2018 (%)

SeptemberQuarter 2018 (%)

Change(% Points)

All sectors 2.8 2.7 -0.1Private sector 2.9 2.7 -0.2Public sector 2.6 2.6 0.0

Table of ContentsTable 1: Average Annualised Wage Increases for agreements approved in the September quarter 2018 2

Table 2: Average Annualised Wage Increases for agreements current on 30 September 2018 2

Table 3: Agreements approved in the quarter by sector 14

Table 4: Agreements current on the last day of the quarter, by sector 15

Table 5: Agreements approved in the quarter by agreement type 16

Table 6: Agreements current on the last day of the quarter, by agreement type 17

Table 7: Agreements approved in the quarter, by ANZSIC Division 18

Table 8: Agreements current on the last day of the quarter, by ANZSIC Division 21

Table 9: Agreements, by ANZSIC Division, expiring by quarter 24

Table 10: Agreements approved in the quarter, by state 27

Table 11: Agreements current on the last day of the quarter, by state 29

Table 12: Agreements approved in the quarter – non-quantifiable wage increases, by reason 31

Table 13: Agreements approved in the quarter, by union coverage 34

Table 14: Agreements current on the last day of the quarter, by union coverage 35

Table 15: Agreements approved in the September quarter 2018, covering 2,000 employees or more 36

Table 16: Agreements approved in the quarter, by state and ANZSIC Division 37

Table 17: Agreements current on the last day of the quarter, by state and ANZSIC Division 40

Trends Technical Notes 43

Further InformationTrends in Federal Enterprise Bargaining is available online at:jobs.gov.au/trends-federal-enterprise-bargaining

The Department recommends that Trends in Federal Enterprise Bargaining data be read in conjunction with the Technical Notes (appended to this document), which describe the calculation methodology for the calculation of the data and provide a guide to interpreting data tables.For other queries, please contact [email protected]

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Trends in Federal Enterprise Bargaining reportSummary

1. Wages growth under federal enterprise agreements September quarter 2018 - Tables 1 and 2 in Trends report

The average annualised wage increase (AAWI) for federal enterprise agreements approved in the September quarter 2018 was 3.2 per cent, up from 2.7 per cent in the June quarter 2018, and up from 2.2 per cent in the September quarter 2017.1

The 3.2 per cent AAWI result is based on the 80.2 per cent of agreements approved in the September quarter 2018, covering 69.3 per cent of employees, which contained quantifiable wage increases.2

For the 7,470 enterprise agreements current as at 30 September 2018 (that is, agreements that have not passed the nominal expiry date and not been terminated) that had a quantifiable wage increase, the AAWI was 2.7 per cent, down from 2.8 per cent in the June quarter 2018, and down from 2.9 per cent in the September quarter 2017.

2. Federal enterprise agreements – Proportion of Australian labour market coveredFederal enterprise agreements covered 30.2 per cent of all Australian employees as at May 2016. 3

In total, federally and state registered enterprise agreements covered 36.4 per cent of all Australian employees in May 2016.

1 - See Note 1 at the end of this summary for more details2 - See Note 2 (Non-quantifiable agreements) at the end of this summary for more details.3 - See Note 3 at the end of this summary for more details.

3. Comparison of AAWI, ABS Wage Price Index (WPI) and Consumer Price Index (CPI)

Chart 1 - AAWI in approved agreements, ABS Wage Price Index (WPI) and Consumer Price Index (CPI) – September quarter 2015 to September quarter 2018

Source: Department of Jobs and Small Business, Workplace Agreements Database; Australian Bureau of Statistics, Wage Price Index, Australia, Cat. No. 6345.0 – September 2018; Australian Bureau of Statistics, Consumer Price Index, Australia, Cat. No. 6401.0 – September 2018.

The ABS Wage Price Index (WPI) measures the price of wages in the Australian economy and is a key macroeconomic indicator. The stability of the WPI makes it the preferred indicator of wage trends for the ABS and Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA).

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is used as a measure of inflation, or the cost of living. It measures changes in the price of a 'basket' of goods and services which account for a high proportion of expenditure by metropolitan households.

4. AAWI - agreements approved in the September quarter 2018 and agreements current as at 30 September 2018 - Tables 3 and 4 in Trends report

Chart 2 - Approved and current agreements AAWI by quarter – September quarter 2015 to September quarter 2018

Source: Workplace Agreements Database, Department of Jobs and Small Business.Chart 2 (above) shows quarterly AAWI results for agreements approved each quarter since the September quarter 2015, and the AAWI for all agreements current at the end of each quarter.

Approved agreements

There were 873 agreements approved in the September quarter 2018, of which 700 contained quantifiable increases.

The AAWI for agreements approved in the September quarter 2018 was 3.2 per cent, up from 2.7 per cent in the June quarter 2018, and up from 2.2 per cent in the September quarter 2017.

The 3.2 per cent AAWI outcome for the September quarter 2018 is particularly due to a number of developments:

o Rises in wage growth across most industries.o High AAWIs in Construction industry agreements in the quarter.o Two large Public Sector agreements with AAWIs containing catch up wages. – see public

section.Current Agreements

There were 10,989 agreements current as at 30 September 2018, of which 7,470 contained quantifiable wage increases.

The AAWI for agreements current (not expired or terminated) as at 30 September 2018 was 2.7 per cent, down from 2.8 per cent in the March and June quarters 2018, and down from 2.9 per cent in the September quarter 2017

The outcome for current agreements is largely due to the cumulative effect of newly approved agreements over the past year and a half with AAWIs that are lower than historic levels.

5. Private sector wages growth – September quarter 2018 - Table 3 and 7 in Trends reportChart 3 - Private Sector AAWI – Approved and current agreements – September 2015 to September 2018

Source: Workplace Agreements Database, Department of Jobs and Small Business.

Chart 3 (above) shows the quarterly AAWI for private sector agreements approved each quarter since the September quarter 2015, and the AAWI for private sector agreements current as at the end of each quarter.

The AAWI for private sector enterprise agreements approved in the September quarter 2018 was 3.0 per cent, up from 2.8 percent in the June quarter 2018 and 2.4 per cent in the September 2017.

The industries with the highest AAWIs were the Rental, Hiring and Real Estate Services industry (7.9 per cent), Construction (5.9 per cent) and Administrative and Support Services (4.5 per cent).

The industries with the lowest AAWIs were Information Media and telecommunications (1.9 per cent), Wholesale Trade (2.0 per cent), Public Administration and Safety (2.1 per cent) and Education and Training (2.1 per cent).

Noting the Construction industry generally has a high AAWI result, the pickup in wage growth in the private sector is reasonably widespread occurring in 10 of the remaining 18 remaining ANZSIC industries.

The non-construction AAWI has risen steadily from the historic low of 2.1 percent in the September quarter 2017 to 3.0 per cent in the September quarter 2018.

Large quantifiable private sector agreements approved in the September quarter 2018 include:o NUW and AMSRO Market & Social Research Industry Agreement 2017-2020 (3,783 employees;

3.2 per cent AAWI)o BaptistCare NSW & ACT Aged Care Enterprise Agreement (2,866 employees; 2.6 per cent AAWI)o Linfox and Transport Worker Union Road Transport and Distribution Centres Agreement 2018

(2,325 employees; 2.4 per cent AAWI)o Utilities Management Pty Ltd Enterprise Agreement 2018 (2,161 employees; 4.0 per cent AAWI)

6. Public sector wages growth – September quarter 2018 - Table 3 in Trends reportChart 4 Public Sector AAWI – Approved and current agreements – September 2015 – September 2018

Source: Workplace Agreements Database, Department of Jobs and Small Business

Chart 4 (above) shows the AAWI for public sector agreements approved in the September quarter 2018 was 3.4 per cent, up from 2.5 the March and June quarters 2018 and up from 2.0 per cent in the September quarter 2017.

Large quantifiable public sector agreements approved in the September quarter 2018 include:

o AMA Victoria – Victorian Public Health Sector – Doctors in Training Enterprise Agreement 2018-2021 (10,530 employees; 4.5 per cent AAWI)

o AMA Victoria – Victorian Public Health Sector – Medical Specialists Enterprise Agreement 2018-2021 (9,482 employees; 4.5 per cent AAWI)

o Northern Territory Public Sector Teachers and Assistant Teachers’ 2017-2021 Enterprise Agreement (3,203 employees; 2.5 per cent AAWI)

o Griffith University Academic Staff Enterprise Agreement (3,157 employees; 2.3 per cent AAWI)o Murdoch University Enterprise Agreement 2018 (2,509 employees; 1.33 per cent AAWI)

The two above AMA agreements, which contain catch up wage increases to account for the fact that the last wage increase received by employees under those agreements was in December 2015.

7. State/Territories wages growth – September quarter 2018 - Table 10 in Trends report

Chart 5 (above) shows the AAWI results for each state and territory

AAWIs for agreements approved in the September quarter 2018 were highest in Victoria at 4.1 per cent. Agreements in Western Australia had the lowest AAWI at 1.8 per cent.

8. Wages growth for agreements that cover union/s and agreements with no union/s covered – September quarter 2018 4 - Table 13 in Trends report

Agreements approved in the September quarter 2018 that formally covered unions had a combined AAWI of 3.2 per cent whereas agreements with no unions formally covered had a combined AAWI of 2.2 per cent.

4 See note 4 for more details.

9. Level of agreement making, as at 30 September 2018 - Table 4 in Trends report

Chart 6 - Current agreements and employee coverage – September 2015- September 2018

Source: Workplace Agreements Database, Department of Jobs and Small Business.

Chart 6 (above) shows there were 10,989 current (not expired or terminated) agreements as at 30 September 2018, covering 1.89 million employees.

In terms of the number of agreements, this is lower than the 12,832 agreements as at 30 June 2018 and lower than the 12,912 agreements current at 30 September 2017.

In terms of employees covered by current agreements, the 1.89 million figure is lower than the 1.95 million employees covered at 30 June 2018 and but higher than the 1.76 million employees at 30 September 2017.

The fall in the number of agreements and employee coverage is due particularly to a seasonal pattern in the expiration of agreements, that is, agreements expiring on 30 June especially in the Construction industry. Expired agreements may be replaced in due course.

10. Non-quantifiable agreements5 – September quarter 2018- Table 12 in Trends report

Chart 7 - Non-quantifiable agreements, proportion of approved agreements and employees covered, September quarter 2015– September quarter 2018

Chart 7 (above) demonstrates the proportion of employees covered by non-quantifiable agreements is more volatile than the proportion of agreements that are non-quantifiable. This volatility is due to larger agreements (in terms of employee coverage) with non-quantifiable wage increases being approved in some quarters but not others.

19.8 per cent of agreements approved in the September quarter 2018, covering 30.7 per cent of employees, do not contain quantifiable wage increases, and thus are not included as part of the AAWI calculations. A non-quantifiable agreement is one that does not have consistent wage increases for all employees covered or wage adjustments are linked to other sources, such as the Fair Work Commission’s annual wage review or CPI or WPI movements.

Only one of the agreements approved in the September quarter 2018 that cover more than 2,000 employees did not have quantifiable wage increases. NSW and ACT Catholic Systemic Schools Enterprise Agreement 2017 (32,076 employees)

- Wage increases vary across locations in the agreement. Wage increases are either 2.5 per cent or 1.5 per cent, depending on the location of the teacher.

5 See Trends Technical notes for more information on why an agreement is Non-Quantifiable.

NOTES

1. All estimates are rounded and are subject to revision. Revisions have been made to historical series. AAWI data include only increases to the base rate of pay and do not take into account allowances and bonus payments that are paid separately from the base wage.

2. For the September quarter 2018, the calculated AAWI of 3.2 per cent is based on 700 agreements, covering 92,114 employees (that is, 80.2 per cent of the 873 agreements approved in the quarter, and covering 69.3 per cent of the total of 132,895 employees).

A total of 173 agreements, covering 40,781 employees (that is, 19.8 per cent of the 873 agreements approved in the quarter, covering 30.7 per cent of the total of 132,895 employees) have across-the-board wage increases that could not be quantified because, for example, different increases were given to different classifications, increases were based on individual performance or business unit performance. Refer to Table 12 in the Trends report for related data.

3. Context for the Trends in Federal Enterprise Bargaining report data on wages growth in federally registered enterprise agreements:

About one-third of all employees in Australia (as measured by the ABS 2016 Employee Earnings and Hours (EEH) survey) are covered by federal enterprise agreements.

Notes table: Instrument providing rate of pay for all employees, 2010-2016

Instrument providing rate of pay 2010 (%) 2012 (%) 2014 (%) 2016 (%)

Award 15.2 16.1 18.8 23.9

Collective Agreement (Federally Registered) 31.5 32.0 32.6 30.2

Collective Agreement (State Registered) 11.9 9.8 8.6 6.2

Collective Agreement (Unregistered) 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.1

Individual Agreement (Registered and unregistered) 37.3 38.7 36.4 36.2

Owner/managers of incorporated enterprises 4.1 3.3 3.4 3.5

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics Employee Earnings and Hours, Cat. No. 6306.0 (May 2010, May 2012, May 2014, May 2016), unpublished data – all employees.

Note: This table is not intended to be analysed as a time series. Figures are extracted from unpublished Employee Earnings and Hours, which may differ slightly to the ABS published data.

This table includes managerial-level employees. This accounts for all differences between this table and tables published in previous Trends reports. ABS classifies employees in the individual arrangement category if they have their pay set by an individual common law contract or arrangement, whether or not written, including where employees receive over-award payments.

4. An agreement is identified as being “union” where the decision approving the agreement notes in accordance with s201(2) of the Fair Work Act 2009 that the agreement covers the union(s) which has/have given notice under s183(1) that it/they want the agreement to cover them. It is recognised that this is a proxy measure as the data measure coverage rather than bargaining presence.

Trends in Federal Enterprise Bargaining ReportMain Tables

Table 3 - Agreements approved in the quarter by sector (September quarter 2015 – September quarter 2018)FOR AGREEMENTS APPROVED IN THE NOMINATED QUARTER

Sep-15 Dec-15 Mar-16 Jun-16

Sep-16 Dec-16 Mar-17 Jun-17 Sep-17 Dec-17 Mar-18 Jun-18 Sep-18

Public sector agreements 47 45 48 52 33 69 58 46 38 49 37 54 31Public sector AAWI (%) 3.0 3.2 2.6 3.0 3.0 3.2 2.5 2.5 2.0 2.3 2.5 2.5 3.4Public sector duration (yrs) 2.8 2.2 3.2 3.5 2.6 4.3 3.2 3.3 3.3 3.1 3.3 3.2 3.8Public sector employees ('000) 30.3 27.6 42.1 56.5 15.2 123.6 31.3 41.5 167.8 66.4 35.8 75.0 35.3Private sector agreements 1321 1230 956 1098 1653 1287 911 800 641 999 921 1056 842Private sector AAWI (%) 3.0 2.9 2.9 2.9 3.4 3.0 2.7 2.6 2.4 2.7 2.7 2.8 3.0Private sector duration (yrs) 2.4 2.7 2.6 2.9 2.9 2.3 2.9 2.9 3.0 2.8 2.8 2.4 2.4Private sector employees ('000) 163.6 196.9 71.5 98.4 129.8 122.6 120.5 72.7 68.4 83.5 90.7 193.4 97.6All sector agreements 1368 1275 1004 1150 1686 1356 969 846 679 1048 958 1110 873All sectors AAWI (%) 3.0 3.0 2.7 2.9 3.4 3.1 2.7 2.6 2.2 2.5 2.7 2.7 3.2All sectors duration (yrs) 2.4 2.6 2.8 3.1 2.8 3.3 3.0 3.0 3.2 3.0 2.9 2.7 2.8All sectors employees ('000) 193.9 224.5 113.6 154.8 145.0 246.2 151.8 114.2 236.2 149.9 126.5 268.4 132.9

Source: Workplace Agreements Database, Department of Jobs and Small Business.Notes:

1. AAWI = Average Annualised Wage Increase per employee.2. Agreement and employee estimates are for all federal wage agreements in the period, while estimates of AAWI per employee are based on quantifiable wage

agreements.3. * Where asterisk occurs, there are no quantifiable agreements in this quarter so no AAWI is calculable.4. All estimates are rounded and are subject to revision. Revisions have been made to historical series.

How to read: 31 public sector agreements were approved in the September quarter 2018, covering 35,300 employees. Their average AAWI was 3.4 per cent and their average duration was 3.8 years.

Table 4 - Agreements current on the last day of the quarter, by sector (September quarter 2015 – September quarter 2018)FOR AGREEMENTS CURRENT AT THE END OF THE NOMINATED QUARTER

Sep-15 Dec-15 Mar-16 Jun-16 Sep-16 Dec-16 Mar-17 Jun-17 Sep-17 Dec-17 Mar-18 Jun-18 Sep-18

Public sector agreements 466 482 496 525 457 493 521 540 462 493 498 530 494Public sector AAWI (%) 3.3 3.3 3.3 3.3 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.1 2.8 2.7 2.6 2.6 2.6Public sector duration (yrs) 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.1 3.3 3.4 3.4 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.5Public sector employees ('000) 621.1 626.4 607.6 604.2 552.1 573.4 527.2 520.9 569.3 615.4 616.3 669.4 692.5Private sector agreements 14673 14097 13900 13915 13767 14172 14039 13951 12450 12493 12235 12302 10495Private sector AAWI (%) 3.3 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.1 3.1 3.1 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.7Private sector duration (yrs) 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.0Private sector employees ('000) 1554.5 1611.8 1588.7 1560.3 1436.1 1486.7 1468.1 1358.8 1190.3 1196.3 1165.5 1287.9 1197.6All sector agreements 15139 14579 14396 14440 14224 14665 14560 14491 12912 12986 12733 12832 10989All sectors AAWI (%) 3.3 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.1 3.1 2.9 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.7All sectors duration (yrs) 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2All sectors employees ('000) 2175.6 2238.2 2196.3 2164.5 1988.2 2060.1 1995.3 1879.7 1759.5 1811.7 1781.9 1957.3 1890.0




How to read: 494 public sector agreements were current as at 30 September 2018, covering 692,500 employees. Their average AAWI was 2.6 per cent and their average duration was 3.5 years.

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Table 5 - Agreements approved in the quarter by agreement type (September quarter 2015 – September quarter 2018)FOR AGREEMENTS CURRENT AT THE END OF THE NOMINATED QUARTER

Sep-15

Dec-15 Mar-16

Jun-16 Sep-16 Dec-16 Mar-17 Jun-17 Sep-17

Dec-17 Mar-18 Jun-18 Sep-18

Multi-enterprise greenfields agreements 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Multi-enterprise greenfields AAWI (%) 1.6 * * * * * * * * * * * *Multi-enterprise greenfields duration (yrs) 2.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0Multi-enterprise greenfields employees ('000) 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0Multi-enterprise non-greenfields agreements 3 8 7 1 8 6 8 5 4 3 7 3 5Multi-enterprise non-greenfields AAWI (%) 3.2 4.4 2.6 2.5 2.5 2.8 2.5 2.5 2.7 2.2 2.1 * 2.2Multi-enterprise non-greenfields duration (yrs) 2.3 1.2 2.7 3.3 4.0 2.2 3.6 3.1 3.1 3.5 2.4 2.3 2.8Multi-enterprise non-greenfields employees ('000) 4.0 13.6 2.3 0.8 5.0 5.5 24.8 3.3 1.4 0.5 1.9 2.8 4.7Single-enterprise greenfields agreements 71 74 57 53 46 48 40 18 28 26 21 42 43Single-enterprise greenfields AAWI (%) 2.7 2.7 3.0 3.1 3.6 3.4 3.1 1.9 2.5 2.5 2.6 3.5 3.6Single-enterprise greenfields duration (yrs) 2.8 2.9 2.2 2.8 2.6 3.1 3.0 3.4 3.3 2.2 3.3 3.2 2.8Single-enterprise greenfields employees ('000) 3.4 3.1 1.7 2.4 1.7 1.6 4.6 2.1 1.4 2.4 1.7 2.3 2.2Single-enterprise non-greenfields agreements 1293 1193 940 1096 1632 1302 921 823 647 1019 930 1065 825Single-enterprise non-greenfields AAWI (%) 3.0 2.9 2.7 2.9 3.4 3.1 2.7 2.6 2.2 2.5 2.7 2.7 3.2Single-enterprise non-greenfields duration (yrs) 2.4 2.7 2.9 3.1 2.8 3.3 2.9 3.0 3.2 3.0 2.9 2.7 2.8Single-enterprise non-greenfields employees ('000) 186.5 207.8 109.6 151.6 138.3 239.2 122.4 108.7 233.4 147.1 122.9 263.3 126.0All agreements 1368 1275 1004 1150 1686 1356 969 846 679 1048 958 1110 873All AAWI (%) 3.0 3.0 2.7 2.9 3.4 3.1 2.7 2.6 2.2 2.5 2.7 2.7 3.2All duration (yrs) 2.4 2.6 2.8 3.1 2.8 3.3 3.0 3.0 3.2 3.0 2.9 2.7 2.8All employees ('000) 193.9 224.5 113.6 154.8 145.0 246.2 151.8 114.2 236.2 149.9 126.5 268.4 132.9



agreements.3. * Where asterisk occurs, there are no quantifiable agreements in this quarter so no AAWI is calculable.4. All estimates are rounded and are subject to revision. Revisions have been made to historical series.5. Agreement types – see “Types of Enterprise Agreements” section in Technical Notes at the end of this report.

How to read: Five multi-enterprise non-greenfields agreements were approved in the September quarter 2018, covering 4,700 employees. Their average AAWI was 2.2 per cent and their average duration was 2.8 years.

Table 6 - Agreements current on the last day of the quarter, by agreement type (September quarter 2015 – September quarter 2018) FOR AGREEMENTS CURRENT AT THE END OF THE NOMINATED QUARTER


Multi-enterprise greenfields agreements 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0Multi-enterprise greenfields AAWI (%) 1.6 1.6 1.6 1.6 1.6 1.6 1.6 1.6 1.6 * * * *Multi-enterprise greenfields duration (yrs) 3.0 3.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 0 0 0 0Multi-enterprise greenfields employees ('000) 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 0 0Multi-enterprise non-greenfields agreements 64 67 65 62 65 65 63 62 57 58 58 60 57Multi-enterprise non-greenfields AAWI (%) 2.5 2.7 3.0 3.0 2.5 2.5 2.6 2.6 2.7 2.6 2.6 2.6 2.5Multi-enterprise non-greenfields duration (yrs) 2.8 2.6 2.3 2.3 2.6 2.4 3.3 3.3 3.4 3.4 3.5 3.4 3.4Multi-enterprise non-greenfields employees ('000) 109.6 122.7 79.5 80.1 77.8 53.0 53.6 56.0 51.9 51.4 47.4 48.6 49.2Single-enterprise greenfields agreements 1581 1419 1334 1278 1167 1131 1076 981 794 713 623 545 456Single-enterprise greenfields AAWI (%) 4.3 4.0 3.9 3.8 3.6 3.6 3.5 3.4 3.1 3.0 2.8 2.8 2.9Single-enterprise greenfields duration (yrs) 3.3 3.3 3.4 3.4 3.4 3.4 3.4 3.3 3.4 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.3Single-enterprise greenfields employees ('000) 59.7 52.9 48.3 47.1 43.0 42.4 42.8 40.1 33.9 33.5 29.8 27.9 25.5Single-enterprise non-greenfields agreements 13492 13091 12996 13099 12991 13468 13420 13447 12060 12215 12052 12227 10476Single-enterprise non-greenfields AAWI (%) 3.3 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.1 3.1 2.9 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.7Single-enterprise non-greenfields duration (yrs) 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2Single-enterprise non-greenfields employees ('000) 2006.2 2062.5 2068.5 2037.2 1867.4 1964.7 1898.9 1783.6 1673.7 1726.8 1704.7 1880.8 1815.3All agreements 15139 14579 14396 14440 14224 14665 14560 14491 12912 12986 12733 12832 10989All AAWI (%) 3.3 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.1 3.1 2.9 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.7All duration (yrs) 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2All employees ('000) 2175.6 2238.2 2196.3 2164.5 1988.2 2060.1 1995.3 1879.7 1759.5 1811.7 1781.9 1957.3 1890.0



agreements.3. * Where asterisk occurs, there are no quantifiable agreements in this quarter so no AAWI is calculable.4. All estimates are rounded and are subject to revision. Revisions have been made to historical series.5. Agreement types – see “Types of Enterprise Agreements” section in Technical Notes at the end of this report.

How to read: 57 multi-enterprise non-greenfields agreements were current as at 30 September 2018, covering 49,200 employees. Their average AAWI was 2.5 per cent and their average duration was 3.4 years.

Table 7 - Agreements approved in the quarter, by ANZSIC Division (September quarter 2015 – September quarter 2018)FOR AGREEMENTS APPROVED IN THE NOMINATED QUARTER

Sep-15

Dec-15

Mar-16

Jun-16 Sep-16

Dec-16

Mar-17

Jun-17 Sep-17

Dec-17

Mar-18

Jun-18 Sep-18

Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing agreements 18 8 9 16 9 16 8 14 4 12 11 19 7Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing AAWI (%) 2.8 2.5 2.6 2.8 2.4 3.0 2.4 2.7 2.5 2.7 2.1 2.6 3.0Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing duration (yrs) 2.7 3.2 2.6 3.1 3.3 2.6 3.6 3.1 3.4 3.3 3.5 3.0 2.7Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing employees ('000) 2.0 1.8 0.3 0.4 0.3 0.7 2.5 1.6 0.9 0.7 0.7 1.1 0.7Mining agreements 35 32 23 25 26 17 20 29 18 33 24 38 20Mining AAWI (%) 2.3 1.8 2.2 1.6 1.6 2.3 1.4 2.3 1.9 1.8 2.0 2.2 2.2Mining duration (yrs) 3.1 3.2 2.6 2.7 2.8 3.5 2.6 3.4 3.5 3.1 2.8 2.8 3.6Mining employees ('000) 3.1 3.0 3.3 1.5 4.1 0.9 1.2 3.6 1.5 3.6 2.3 6.8 2.6Manufacturing agreements 292 180 166 180 215 250 158 161 112 203 151 138 145Manufacturing AAWI (%) 2.6 2.6 2.6 2.7 2.9 2.8 2.4 2.4 2.4 2.5 2.5 2.6 2.7Manufacturing duration (yrs) 2.6 2.4 2.5 2.7 2.5 2.4 2.8 2.8 2.7 2.9 2.9 2.6 2.7Manufacturing employees ('000) 16.1 12.1 8.8 11.6 11.3 14.5 10.3 8.5 7.7 15.2 8.5 12.0 10.3Non-metal manufacturing agreements 186 110 112 121 119 163 108 111 79 128 96 88 93Non-metal manufacturing AAWI (%) 2.7 2.6 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.8 2.3 2.4 2.4 2.7 2.5 2.5 2.4Non-metal manufacturing duration (yrs) 2.8 2.5 2.5 2.7 2.6 2.5 2.9 2.8 2.7 2.9 2.8 2.7 2.8Non-metal manufacturing employees ('000) 11.0 7.6 6.6 9.6 7.0 8.8 7.4 5.8 4.4 8.6 5.6 8.4 5.6Metal manufacturing agreements 106 70 54 59 96 87 50 50 33 75 55 50 52Metal manufacturing AAWI (%) 2.6 2.5 2.6 2.7 3.0 2.8 2.6 2.4 2.5 2.2 2.4 2.9 3.0Metal manufacturing duration (yrs) 2.3 2.4 2.4 2.5 2.2 2.4 2.6 2.8 2.7 2.9 3.1 2.4 2.7Metal manufacturing employees ('000) 5.2 4.5 2.2 2.0 4.3 5.7 2.8 2.7 3.2 6.5 3.0 3.6 4.7Electricity, Gas, Water, Waste Services agreements 51 47 27 23 27 27 25 24 24 38 24 37 34Electricity, Gas, Water, Waste Services AAWI (%) 2.8 2.8 2.2 2.3 3.0 3.0 3.5 3.2 2.3 2.9 3.1 2.5 3.2Electricity, Gas, Water, Waste Services duration (yrs) 2.7 2.5 2.9 1.7 2.4 2.9 2.9 3.0 3.1 2.9 2.6 2.9 3.3Electricity, Gas, Water, Waste Services emps ('000) 3.4 3.9 1.6 2.0 1.3 3.5 2.6 3.4 3.7 10.4 2.2 10.1 4.9Construction agreements 353 363 273 461 825 470 246 212 202 319 279 359 328Construction AAWI (%) 3.7 3.8 4.0 3.8 6.0 5.3 4.2 3.7 3.1 4.7 5.5 5.9 5.9Construction duration (yrs) 2.6 2.7 2.7 3.0 2.3 2.5 2.7 3.0 3.0 2.8 2.6 2.5 2.5Construction employees ('000) 10.9 9.5 7.9 10.3 18.7 8.4 3.9 3.2 4.5 9.4 7.8 6.8 7.3Wholesale Trade agreements 54 45 32 22 60 57 52 34 24 61 35 39 43Wholesale Trade AAWI (%) 2.8 2.9 2.4 2.6 3.0 2.7 2.5 2.4 2.8 2.6 2.8 2.7 2.0Wholesale Trade duration (yrs) 2.7 2.4 2.5 2.7 2.1 2.5 2.9 2.9 2.6 2.3 2.8 2.9 2.9Wholesale Trade employees ('000) 2.0 2.1 1.6 1.2 2.7 2.4 6.5 2.1 1.4 3.5 2.4 1.8 2.3

FOR AGREEMENTS APPROVED IN THE NOMINATED QUARTER

Sep-15

Dec-15

Mar-16

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Dec-16

Mar-17

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Dec-17

Mar-18

Jun-18 Sep-18

Retail Trade agreements 16 11 23 17 17 14 18 11 10 20 6 7 9Retail Trade AAWI (%) 2.9 2.3 2.9 2.0 4.2 2.7 2.4 2.4 1.1 2.3 3.0 2.9 3.0Retail Trade duration (yrs) 2.9 3.0 2.7 3.3 2.9 3.1 3.5 2.6 3.6 2.2 2.7 2.0 4.0Retail Trade employees ('000) 9.9 1.1 2.5 2.1 0.3 1.0 5.0 1.3 2.6 3.6 3.1 82.8 1.4Accommodation and Food Services agreements 31 34 20 21 27 28 21 15 16 4 4 15 3Accommodation and Food Services AAWI (%) 3.2 2.8 3.0 2.5 2.2 2.5 2.4 2.4 2.9 2.1 3.2 2.2 3.8Accommodation and Food Services duration (yrs) 2.3 3.6 3.0 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.2 3.7 3.7 2.7 2.6 3.5 4.0Accommodation and Food Services emps ('000) 2.2 3.7 1.8 0.7 2.0 1.8 1.1 0.9 2.5 0.6 1.8 1.5 0.1Transport, Postal, Warehousing agreements 122 117 91 83 85 90 79 71 52 87 73 111 89Transport, Postal, Warehousing AAWI (%) 3.2 3.0 2.8 2.8 3.1 3.0 2.8 2.1 2.0 2.4 2.2 2.7 2.6Transport, Postal, Warehousing duration (yrs) 3.0 3.0 2.7 2.8 2.5 3.1 2.9 3.4 3.3 2.5 2.9 2.8 2.7Transport, Postal, Warehousing employees ('000) 13.8 16.2 7.2 9.5 5.5 14.3 11.6 5.4 35.7 14.9 6.3 27.1 12.9Information, Media, Telecomm. agreements 10 14 11 3 6 10 10 1 4 4 3 8 6Information, Media, Telecomm AAWI (%) 2.1 3.0 2.8 2.3 2.4 2.0 2.1 2.6 1.9 2.1 2.2 1.6 1.9Information, Media, Telecomm duration (yrs) 2.7 2.9 2.2 2.6 2.2 2.9 2.2 2.3 3.5 1.7 2.8 3.0 2.4Information, Media, Telecomm employees ('000) 1.6 33.7 0.9 0.1 0.6 1.7 4.4 0.4 0.4 0.9 0.4 1.1 0.4Financial and Insurance Services agreements 11 13 4 8 13 19 6 5 4 14 8 13 6Financial and Insurance Services AAWI (%) 3.0 3.0 3.6 2.9 2.1 2.8 2.3 3.2 2.6 2.6 2.8 2.4 3.1Financial and Insurance Services duration (yrs) 2.5 2.9 2.6 3.0 3.0 1.0 2.6 3.0 2.9 2.9 3.1 2.5 1.9Financial and Insurance Services employees ('000) 2.8 56.1 0.6 15.2 32.0 34.3 0.8 7.8 0.9 3.1 1.3 1.4 0.5Rental, Hiring, Real Estate agreements 14 18 21 9 31 26 26 8 8 10 7 17 9Rental, Hiring, Real Estate AAWI (%) 3.6 2.6 3.3 2.0 6.0 3.7 2.7 1.8 2.0 3.2 2.7 3.6 7.9Rental, Hiring, Real Estate duration (yrs) 2.8 3.1 2.7 3.8 2.4 2.6 3.2 2.1 3.4 3.0 2.8 2.9 1.8Rental, Hiring, Real Estate employees ('000) 0.4 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.6 0.8 0.5 0.9 2.3 0.3 0.2 0.4 0.2Professional, Scientific, Technical Services agts 38 33 24 15 38 41 24 22 27 30 23 25 15Professional, Scientific, Technical Services AAWI (%) 2.8 2.6 2.7 2.7 2.7 2.5 3.0 3.5 2.2 3.0 2.7 2.7 2.3Professional, Scientific, Technical Services duration (yrs) 2.9 2.7 2.9 3.2 2.7 2.5 3.0 3.0 3.3 2.6 3.3 3.5 2.7Professional, Scientific, Technical Services emps ('000) 1.8 2.2 1.4 0.3 2.2 2.4 1.7 2.1 7.4 1.0 2.2 2.4 4.8Administrative and Support Services agreements 63 52 28 30 64 50 30 26 13 21 20 20 25Administrative and Support Services AAWI (%) 3.4 3.0 3.2 3.6 3.6 2.4 2.7 2.1 3.0 2.4 3.9 4.2 4.5Administrative and Support Services duration (yrs) 2.6 3.3 3.4 3.2 2.7 2.6 3.3 3.0 2.6 2.7 2.9 2.5 2.8Administrative and Support Services employees ('000) 4.2 3.9 3.2 1.8 3.1 5.0 3.1 2.7 0.5 1.4 1.2 5.4 0.6

Public Administration and Safety agreements 47 46 53 55 59 65 50 51 25 43 43 49 26


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Public Administration and Safety AAWI (%) 2.8 2.3 2.5 3.0 2.9 2.2 2.3 2.6 2.0 2.0 2.5 2.4 2.1Public Administration and Safety duration (yrs) 3.2 2.9 3.3 3.6 2.8 2.8 3.0 3.0 3.0 2.9 3.0 3.3 3.5Public Administration and Safety employees ('000) 10.5 16.4 39.0 52.7 14.1 27.6 17.0 13.0 51.3 41.0 11.1 32.4 10.0Education agreements 57 97 58 50 31 48 63 40 27 40 67 75 38Education AAWI (%) 3.1 3.8 3.0 3.0 2.6 3.3 2.5 2.2 2.6 2.6 2.5 2.5 2.1Education duration (yrs) 1.8 1.5 2.4 2.7 3.8 2.5 3.3 3.6 3.6 3.5 3.2 3.3 1.9Education employees ('000) 61.2 27.6 6.5 10.1 25.9 9.5 45.2 14.1 85.1 11.7 33.2 27.4 41.4Health and Community Services agreements 98 97 108 82 108 81 87 76 87 79 147 107 48Health and Community Services AAWI (%) 3.0 2.8 2.8 2.9 2.9 3.4 3.0 2.7 2.5 2.7 2.3 2.5 3.9Health and Community Services duration (yrs) 2.4 2.5 2.5 2.9 2.3 4.6 2.5 2.9 2.5 3.4 2.8 2.8 3.6Health and Community Services employees ('000) 28.3 20.5 22.9 28.6 17.3 109.2 24.7 38.6 23.0 23.9 36.0 45.4 29.7Arts and Recreation Services agreements 15 18 8 21 13 13 14 8 9 10 6 7 8Arts and Recreation Services AAWI (%) 2.7 2.7 2.8 2.7 2.7 2.7 3.5 2.4 2.2 2.5 2.9 2.8 2.7Arts and Recreation Services duration (yrs) 3.3 2.1 3.2 2.3 2.7 3.0 3.3 3.0 3.1 3.3 2.9 2.7 3.1Arts and Recreation Services employees ('000) 5.3 4.0 1.9 3.2 1.8 5.9 8.8 1.5 3.6 2.2 1.5 1.5 1.5Other Services agreements 43 50 25 29 32 34 32 38 13 20 27 26 14Other Services AAWI (%) 2.4 3.2 2.5 3.2 3.0 2.7 2.7 2.4 2.6 2.8 2.4 2.8 2.3Other Services duration (yrs) 2.4 2.2 2.4 2.1 2.9 2.4 2.9 2.4 2.0 2.7 2.9 2.9 3.0Other Services employees ('000) 14.5 6.2 1.8 3.4 1.1 2.5 1.0 3.1 1.2 2.6 4.0 1.0 1.3All sector agreements 1368 1275 1004 1150 1686 1356 969 846 679 1048 958 1110 873All sectors AAWI (%) 3.0 3.0 2.7 2.9 3.4 3.1 2.7 2.6 2.2 2.5 2.7 2.7 3.2All sectors duration (yrs) 2.4 2.6 2.8 3.1 2.8 3.3 3.0 3.0 3.2 3.0 2.9 2.7 2.8All sectors employees ('000) 193.9 224.5 113.6 154.8 145.0 246.2 151.8 114.2 236.2 149.9 126.5 268.4 132.9



agreements.3. The manufacturing category has been disaggregated into metals and non-metals industries.4. * Where asterisk occurs, there are no quantifiable agreements in this quarter so no AAWI is calculable.5. All estimates are rounded and are subject to revision. Revisions have been made to historical series.

How to read: Seven Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing agreements were approved in the September quarter 2018, covering 700 employees. Their average AAWI was 3.0 per cent and their average duration was 2.7 years

Table 8 - Agreements current on the last day of the quarter, by ANZSIC Division (September quarter 2015 – September quarter 2018)FOR AGREEMENTS CURRENT AT THE END OF THE NOMINATED QUARTER

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Jun-18 Sep-18

Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing agreements 137 138 141 150 134 147 143 155 136 141 141 149 137Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing AAWI (%) 3.0 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.8 2.8 2.7 2.7 2.7 2.7 2.6 2.6 2.6Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing duration (yrs) 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.2 3.2 3.3 3.3 3.4 3.4 3.5 3.5 3.4Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing employees ('000) 8.3 9.5 9.7 10.0 8.9 9.4 11.3 12.9 12.2 12.4 12.6 12.9 12.5Mining agreements 478 467 455 441 428 411 397 390 362 361 360 355 324Mining AAWI (%) 3.7 3.2 3.1 3.0 2.7 2.7 2.6 2.3 2.2 1.9 1.9 2.0 2.0Mining duration (yrs) 3.4 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.4 3.4 3.4 3.4 3.5 3.5 3.4 3.3 3.3Mining employees ('000) 56.2 52.3 52.6 49.9 50.6 46.9 43.4 41.0 38.2 39.0 38.9 40.1 37.2Manufacturing agreements 2526 2508 2485 2429 2284 2325 2292 2282 2007 2025 1992 1961 1706Manufacturing AAWI (%) 3.1 3.0 3.0 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.7 2.7 2.7 2.5Manufacturing duration (yrs) 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 3.0 2.9 2.9 2.9 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0Manufacturing employees ('000) 172.1 167.0 163.7 162.6 146.2 148.5 145.8 144.6 129.1 131.7 126.1 125.6 108.7Non-metal manufacturing agreements 1569 1568 1573 1538 1458 1478 1454 1452 1306 1310 1287 1266 1116Non-metal manufacturing AAWI (%) 3.0 3.0 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.8 2.8 2.7 2.7 2.7 2.7 2.6 2.5Non-metal manufacturing duration (yrs) 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 3.0 2.9 2.9 2.9 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0Non-metal manufacturing employees ('000) 110.6 106.7 104.9 106.2 99.1 100.4 97.8 97.7 86.8 85.6 82.8 82.5 73.4Metal manufacturing agreements 957 940 912 891 826 847 838 830 701 715 705 695 590Metal manufacturing AAWI (%) 3.1 3.0 3.0 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.8 2.9 2.8 2.7 2.7 2.6Metal manufacturing duration (yrs) 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 3.0 2.9 2.9 2.9 3.0 3.0 3.0 2.9 2.9Metal manufacturing employees ('000) 61.4 60.3 58.8 56.4 47.0 48.1 48.0 46.9 42.3 46.0 43.3 43.1 35.3Electricity, Gas, Water, Waste Services agreements 384 414 419 428 396 399 395 404 354 364 345 354 319Electricity, Gas, Water, Waste Services AAWI (%) 3.4 3.3 3.3 3.2 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.0 3.0 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9Electricity, Gas, Water, Waste Services duration (yrs) 3.0 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 3.0 3.0 3.0 2.9 3.0Electricity, Gas, Water, Waste Services emps ('000) 44.9 47.9 48.8 50.4 46.3 44.9 43.7 46.4 38.5 47.0 39.5 42.7 45.3Construction agreements 4598 3923 3857 3954 4307 4548 4557 4550 4196 4257 4282 4274 3378Construction AAWI (%) 4.2 4.0 3.9 3.9 4.3 4.4 4.4 4.4 4.3 4.3 4.5 4.7 4.2Construction duration (yrs) 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.1Construction employees ('000) 103.2 99.3 100.6 103.4 111.2 115.1 113.5 112.7 95.4 100.0 94.9 94.5 76.5Wholesale Trade agreements 531 540 533 506 467 488 506 501 448 471 458 460 414Wholesale Trade AAWI (%) 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 2.9 2.8 2.7 2.7 2.7 2.7 2.6Wholesale Trade duration (yrs) 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.8 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.9Wholesale Trade employees ('000) 36.2 36.9 36.4 34.0 29.3 29.2 33.7 33.2 27.9 29.9 26.9 27.0 25.9

FOR AGREEMENTS CURRENT AT THE END OF THE NOMINATED QUARTER




Jun-18 Sep-18

Retail Trade agreements 279 274 263 258 238 239 246 233 206 214 201 180 153Retail Trade AAWI (%) 3.0 3.0 3.0 2.9 3.0 3.0 2.9 2.9 2.8 2.8 2.5 2.5 2.3Retail Trade duration (yrs) 3.3 3.3 3.3 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.3 3.3 3.4 3.3 3.2 2.4 2.3Retail Trade employees ('000) 155.0 153.5 152.4 128.9 65.2 61.8 60.7 56.8 51.6 52.8 43.8 121.0 105.0Accommodation and Food Services agreements 431 436 431 432 419 413 405 388 352 327 296 295 247Accommodation and Food Services AAWI (%) 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.7 2.6 2.7 2.7 2.6Accommodation and Food Services duration (yrs) 3.5 3.5 3.7 3.7 3.8 3.8 3.8 3.5 3.6 3.6 3.6 3.6 3.6Accommodation and Food Services emps ('000) 160.0 160.4 146.3 145.0 143.9 143.3 139.5 37.6 31.4 24.0 23.5 23.8 20.8Transport, Postal, Warehousing agreements 1243 1268 1244 1232 1171 1190 1169 1138 1026 1034 1025 1019 951Transport, Postal, Warehousing AAWI (%) 3.3 3.3 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.1 2.7 2.6 2.6 2.6 2.5Transport, Postal, Warehousing duration (yrs) 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.1 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.1 3.1 3.1Transport, Postal, Warehousing employees ('000) 171.4 180.8 181.9 181.7 172.3 182.6 151.3 148.0 154.6 154.0 149.8 165.9 161.0Information, Media, Telecomm. agreements 113 111 109 102 94 94 99 93 81 73 68 68 59Information, Media, Telecomm AAWI (%) 3.2 2.8 2.8 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.9Information, Media, Telecomm duration (yrs) 2.9 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.9 2.9 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.9Information, Media, Telecomm employees ('000) 42.3 46.4 44.8 42.9 41.1 42.2 46.0 45.7 44.8 45.1 42.5 43.1 40.1Financial and Insurance Services agreements 133 140 132 131 122 134 134 131 105 109 113 120 104Financial and Insurance Services AAWI (%) 3.1 3.0 3.0 3.0 2.9 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.8Financial and Insurance Services duration (yrs) 2.7 2.7 2.7 3.0 3.0 2.6 2.6 2.6 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0Financial and Insurance Services employees ('000) 110.5 134.4 121.8 103.6 101.4 164.3 164.8 169.5 138.2 140.2 141.1 140.2 137.6Rental, Hiring, Real Estate agreements 277 269 281 269 272 278 291 285 258 243 228 225 182Rental, Hiring, Real Estate AAWI (%) 3.5 3.4 3.4 2.9 3.1 3.4 3.4 3.4 2.7 2.7 2.7 2.7 2.5Rental, Hiring, Real Estate duration (yrs) 3.4 3.4 3.4 3.4 3.3 3.3 3.3 3.3 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2Rental, Hiring, Real Estate employees ('000) 9.1 9.0 9.3 7.9 8.0 7.2 7.3 7.2 9.0 8.9 8.7 8.7 7.7Professional, Scientific, Technical Services agts 441 422 408 400 400 410 407 401 364 375 359 358 311Professional, Scientific, Technical Services AAWI (%) 3.6 3.5 3.3 3.3 3.2 3.1 3.1 3.0 2.7 2.7 2.7 2.7 2.6Professional, Scientific, Technical Services duration (yrs)

3.1 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.2 3.2 3.1 3.3 3.2 3.3 3.3 3.3

Professional, Scientific, Technical Services emps ('000) 37.7 36.7 35.3 34.0 34.4 30.3 30.5 29.7 31.1 29.8 27.7 28.9 30.6Administrative and Support Services agreements 573 566 565 549 543 570 566 567 478 469 454 440 362Administrative and Support Services AAWI (%) 3.7 3.6 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.2 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.0 2.9 3.0 2.9Administrative and Support Services duration (yrs) 3.1 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.3 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.4 3.4 3.5 3.4 3.4Administrative and Support Services employees ('000) 45.7 45.6 47.3 44.6 43.5 44.3 45.2 45.4 36.7 36.1 34.2 37.7 29.0Public Administration and Safety agreements 515 510 526 552 512 548 566 602 512 524 536 561 507Public Administration and Safety AAWI (%) 3.4 3.2 3.0 3.0 2.9 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.5 2.4 2.4 2.4 2.4Public Administration and Safety duration (yrs) 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2





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Public Administration and Safety employees ('000) 165.8 160.2 182.6 233.5 220.5 236.5 248.0 258.1 251.3 285.2 289.5 315.4 317.2

Education agreements 547 614 578 617 606 632 574 594 564 572 434 496 495Education AAWI (%) 3.7 3.7 3.7 3.7 3.4 3.4 3.3 3.2 2.8 2.8 2.7 2.6 2.5Education duration (yrs) 2.7 2.7 2.7 2.7 2.7 2.6 3.0 3.0 3.3 3.3 3.4 3.4 3.3Education employees ('000) 384.9 407.9 407.4 415.1 397.6 299.1 256.4 224.8 248.5 256.7 250.8 267.4 299.8Health and Community Services agreements 1395 1428 1440 1459 1326 1313 1291 1241 984 958 980 1051 931Health and Community Services AAWI (%) 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.2 3.3 3.3 3.2 3.1 3.0 3.0 2.9 3.0Health and Community Services duration (yrs) 3.0 3.0 2.9 2.8 2.8 3.4 3.3 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.4 3.4 3.5Health and Community Services employees ('000) 386.2 399.6 365.8 325.3 287.9 373.5 370.4 386.5 346.2 345.2 360.1 391.6 381.2Arts and Recreation Services agreements 138 148 137 150 137 143 141 141 138 141 136 136 113Arts and Recreation Services AAWI (%) 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.1 2.9 2.7 2.9 3.0 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.8Arts and Recreation Services duration (yrs) 3.0 2.9 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.2 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.2Arts and Recreation Services employees ('000) 41.9 42.9 41.4 43.7 36.4 36.3 43.7 38.8 39.1 40.5 40.4 40.3 33.4Other Services agreements 400 403 392 381 368 383 381 395 341 328 325 330 296Other Services AAWI (%) 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.8 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.8 2.8 2.7 2.6Other Services duration (yrs) 2.6 2.6 2.6 2.5 2.6 2.6 2.7 2.7 2.7 2.7 2.8 2.8 2.8Other Services employees ('000) 44.1 48.0 48.1 48.1 43.6 44.8 40.2 41.0 35.5 33.4 30.9 30.5 20.5All sector agreements 15139 14579 14396 14440 14224 14665 14560 14491 12912 12986 12733 12832 10989All sectors AAWI (%) 3.3 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.1 3.1 2.9 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.7All sectors duration (yrs) 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2All sectors employees ('000) 2175.6 2238.2 2196.3 2164.5 1988.2 2060.1 1995.3 1879.7 1759.5 1811.7 1781.9 1957.3 1890.

0Source: Workplace Agreements Database, Department of Jobs and Small Business.Notes:



How to read: 137 Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing agreements current as at 30 September 2018, covering 12,500 employees. Their average AAWI was 2.6 per cent and their average duration was 3.4 years.

Table 9 - Agreements, by ANZSIC Division, expiring by quarter (September quarter 2018 – September quarter 2021)FOR ALL CURRENT AGREEMENTS Sep-18 Dec-18 Mar-19 Jun-19 Sep-19 Dec-19 Mar-20 Jun-20 Sep-20 Dec-20 Mar-21 Jun-21 Sep-21

Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing agreements 14 14 7 29 7 4 4 15 5 7 2 4 9Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing AAWI (%) 2.7 2.8 2.6 2.6 2.9 2.7 2.5 2.7 2.8 2.6 2.0 2.9 2.2Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing employees ('000) 1.0 1.6 0.1 3.3 0.6 0.0 0.3 1.0 1.0 1.5 0.2 0.1 0.8Mining agreements 48 42 21 24 20 25 11 22 21 18 18 13 13Mining AAWI (%) 2.2 1.9 1.8 1.4 2.0 1.8 2.2 2.5 2.4 1.4 2.1 2.4 1.5Mining employees ('000) 5.5 4.0 2.1 4.8 1.8 1.8 0.8 1.5 2.7 1.6 1.3 2.0 2.1Manufacturing agreements 181 194 145 244 154 136 88 171 99 81 32 24 22Manufacturing AAWI (%) 2.9 2.6 2.6 2.6 2.7 2.4 2.3 2.4 2.4 2.5 2.2 2.3 2.6Manufacturing employees ('000) 15.3 11.3 6.7 15.3 9.4 6.6 5.2 12.0 6.3 6.2 1.6 1.2 1.1Non-metal manufacturing agreements 110 122 90 168 111 86 63 112 68 48 18 16 16Non-metal manufacturing AAWI (%) 2.9 2.6 2.7 2.5 2.7 2.5 2.3 2.5 2.4 2.7 2.3 2.5 2.7Non-metal manufacturing employees ('000) 7.3 7.5 4.7 11.5 6.9 4.2 4.7 8.2 3.8 4.1 0.9 0.6 0.9Metal manufacturing agreements 71 72 55 76 43 50 25 59 31 33 14 8 6Metal manufacturing AAWI (%) 3.0 2.7 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.4 2.4 2.3 2.2 2.3 2.1 2.0 1.6Metal manufacturing employees ('000) 8.1 3.9 2.0 3.8 2.6 2.5 0.5 3.8 2.5 2.1 0.8 0.6 0.2Electricity, Gas, Water, Waste Services agreements 32 29 30 36 25 21 18 31 16 17 4 7 6Electricity, Gas, Water, Waste Services AAWI (%) 3.0 3.6 2.4 3.2 3.0 3.2 2.4 2.3 3.0 3.2 3.0 2.3 2.1Electricity, Gas, Water, Waste Services emps ('000) 1.8 1.5 1.8 3.5 1.4 4.1 0.7 3.3 4.8 1.3 7.1 0.1 0.3Construction agreements 275 417 204 296 466 433 142 191 132 105 140 76 60Construction AAWI (%) 3.6 5.5 3.7 3.3 4.3 4.2 2.8 2.8 3.2 2.8 2.6 2.9 1.9Construction employees ('000) 7.1 12.2 4.0 6.1 10.9 7.8 3.6 4.2 3.3 1.7 4.8 1.5 1.1Wholesale Trade agreements 50 21 30 61 52 40 23 32 22 17 9 10 2Wholesale Trade AAWI (%) 2.6 3.0 3.1 2.6 2.6 2.7 2.4 2.5 2.4 2.4 2.5 2.8 2.0Wholesale Trade employees ('000) 2.3 1.2 1.7 3.8 5.7 2.4 1.1 1.6 0.9 1.3 0.4 0.9 0.0Retail Trade agreements 24 15 18 23 16 6 15 17 7 7 9 2 4Retail Trade AAWI (%) 2.9 2.4 2.9 2.2 2.7 2.2 3.3 2.3 2.3 2.0 2.4 * 1.5Retail Trade employees ('000) 14.3 1.0 0.9 3.2 2.3 0.3 1.3 4.2 0.2 0.7 3.8 0.4 2.5Accommodation and Food Services agreements 41 26 19 26 16 20 26 25 23 17 12 9 8Accommodation and Food Services AAWI (%) 2.6 3.0 2.6 2.5 3.0 2.8 2.2 2.9 2.9 1.9 1.7 2.9 3.0

FOR ALL CURRENT AGREEMENTS Sep-18 Dec-18 Mar-19 Jun-19 Sep-19 Dec-19 Mar-20 Jun-20 Sep-20 Dec-20 Mar-21 Jun-21 Sep-21

Accommodation and Food Services emps ('000) 2.9 2.1 1.9 1.4 0.5 3.1 1.0 1.1 3.9 1.1 0.5 0.6 2.0

Transport, Postal, Warehousing agreements 100 112 77 116 74 54 28 96 42 51 26 30 8Transport, Postal, Warehousing AAWI (%) 3.2 2.7 2.9 3.5 2.7 2.6 2.5 2.2 2.1 2.4 2.4 1.8 3.0Transport, Postal, Warehousing employees ('000) 12.3 6.5 10.8 15.8 5.1 7.9 1.7 22.4 34.0 5.6 1.8 5.5 1.2Information, Media, Telecomm. agreements 7 7 5 6 2 6 5 4 2 0 2 1 1Information, Media, Telecomm AAWI (%) 3.0 2.6 3.3 2.6 2.5 2.3 2.5 2.0 1.9 * 2.4 3.8 1.9Information, Media, Telecomm employees ('000) 29.4 6.0 0.2 0.6 0.0 2.3 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0Financial and Insurance Services agreements 15 10 2 20 10 5 2 15 4 7 2 2 1Financial and Insurance Services AAWI (%) 2.6 3.1 2.0 2.8 2.9 2.1 2.9 2.9 2.5 2.8 2.2 1.8 *Financial and Insurance Services employees ('000) 23.8 47.4 0.0 18.3 2.6 31.7 1.0 8.8 0.3 3.1 0.0 0.2 0.1Rental, Hiring, Real Estate agreements 23 24 15 27 23 14 15 14 8 1 7 2 2Rental, Hiring, Real Estate AAWI (%) 2.9 4.7 2.5 3.4 3.2 2.5 1.8 2.2 2.0 2.4 2.3 2.2 2.0Rental, Hiring, Real Estate employees ('000) 0.5 0.8 0.5 0.7 0.5 0.2 1.1 1.2 0.5 0.0 0.2 0.0 1.3Professional, Scientific, Technical Services agreements 26 30 30 37 28 26 18 39 12 22 7 10 5Professional, Scientific, Technical Services AAWI (%) 2.9 3.1 3.1 2.5 2.6 2.8 2.3 2.4 2.2 2.3 3.0 4.8 2.1Professional, Scientific, Technical Services emps ('000) 1.8 1.5 3.2 2.1 1.5 2.3 0.5 1.5 0.3 7.8 0.4 1.1 0.1Administrative and Support Services agreements 46 39 27 47 48 34 22 27 20 17 12 13 3Administrative and Support Services AAWI(%) 3.1 3.7 2.2 2.5 3.0 4.7 2.6 2.7 3.5 2.6 3.7 2.5 1.7Administrative and Support Services employees ('000) 5.7 2.8 1.2 4.7 2.4 1.4 3.3 2.1 1.0 0.6 1.7 1.0 0.1Public Administration and Safety agreements 39 46 47 80 19 55 23 68 25 22 11 7 6Public Administration and Safety AAWI(%) 2.8 2.2 2.1 2.4 2.5 3.0 2.1 2.2 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.4 2.8Public Administration and Safety employees ('000) 13.4 14.8 24.4 36.9 4.6 70.6 9.4 14.9 48.8 36.6 1.9 3.3 0.2Education agreements 23 82 31 27 22 62 14 25 20 46 28 17 1Education AAWI(%) 3.8 2.8 2.9 2.5 2.9 2.9 2.4 2.6 3.4 2.5 2.5 2.3 *Education employees ('000) 3.3 6.4 2.7 31.1 7.9 12.0 11.6 2.7 7.2 5.3 26.3 117.8 0.0Health and Community Services agreements 57 80 51 123 63 54 59 213 45 21 17 26 9Health and Community Services AAWI(%) 2.6 2.2 2.4 2.8 2.7 2.4 3.3 2.4 3.5 2.9 3.0 2.8 3.0Health and Community Services employees ('000) 13.4 16.2 17.1 48.2 11.6 7.8 63.7 66.8 46.0 5.8 9.1 10.3 0.6

FOR ALL CURRENT AGREEMENTS Sep-18 Dec-18 Mar-19 Jun-19 Sep-19 Dec-19 Mar-20 Jun-20 Sep-20 Dec-20 Mar-21 Jun-21 Sep-21

Arts and Recreation Services agreements 8 22 3 15 11 9 9 12 7 2 3 2 0Arts and Recreation Services AAWI(%) 2.8 2.8 3.1 2.7 2.9 3.1 2.6 2.7 1.9 2.5 2.9 3.0 *Arts and Recreation Services employees ('000) 2.6 2.2 0.1 3.3 13.3 1.7 0.9 3.7 0.8 0.1 1.4 1.3 0.0Other Services agreements 21 29 31 49 29 35 17 22 12 8 11 9 2Other Services AAWI(%) 3.0 3.0 2.7 2.5 2.7 3.2 2.8 2.0 3.0 2.5 2.1 3.1 *Other Services employees ('000) 0.8 2.4 2.2 5.4 1.4 1.4 0.9 2.8 1.0 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.0All sector agreements 1030 1239 793 1286 1085 1039 539 1039 522 466 352 264 162All sectors AAWI(%) 2.9 2.9 2.5 2.7 2.9 3.0 2.9 2.4 2.5 2.2 2.6 2.4 1.9All sectors employees ('000) 157.0 142.0 81.7 208.6 83.4 165.4 108.1 156.3 163.3 80.4 62.9 147.7 13.7




How to read: Nine Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing agreements, covering 800 employees, have an expiry date in the September quarter 2021. Their average AAWI is 2.2 per cent.

Table 10 - Agreements approved in the quarter, by state (September quarter 2015 – September quarter 2018)FOR AGREEMENTS APPROVED IN THE NOMINATED QUARTER


ACT agreements 16 12 16 20 14 17 13 6 16 10 11 18 5ACT AAWI(%) 3.0 2.8 2.7 2.2 3.0 2.3 2.2 2.6 2.5 2.3 2.1 1.9 2.9ACT duration 3.6 2.5 2.2 2.6 1.9 3.1 2.9 3.0 2.5 3.3 2.7 3.2 3.4ACT employees ('000) 5.7 0.5 5.2 0.9 0.5 0.7 1.5 1.1 1.6 1.0 1.7 1.8 0.2NSW agreements 299 244 183 216 195 215 175 165 150 264 287 262 197NSW AAWI(%) 3.0 2.7 3.0 2.8 2.7 2.6 2.5 2.5 2.3 3.4 2.9 2.8 2.9NSW duration 2.6 2.1 2.7 2.5 2.6 2.2 3.0 2.9 2.6 2.7 2.5 2.9 2.8NSW employees ('000) 28.8 21.9 15.3 11.5 16.0 19.6 35.5 21.0 19.3 15.2 31.3 64.6 10.0NT agreements 15 20 14 12 16 15 10 11 9 10 6 22 9NT AAWI(%) 3.0 3.0 2.2 3.3 2.9 2.7 2.6 3.7 2.5 1.3 1.9 2.5 2.4NT duration 2.9 2.4 3.2 2.5 1.9 3.2 3.4 3.2 3.1 3.5 3.0 3.9 3.9NT employees ('000) 1.2 1.9 1.2 1.1 1.2 0.8 0.4 0.6 0.5 1.5 0.4 12.3 3.6Qld agreements 208 210 167 190 192 132 151 111 91 137 113 133 95Qld AAWI(%) 2.7 2.7 2.7 3.1 2.6 2.5 3.0 2.6 2.4 2.6 2.3 2.4 2.5Qld duration 2.5 2.4 2.7 2.6 3.5 2.6 2.9 2.7 2.9 3.0 3.1 2.9 3.4Qld employees ('000) 25.2 20.8 15.5 13.4 34.1 8.8 17.4 13.3 12.1 13.2 14.9 13.2 7.9SA agreements 74 67 70 58 72 61 54 53 34 59 68 60 40SA AAWI(%) 2.7 3.2 2.6 2.6 2.3 2.7 2.7 2.2 2.3 2.7 2.3 2.1 2.9SA duration 2.6 1.9 2.5 1.7 2.8 2.8 3.1 2.9 2.9 3.2 2.9 2.6 3.3SA employees ('000) 3.8 4.6 3.7 4.6 5.6 3.8 6.6 2.8 10.0 6.6 12.0 5.7 5.7Tas agreements 40 35 20 35 28 35 26 14 11 22 28 43 30Tas AAWI(%) 2.8 2.4 2.2 2.7 2.6 2.8 2.3 2.7 1.5 2.9 2.8 4.0 3.1Tas duration 2.3 2.2 2.5 2.2 2.6 2.8 3.2 3.1 2.5 3.0 2.3 2.3 2.5Tas employees ('000) 6.3 3.3 1.1 2.3 1.7 3.6 1.9 1.5 0.6 1.0 2.4 3.9 3.6



Vic agreements 364 304 234 287 852 552 294 274 206 318 250 340 280Vic AAWI(%) 3.1 3.6 3.0 3.2 5.0 3.5 3.2 2.9 3.1 2.9 2.9 3.2 4.1Vic duration 2.7 2.2 3.1 3.6 2.4 4.3 3.0 3.3 3.6 3.2 3.1 3.0 3.6Vic employees ('000) 26.4 40.6 33.8 58.7 30.5 129.0 30.6 43.7 88.4 30.6 26.0 35.3 35.8WA agreements 157 143 115 97 89 103 103 73 59 92 85 87 75WA AAWI(%) 3.2 2.9 3.0 2.5 2.3 2.5 1.9 2.0 2.1 1.8 2.1 1.8 1.8WA duration 2.7 2.7 2.6 2.9 2.5 2.7 2.6 2.8 3.2 3.2 3.0 3.0 2.5WA employees ('000) 13.2 10.5 8.3 8.3 9.2 12.7 10.2 5.1 9.1 15.5 11.5 19.6 5.8Multi-state agreements 195 240 184 235 228 226 143 137 103 136 110 144 142Multi-state AAWI(%) 3.0 2.8 2.3 2.3 2.6 2.4 2.5 2.2 2.0 2.2 2.6 2.5 2.6Multi-state duration 2.1 2.9 2.9 3.0 2.9 2.0 3.1 2.9 3.1 2.8 3.1 2.2 2.1Multi-state employees ('000) 83.3 120.4 29.4 54.0 46.1 67.3 47.7 25.1 94.5 65.4 26.2 111.9 60.4Other agreements 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 0Other AAWI(%) * * 2.1 * * * * 1.8 * * * 2.5 *Other duration 0.0 0.0 2.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 4.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.0 0.0Other employees ('000) 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.0All sector agreements 1368 1275 1004 1150 1686 1356 969 846 679 1048 958 1110 873All sectors AAWI(%) 3.0 3.0 2.7 2.9 3.4 3.1 2.7 2.6 2.2 2.5 2.7 2.7 3.2All sectors duration 2.4 2.6 2.8 3.1 2.8 3.3 3.0 3.0 3.2 3.0 2.9 2.7 2.8All sectors employees ('000) 193.9 224.5 113.6 154.8 145.0 246.2 151.8 114.2 236.2 149.9 126.5 268.4 132.9


1. AAWI = Average Annualised Wage Increase per employee.2. Agreement and employee estimates are for all federal enterprise agreements in the period, while estimates of AAWI per employee are based on quantifiable wage

agreements.3. * Where asterisk occurs, there are no quantifiable agreements in this quarter so no AAWI is calculable.4. Figures for State and Territory agreements are based on intra-State agreements only.5. Multiple State agreements are those covering more than one State and include Australia-wide agreements.6. Other includes agreements operating in Australian external territories and agreements where the State/Territory status has not been identified.7. All estimates are rounded and are subject to revision. Revisions have been made to historical series.

How to read: Five agreements approved in the September quarter 2018 operate solely in the ACT. These agreements cover 200 employees, their average AAWI is 2.9 per cent, and their average duration is 3.4 years.

Table 11 - Agreements current on the last day of the quarter, by state (September quarter 2015 – September quarter 2018)FOR AGREEMENTS CURRENT AT THE END OF THE NOMINATED QUARTER


ACT agreements 309 298 229 202 185 188 190 190 135 134 128 143 135ACT AAWI(%) 3.2 3.2 3.1 3.0 2.9 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.7 2.7 2.6 2.6 2.5ACT duration 3.0 3.0 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.3 3.3ACT employees ('000) 40.8 40.2 43.3 43.4 37.3 37.7 37.6 38.5 16.0 16.6 17.7 16.5 16.5NSW agreements 2659 2687 2661 2675 2569 2603 2574 2591 2069 2129 2194 2292 2234NSW AAWI(%) 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.1 3.1 3.0 2.9 2.7 2.7 2.7 2.7 2.7NSW duration 2.8 2.7 2.7 2.7 2.7 2.7 2.8 2.8 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9NSW employees ('000) 268.3 279.9 277.9 281.4 269.2 274.6 267.4 258.4 213.7 201.9 208.9 257.4 245.7NT agreements 381 387 379 375 342 331 297 279 254 230 209 211 192NT AAWI(%) 3.9 3.8 3.8 3.7 3.7 3.6 3.5 3.4 3.3 3.0 2.8 2.6 2.5NT duration 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.2 3.2 3.3 3.7 3.7NT employees ('000) 22.2 23.1 23.9 24.7 23.6 23.7 21.4 21.2 16.2 12.2 10.7 22.0 23.9Qld agreements 2664 2474 2328 2327 2194 2176 2115 2078 1913 1883 1743 1746 1610Qld AAWI(%) 3.4 3.2 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.0 2.9 2.8 2.7 2.7 2.7 2.6Qld duration 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.8 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.2 3.2 3.3Qld employees ('000) 258.4 254.4 238.5 241.0 231.5 225.8 218.5 211.0 193.6 197.6 191.0 193.7 163.4SA agreements 880 891 878 876 820 814 789 803 709 705 701 710 600SA AAWI(%) 3.3 3.3 3.2 3.2 3.1 3.1 3.1 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.8 2.6 2.5SA duration 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.8 2.9 2.8 2.9 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.1SA employees ('000) 67.1 66.2 65.6 65.6 61.9 62.6 64.2 58.1 56.2 58.7 66.5 64.0 61.2Tas agreements 336 351 339 361 327 339 327 326 273 278 268 299 269Tas AAWI(%) 3.1 3.0 3.0 2.9 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.7 2.7 2.7 2.7 2.9 2.9Tas duration 2.6 2.6 2.6 2.5 2.7 2.7 2.7 2.8 3.0 3.0 2.9 2.8 2.8Tas employees ('000) 27.8 30.4 29.7 31.1 27.2 29.6 28.1 29.0 22.0 21.7 21.4 23.6 21.0Vic agreements 3655 3247 3172 3174 3513 3879 3981 3984 3658 3765 3768 3880 2670Vic AAWI(%) 3.3 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.4 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.4 3.4 3.3 3.3 3.2Vic duration 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.4 3.4 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.6 3.6 3.7Vic employees ('000) 581.9 586.5 558.3 540.2 512.1 513.4 510.1 517.7 524.1 532.1 527.5 544.0 522.3WA agreements 2278 2225 2187 2168 2007 1990 1941 1856 1590 1522 1408 1346 1177WA AAWI(%) 3.7 3.6 3.6 3.5 3.4 3.2 3.1 3.0 2.7 2.6 2.4 2.2 2.1WA duration 3.2 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.2 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1



WA employees ('000) 164.7 170.1 169.4 167.2 154.0 146.6 146.4 140.6 122.9 128.2 123.2 128.7 117.0

Multi-state agreements 1974 2018 2221 2280 2265 2343 2344 2381 2308 2337 2311 2201 2098Multi-state AAWI(%) 3.3 3.2 3.1 3.1 3.0 2.9 2.9 2.8 2.5 2.4 2.3 2.3 2.3Multi-state duration 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.2 3.1 3.1 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.0 2.9Multi-state employees ('000) 743.8 787.0 789.1 769.4 670.8 745.6 701.1 605.1 594.7 642.6 614.9 707.3 718.7Other agreements 3 1 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 4 4Other AAWI(%) 5.0 * 2.1 2.1 2.1 2.1 2.1 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.3 2.3Other duration 3.3 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.1 2.5 2.5Other employees ('000) 0.7 0.4 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.3All sector agreements 15139 14579 14396 14440 14224 14665 14560 14491 12912 12986 12733 12832 10989All sectors AAWI(%) 3.3 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.1 3.1 2.9 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.7All sectors duration 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2All sectors employees ('000) 2175.6 2238.2 2196.3 2164.5 1988.2 2060.1 1995.3 1879.7 1759.5 1811.7 1781.9 1957.3 1890.0


1. AAWI = Average Annualised Wage Increase per employee.2. Agreement and employee estimates are for all federal enterprise agreements in the period, while estimates of AAWI per employee are based on quantifiable wage

agreements.3. * Where asterisk occurs, there are no quantifiable agreements in this quarter so no AAWI is calculable.4. Figures for State and Territory agreements are based on intra-State agreements only.5. Multiple State agreements are those covering more than one State and include Australia-wide agreements.6. Other includes agreements operating in Australian external territories and agreements where the State/Territory status has not been identified.7. All estimates are rounded and are subject to revision. Revisions have been made to historical series.

How to read: 135 agreements current as at 30 September 2018 operate solely in the ACT. These agreements cover 16,500 employees, their average AAWI is 2.5 per cent, and their average duration is 3.3 years.

Table 12 - Agreements approved in the quarter – non-quantifiable wage increases, by reason (December quarter 2017 – September quarter 2018)

Linked to minimum wageAgreement Type Dec-17 Mar-18 Jun-18 Sep-18Single-enterprise non-greenfields agreements 40 36 40 16Single-enterprise non-greenfields employees (‘000) 1.1 4.6 87.7 0.4Single-enterprise greenfields agreements 2 0 0 0Single-enterprise greenfields employees (‘000) 1.0 0 0 0Multi-enterprise non-greenfields agreements 1 1 2 0Multi-enterprise non-greenfields employees (‘000) 0.1 0.0 0.3 0Multi-enterprise greenfields agreements 0 0 0 0Multi-enterprise greenfields employees (‘000) 0 0 0 0Sub-total agreements 43 37 42 16Sub-total employees (‘000) 2.1 4.6 88.1 0.4

Linked to CPIAgreement Type Dec-17 Mar-18 Jun-18 Sep-18Single-enterprise non-greenfields agreements 23 24 14 24Single-enterprise non-greenfields employees (‘000) 2.3 1.4 0.7 1.0Single-enterprise greenfields agreements 1 0 0 0Single-enterprise greenfields employees (‘000) 0.0 0 0 0Multi-enterprise non-greenfields agreements 0 0 0 0Multi-enterprise non-greenfields employees (‘000) 0 0 0 0Multi-enterprise greenfields agreements 0 0 0 0Multi-enterprise greenfields employees (‘000) 0 0 0 0Sub-total agreements 24 24 14 24Sub-total employees (‘000) 2.3 1.4 0.7 1.0

Inconsistent IncreaseAgreement Type Dec-17 Mar-18 Jun-18 Sep-18Single-enterprise non-greenfields agreements 62 45 49 47Single-enterprise non-greenfields employees (‘000) 5.4 8.6 9.5 33.4Single-enterprise greenfields agreements 0 1 3 1Single-enterprise greenfields employees (‘000) 0 0.2 0.1 0.0Multi-enterprise non-greenfields agreements 0 2 0 0Multi-enterprise non-greenfields employees (‘000) 0 1.1 0 0Multi-enterprise greenfields agreements 0 0 0 0Multi-enterprise greenfields employees (‘000) 0 0 0 0Sub-total agreements 62 48 52 48Sub-total employees (‘000) 5.4 9.9 9.6 33.4

Performance LinkedAgreement Type Dec-17 Mar-18 Jun-18 Sep-18Single-enterprise non-greenfields agreements 6 2 3 1Single-enterprise non-greenfields employees (‘000) 0.6 0.1 0.1 0.0Single-enterprise greenfields agreements 0 0 0 0Single-enterprise greenfields employees (‘000) 0 0 0 0Multi-enterprise non-greenfields agreements 0 0 0 0Multi-enterprise non-greenfields employees (‘000) 0 0 0 0Multi-enterprise greenfields agreements 0 0 0 0Multi-enterprise greenfields employees (‘000) 0 0 0 0Sub-total agreements 6 2 3 1Sub-total employees (‘000) 0.6 0.1 0.1 0.0

Other ReasonAgreement Type Dec-17 Mar-18 Jun-18 Sep-18Single-enterprise non-greenfields agreements 122 103 132 81Single-enterprise non-greenfields employees (‘000) 17.6 28.6 16.1 5.8Single-enterprise greenfields agreements 8 0 2 3Single-enterprise greenfields employees (‘000) 0.9 0 0.1 0.2Multi-enterprise non-greenfields agreements 0 1 1 0Multi-enterprise non-greenfields employees (‘000) 0 0.1 2.5 0Multi-enterprise greenfields agreements 0 0 0 0Multi-enterprise greenfields employees (‘000) 0 0 0 0Sub-total agreements 130 104 135 84Sub-total employees (‘000) 18.5 28.6 18.7 6.0

TotalsAgreement Type Dec-17 Mar-18 Jun-18 Sep-18Total non-quantifiable agreements 265 215 246 173Total employees covered by non-quantifiable agreements 28.9 44.7 117.2 40.8

Quantifiable agreementsAgreement Type Dec-17 Mar-18 Jun-18 Sep-18Single-enterprise non-greenfields agreements 766 720 827 656Single-enterprise non-greenfields employees (‘000) 120.1 79.6 149.2 85.4Single-enterprise greenfields agreements 15 20 37 39Single-enterprise greenfields employees (‘000) 0.5 1.5 2.0 2.0Multi-enterprise non-greenfields agreements 2 3 0 5Multi-enterprise non-greenfields employees (‘000) 0.4 0.7 0 4.7Multi-enterprise greenfields agreements 0 0 0 0Multi-enterprise greenfields employees (‘000) 0 0 0 0Total quantifiable agreements 783 743 864 700Total employees covered by quantifiable agreements (‘000) 121.0 81.8 151.2 92.1

Source: Workplace Agreements Database, Department of Jobs and Small BusinessNotes:

1. Non-quantifiable wage agreements are those which do not provide a consistent wage increase for all employees or link wage increases to other methods. Refer to the technical notes for further explanation.

2. All estimates are rounded and subject to revision. Revisions have been made to historical series.How to read: 16 single enterprise non-greenfields agreements approved in the September quarter 2018 had non-quantifiable AAWIs because wage increases were linked to minimum wage movements. These agreements cover 400 employees.

Table 13 - Agreements approved in the quarter, by union coverage (September quarter 2015 – September quarter 2018)FOR AGREEMENTS APPROVED IN THE NOMINATED QUARTER


Agreements (union covered) 903 883 666 798 1314 1028 686 595 497 789 738 851 684AAWI (%)(union covered) 3.0 3.0 2.7 3.0 3.4 3.1 2.7 2.6 2.1 2.5 2.7 2.7 3.2Duration (yrs) (union covered) 2.3 2.6 2.8 3.1 2.8 3.3 3.0 3.0 3.2 2.9 2.9 2.6 2.7Employees ('000) (union covered) 168.0 208.2 102.3 142.9 132.5 238.3 144.4 106.7 227.4 141.3 120.1 261.3 127.3Agreements (no union covered) 465 392 338 352 372 328 283 251 182 259 220 259 189AAWI (%)(no union covered) 2.7 2.7 2.8 2.4 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.4 2.3 2.4 2.2Duration (yrs) (no union covered) 3.1 3.2 3.2 3.4 3.1 3.3 3.5 3.3 3.5 3.2 3.4 3.3 3.2Employees ('000) (no union covered) 25.9 16.3 11.3 11.9 12.5 8.0 7.5 7.5 8.8 8.6 6.3 7.1 5.6All agreements 1368 1275 1004 1150 1686 1356 969 846 679 1048 958 1110 873Overall AAWI (%) 3.0 3.0 2.7 2.9 3.4 3.1 2.7 2.6 2.2 2.5 2.7 2.7 3.2Overall duration (yrs) 2.4 2.6 2.8 3.1 2.8 3.3 3.0 3.0 3.2 3.0 2.9 2.7 2.8All employees ('000) 193.9 224.5 113.6 154.8 145.0 246.2 151.8 114.2 236.2 149.9 126.5 268.4 132.9




How to read: 684 agreements approved in the September quarter 2018, covering 1,274,300 employees, covered a union. Their average AAWI was 3.2 per cent and their average duration was 2.7 years.

Table 14 - Agreements current on the last day of the quarter, by union coverage (September quarter 2015 – September quarter 2018)FOR AGREEMENTS CURRENT AT THE END OF THE NOMINATED QUARTER


Agreements (union covered) 9607 9023 8880 8936 8893 9389 9371 9386 8150 8346 8249 8459 6951AAWI (%)(union covered) 3.3 3.3 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.1 2.9 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.7Duration (yrs) (union covered) 3.0 2.9 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.1 3.1Employees ('000) (union covered) 1972.5 2030.3 1985.4 1953.2 1787.5 1865.5 1803.6 1695.3 1585.0 1641.9 1619.5 1800.5 1763.2Agreements (no union covered) 5532 5556 5516 5504 5331 5276 5189 5105 4762 4640 4484 4373 4038AAWI (%)(no union covered) 3.0 3.0 2.9 2.9 2.8 2.8 2.7 2.7 2.6 2.6 2.6 2.5 2.5Duration (yrs) (no union covered) 3.4 3.4 3.4 3.4 3.5 3.4 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.5 3.6Employees ('000) (no union covered) 203.1 207.9 210.9 211.4 200.7 194.6 191.7 184.4 174.5 169.8 162.4 156.8 126.8All agreements 15139 14579 14396 14440 14224 14665 14560 14491 12912 12986 12733 12832 10989Overall AAWI (%) 3.3 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.1 3.1 2.9 2.8 2.8 2.8 2.7Overall duration (yrs) 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.1 3.1 3.1 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2 3.2All employees ('000) 2175.6 2238.2 2196.3 2164.5 1988.2 2060.1 1995.3 1879.7 1759.5 1811.7 1781.9 1957.3 1890.0


1. AAWI = Average Annualised Wage Increase per employee. 2. Agreement and employee estimates are for all federal wage agreements in the period, while estimates of AAWI per employee are based on quantifiable wage

agreements.3. * Where asterisk occurs, there are no quantifiable agreements in this quarter so no AAWI is calculable.4. Under the Fair Work Act 2009, a union can be covered by an agreement even if it was not involved in the bargaining process. This data does not distinguish between

coverage and bargaining presence.5. All estimates are rounded and are subject to revision. Revisions have been made to historical series.

How to read: 6,951 agreements current as at 30 September 2018, covering 1,763,200 employees, covered a union. Their average AAWI was 2.7 per cent and their average duration was 3.1years.

Table 15 - Agreements approved in the September quarter 2018, covering 2,000 employees or moreAgreement ID Title Employees AAWI ANZSIC States

AE429570 NSW and ACT Catholic Systemic Schools Enterprise Agreement 2017 32076 * Education and Training ACT, NSW

AE429349 AMA Victoria - Victorian Public Health Sector - Doctors in Training Enterprise Agreement 2018-2021 10530 4.5 Health Care and Social Assistance Vic

AE429332 AMA Victoria - Victorian Public Health Sector - Medical Specialists Enterprise Agreement 2018-2021 9482 4.5 Health Care and Social Assistance Vic

AE429551 NUW and AMSRO Market & Social Research Industry Agreement 2017-2020 3783 2.2 Professional, Scientific and Technical Services Aus

AE500180 Northern Territory Public Sector Teachers and Assistant Teachers' 2017-2021 Enterprise Agreement 3203 2.5 Public Administration and Safety NT

AE500183 Griffith University Academic Staff Enterprise Agreement 2017-2021 3157 2.3 Education and Training Qld

AE429101 BaptistCare NSW & ACT Aged Care Enterprise Agreement 2017 2866 2.6 Health Care and Social Assistance ACT, NSW

AE429408 Murdoch University Enterprise Agreement 2018 2509 1.3 Education and Training Aus

AE429372 Linfox and Transport Workers Union Road Transport and Distribution Centres Agreement 2018 2325 2.4 Transport, Postal and Warehousing Aus

AE900053 Utilities Management Pty Ltd Enterprise Agreement 2018 2161 4 Electricity, Gas, Water and Waste Services SA




How to read: The largest agreement approved in the September quarter 2018 is the NSW and ACT Catholic Systemic Schools Enterprise Agreement 2017. It operates in the ACT and NSW, and is in the Education and Training ANZSIC. It covers 32,076 employees, and its AAWI is non-quantifiable.

Table 16 - Agreements approved in the quarter, by state and ANZSIC Division, September quarter 2018FOR AGREEMENTS APPROVED IN THE NOMINATED QUARTER, BY ANZSIC DIVISION

ACT NSW NT Qld SA Tas Vic WA Multi-state

Other Total

Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing agreements 0 2 0 1 0 2 1 0 1 0 7Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing AAWI(%) * 3.3 * 2.4 * 3.4 2.7 * 2.5 * 3.0Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing duration 0.0 2.8 0.0 4.8 0.0 2.3 2.0 0.0 3.0 0.0 2.7Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing employees ('000) 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.7Mining agreements 0 4 0 4 0 1 3 2 6 0 20Mining AAWI(%) * 2.5 * 1.7 * 2.4 2.5 2.1 2.2 * 2.2Mining duration 0.0 3.3 0.0 2.4 0.0 2.9 3.9 3.5 3.8 0.0 3.6Mining employees ('000) 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.3 0.0 0.2 0.3 0.1 1.7 0.0 2.6Manufacturing agreements 0 29 1 20 10 7 58 10 10 0 145Manufacturing AAWI(%) * 2.2 1.5 2.4 2.7 2.7 3.3 1.7 2.6 * 2.7Manufacturing duration 0.0 2.1 3.0 3.2 2.6 3.0 3.0 2.5 2.8 0.0 2.7Manufacturing employees ('000) 0.0 2.1 0.0 1.6 0.4 0.3 3.3 1.1 1.6 0.0 10.3Non-metal manufacturing agreements 0 16 1 16 7 7 35 7 4 0 93Non-metal manufacturing AAWI(%) * 1.8 1.5 2.4 2.9 2.7 2.6 1.4 4.0 * 2.4Non-metal manufacturing duration 0.0 2.7 3.0 3.2 2.7 3.0 2.9 2.1 2.4 0.0 2.8Non-metal manufacturing employees ('000) 0.0 0.9 0.0 1.4 0.3 0.3 1.6 0.8 0.2 0.0 5.6Metal manufacturing agreements 0 13 0 4 3 0 23 3 6 0 52Metal manufacturing AAWI(%) * 2.5 * 3.2 1.9 * 3.9 2.3 2.4 * 3.0Metal manufacturing duration 0.0 1.6 0.0 2.7 2.2 0.0 3.2 3.8 2.8 0.0 2.7Metal manufacturing employees ('000) 0.0 1.2 0.0 0.2 0.1 0.0 1.7 0.2 1.4 0.0 4.7Electricity, Gas, Water, Waste Services agreements 0 11 0 6 5 0 7 3 2 0 34Electricity, Gas, Water, Waste Services AAWI(%) * 3.5 * 2.9 3.0 * 4.1 1.8 2.3 * 3.2Electricity, Gas, Water, Waste Services duration 0.0 2.3 0.0 3.0 3.3 0.0 3.5 3.5 3.6 0.0 3.3Electricity, Gas, Water, Waste Services emps ('000) 0.0 0.3 0.0 0.3 3.6 0.0 0.6 0.1 0.1 0.0 4.9Construction agreements 2 67 1 20 7 6 134 18 72 0 327Construction AAWI(%) 4.0 4.8 * 3.4 2.4 5.0 7.1 2.0 7.6 * 5.9Construction duration 2.0 2.5 3.7 2.2 3.6 2.3 2.5 3.0 2.3 0.0 2.5Construction employees ('000) 0.0 1.4 0.0 0.4 0.1 0.3 2.3 0.6 2.1 0.0 7.2Wholesale Trade agreements 0 12 1 4 0 3 8 8 7 0 43Wholesale Trade AAWI(%) * 3.0 1.8 2.6 * 2.5 3.0 1.6 1.3 * 2.0Wholesale Trade duration 0.0 2.8 3.3 2.8 0.0 3.5 2.9 2.1 3.2 0.0 2.9Wholesale Trade employees ('000) 0.0 0.5 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.3 0.1 0.6 0.7 0.0 2.3

FOR AGREEMENTS APPROVED IN THE NOMINATED QUARTER, BY ANZSIC DIVISION


Other Total

Retail Trade agreements 0 0 0 1 2 0 3 1 2 0 9Retail Trade AAWI(%) * * * 2.8 3.3 * 3.2 * 1.4 * 3.0Retail Trade duration 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.0 4.5 0.0 3.9 4.0 3.4 0.0 4.0Retail Trade employees ('000) 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.7 0.0 0.3 0.0 0.3 0.0 1.4Accommodation and Food Services agreements 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 4Accommodation and Food Services AAWI(%) * * * * * * 3.8 * * * 7.3Accommodation and Food Services duration 4.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.9Accommodation and Food Services emps ('000) 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2Transport, Postal, Warehousing agreements 0 23 2 10 5 3 15 15 16 0 89Transport, Postal, Warehousing AAWI(%) * 2.5 2.0 2.9 2.9 3.9 3.0 2.4 2.5 * 2.6Transport, Postal, Warehousing duration 0.0 3.4 2.8 3.1 2.7 0.8 2.8 2.4 2.5 0.0 2.7Transport, Postal, Warehousing employees ('000) 0.0 2.1 0.0 0.5 0.3 0.2 1.1 0.8 7.8 0.0 12.9Information, Media, Telecomm. agreements 0 3 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 6Information, Media, Telecomm AAWI(%) * * * * * * 2.3 * 1.8 * 1.9Information, Media, Telecomm duration 0.0 2.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.0 0.0 3.0 0.0 2.4Information, Media, Telecomm employees ('000) 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.4Financial and Insurance Services agreements 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 2 0 6Financial and Insurance Services AAWI(%) * 2.5 * 3.6 * * 2.9 * 2.0 * 3.1Financial and Insurance Services duration 0.0 3.0 0.0 1.3 0.0 0.0 1.9 0.0 2.7 0.0 1.9Financial and Insurance Services employees ('000) 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.5Rental, Hiring, Real Estate agreements 0 5 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 9Rental, Hiring, Real Estate AAWI(%) * 5.7 * * * * 10.3 * 2.8 * 7.9Rental, Hiring, Real Estate duration 0.0 1.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 3.5 4.2 0.0 1.8Rental, Hiring, Real Estate employees ('000) 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2Professional, Scientific, Technical Services agreements 0 2 0 2 0 0 5 1 5 0 15Professional, Scientific, Technical Services AAWI(%) * 2.0 * 2.9 * * 2.3 * 2.3 * 2.3Professional, Scientific, Technical Services duration 0.0 3.1 0.0 2.2 0.0 0.0 2.7 4.0 2.7 0.0 2.7Professional, Scientific, Technical Services emps ('000) 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.6 0.0 4.1 0.0 4.8Administrative and Support Services agreements 0 8 0 4 2 0 6 0 5 0 25Administrative and Support Services AAWI(%) * 5.9 * 5.2 2.8 * 4.5 * 3.8 * 4.5Administrative and Support Services duration 0.0 2.3 0.0 3.1 2.1 0.0 2.6 0.0 3.5 0.0 2.8Administrative and Support Services employees ('000) 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.6

Public Administration and Safety agreements 0 4 2 4 1 0 8 4 3 0 26

FOR AGREEMENTS APPROVED IN THE NOMINATED QUARTER, BY ANZSIC DIVISION


Other Total

Public Administration and Safety AAWI(%) * 2.0 2.5 3.1 2.1 * 2.1 1.7 1.9 * 2.1Public Administration and Safety duration 0.0 3.0 3.9 3.8 3.0 0.0 3.7 2.4 3.0 0.0 3.5Public Administration and Safety employees ('000) 0.0 0.4 3.4 0.2 0.1 0.0 2.5 0.2 3.3 0.0 10.0Education agreements 0 11 0 14 0 2 4 3 4 0 38Education AAWI(%) * 2.6 * 2.3 * 2.3 3.7 1.0 1.4 * 2.1Education duration 0.0 3.8 0.0 4.1 0.0 2.4 3.4 2.2 1.6 0.0 1.9Education employees ('000) 0.0 0.8 0.0 3.3 0.0 0.3 1.3 0.7 35.0 0.0 41.4Health and Community Services agreements 1 8 2 2 6 5 16 6 2 0 48Health and Community Services AAWI(%) * 2.7 1.9 1.9 2.4 2.9 4.4 1.8 2.6 * 3.9Health and Community Services duration 3.5 2.8 2.5 4.1 3.0 2.5 4.0 2.6 2.4 0.0 3.6Health and Community Services employees ('000) 0.0 1.5 0.2 0.3 0.3 1.8 21.3 1.4 3.0 0.0 29.7Arts and Recreation Services agreements 0 2 0 0 1 1 3 0 1 0 8Arts and Recreation Services AAWI(%) * 2.5 * * 1.5 2.8 2.8 * 2.0 * 2.7Arts and Recreation Services duration 0.0 1.7 0.0 0.0 3.0 3.0 3.3 0.0 3.0 0.0 3.1Arts and Recreation Services employees ('000) 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.5Other Services agreements 1 4 0 2 1 0 2 2 2 0 14Other Services AAWI(%) 2.5 2.5 * 1.7 1.9 * 3.3 3.0 2.5 * 2.3Other Services duration 4.0 2.6 0.0 3.2 3.0 0.0 2.6 1.9 3.8 0.0 3.0Other Services employees ('000) 0.1 0.2 0.0 0.2 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.3 0.0 1.3All sector agreements 5 197 9 95 40 30 280 75 142 0 873All sectors AAWI(%) 2.9 2.9 2.4 2.5 2.9 3.1 4.1 1.8 2.6 * 2.7All sectors duration 3.4 2.8 3.9 3.4 3.3 2.5 3.6 2.5 2.1 0.0 2.8All sectors employees ('000) 0.2 10.0 3.6 7.9 5.7 3.6 35.8 5.8 60.4 0.0 132.9




How to read: Of the seven Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing agreements approved in the September quarter 2018, two operate in NSW. These agreements cover 100 employees, their average AAWI is 3.3 per cent, and their average duration is 2.8 years.

Table 17 - Agreements current on the last day of the quarter, by state and ANZSIC Division, September quarter 2018FOR AGREEMENTS CURRENT AT THE END OF THE NOMINATED QUARTER


Other Total

Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing agreements 0 37 4 27 12 14 19 14 10 0 137Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing AAWI(%) * 2.7 2.2 2.6 2.1 3.2 2.6 2.2 2.5 * 2.6Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing duration 0.0 3.3 3.8 4.2 3.4 2.5 3.2 3.5 3.4 0.0 3.4Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing employees ('000) 0.0 4.6 0.0 2.4 0.9 1.1 1.2 0.6 1.7 0.0 12.5Mining agreements 1 84 2 72 14 6 16 57 71 1 324Mining AAWI(%) * 2.0 2.0 1.8 2.5 2.6 2.4 2.1 2.5 2.1 2.0Mining duration 4.0 3.0 2.9 3.2 4.0 2.3 3.8 3.7 3.7 2.9 3.3Mining employees ('000) 0.0 10.3 0.6 11.0 1.3 0.7 0.8 4.8 7.5 0.1 37.2Manufacturing agreements 5 392 12 284 116 54 584 124 135 0 1706Manufacturing AAWI(%) 2.3 2.5 3.4 2.4 2.3 2.9 2.7 1.9 2.7 * 2.5Manufacturing duration 2.8 2.8 3.7 3.1 3.0 2.9 2.9 3.2 3.2 0.0 3.0Manufacturing employees ('000) 0.1 22.8 0.3 19.0 9.8 2.9 33.7 6.3 13.7 0.0 108.7Non-metal manufacturing agreements 3 271 6 191 83 40 384 74 64 0 1116Non-metal manufacturing AAWI(%) 2.1 2.6 3.0 2.4 2.4 2.9 2.6 1.8 2.8 * 2.5Non-metal manufacturing duration 2.6 2.9 3.6 3.2 3.0 2.9 2.9 3.0 3.3 0.0 3.0Non-metal manufacturing employees ('000) 0.1 16.0 0.2 15.3 6.3 2.1 22.0 3.6 7.8 0.0 73.4Metal manufacturing agreements 2 121 6 93 33 14 200 50 71 0 590Metal manufacturing AAWI(%) 3.0 2.4 4.2 2.4 2.0 2.6 2.9 2.0 2.5 * 2.6Metal manufacturing duration 3.1 2.6 3.7 2.9 3.1 3.1 2.9 3.4 3.1 0.0 2.9Metal manufacturing employees ('000) 0.0 6.9 0.2 3.7 3.5 0.8 11.7 2.7 5.9 0.0 35.3Electricity, Gas, Water, Waste Services agreements 5 89 1 53 17 3 85 45 21 0 319Electricity, Gas, Water, Waste Services AAWI(%) 2.9 2.4 1.3 3.0 3.0 2.6 3.5 2.1 3.1 * 2.9Electricity, Gas, Water, Waste Services duration 3.0 3.0 3.0 2.9 3.3 3.4 3.0 2.8 3.0 0.0 3.0Electricity, Gas, Water, Waste Services emps ('000) 1.1 11.6 0.0 3.8 4.4 1.0 6.9 7.4 9.0 0.0 45.3Construction agreements 37 559 66 411 116 32 832 364 961 0 3377Construction AAWI(%) 3.2 5.3 4.2 3.4 2.9 4.5 4.2 2.4 4.2 * 4.2Construction duration 3.4 2.6 3.4 3.0 3.2 2.5 3.2 3.4 3.4 0.0 3.1Construction employees ('000) 0.6 16.1 1.3 9.5 3.5 0.8 17.0 7.1 20.6 0.0 76.4Wholesale Trade agreements 4 101 6 50 25 20 105 40 63 0 414Wholesale Trade AAWI(%) 2.3 2.8 1.8 2.8 2.6 2.4 2.7 2.1 2.2 * 2.6Wholesale Trade duration 2.7 2.7 2.8 2.7 3.0 3.2 3.0 2.6 3.0 0.0 2.9



Other Total

Wholesale Trade employees ('000) 0.1 5.0 0.1 2.5 1.3 1.0 5.3 1.9 8.7 0.0 25.9

Retail Trade agreements 1 17 3 25 11 1 38 26 31 0 153Retail Trade AAWI(%) * 3.0 2.7 2.5 3.0 2.5 2.8 2.2 1.4 * 2.3Retail Trade duration 4.0 2.7 2.8 3.4 3.9 4.0 3.3 3.2 2.2 0.0 2.3Retail Trade employees ('000) 0.0 2.1 0.1 2.2 1.1 0.0 3.3 1.7 94.5 0.0 105.0Accommodation and Food Services agreements 4 73 6 53 8 1 42 23 38 0 248Accommodation and Food Services AAWI(%) * 2.8 3.1 2.9 2.0 * 2.8 1.9 1.9 * 2.7Accommodation and Food Services duration 2.7 3.4 4.0 3.7 3.6 3.6 3.3 3.8 3.9 0.0 3.6Accommodation and Food Services emps ('000) 0.6 6.9 0.5 1.9 0.2 0.0 2.3 3.1 5.5 0.0 20.9Transport, Postal, Warehousing agreements 3 202 23 146 59 19 165 136 198 0 951Transport, Postal, Warehousing AAWI(%) 1.4 2.8 2.5 2.8 2.4 2.6 3.4 2.2 2.3 * 2.5Transport, Postal, Warehousing duration 4.0 3.2 3.7 3.2 3.2 2.9 3.1 3.3 3.0 0.0 3.1Transport, Postal, Warehousing employees ('000) 0.6 24.0 1.2 15.2 3.7 1.1 16.8 7.1 91.4 0.0 161.0Information, Media, Telecomm. agreements 1 9 0 4 1 1 18 2 23 0 59Information, Media, Telecomm AAWI(%) 2.0 2.4 * 2.4 3.0 3.1 2.7 2.5 2.9 * 2.9Information, Media, Telecomm duration 3.7 1.5 0.0 3.2 4.5 3.3 3.2 3.5 2.9 0.0 2.9Information, Media, Telecomm employees ('000) 0.1 0.8 0.0 0.3 0.0 0.0 1.2 0.2 37.5 0.0 40.1Financial and Insurance Services agreements 0 15 2 3 4 3 19 10 48 0 104Financial and Insurance Services AAWI(%) * 2.7 2.8 2.9 2.9 2.3 3.2 1.1 2.8 * 2.8Financial and Insurance Services duration 0.0 2.7 2.4 2.4 3.2 3.1 3.5 2.9 3.0 0.0 3.0Financial and Insurance Services employees ('000) 0.0 1.4 0.1 0.7 0.0 0.1 1.7 2.0 131.5 0.0 137.6Rental, Hiring, Real Estate agreements 2 28 3 31 8 6 48 20 36 0 182Rental, Hiring, Real Estate AAWI(%) 1.8 3.0 4.7 2.4 3.0 3.0 3.5 2.0 2.0 * 2.5Rental, Hiring, Real Estate duration 3.9 2.2 4.0 3.6 2.2 2.6 3.3 3.8 3.3 0.0 3.2Rental, Hiring, Real Estate employees ('000) 0.0 1.2 0.1 0.7 0.2 0.1 1.5 0.6 3.3 0.0 7.7Professional, Scientific, Technical Services agreements 4 46 7 35 10 8 72 35 94 0 311Professional, Scientific, Technical Services AAWI(%) 2.3 3.1 4.0 2.6 2.4 2.5 3.1 2.5 2.4 * 2.6Professional, Scientific, Technical Services duration 3.4 3.0 3.8 2.9 2.9 2.9 3.1 3.6 3.3 0.0 3.3Professional, Scientific, Technical Services emps ('000) 0.0 1.7 0.3 1.9 0.3 0.2 4.8 1.9 19.5 0.0 30.6Administrative and Support Services agreements 2 65 4 35 10 4 74 44 124 0 362Administrative and Support Services AAWI(%) * 3.3 2.4 2.9 2.4 2.9 3.5 2.3 2.5 * 2.9Administrative and Support Services duration 3.6 3.4 3.8 3.3 3.8 3.4 2.9 3.2 3.5 0.0 3.4



Other Total

Administrative and Support Services employees ('000) 0.1 3.2 0.2 1.6 0.6 0.4 4.4 3.1 15.5 0.0 29.0

Public Administration and Safety agreements 24 46 19 44 9 27 137 91 108 2 507Public Administration and Safety AAWI(%) 2.6 2.7 2.4 2.7 1.9 2.4 3.0 2.3 2.0 2.5 2.4Public Administration and Safety duration 3.5 2.9 3.9 2.9 3.3 3.3 3.5 3.0 3.0 2.1 3.2Public Administration and Safety employees ('000) 8.1 9.3 16.8 4.6 0.4 3.4 106.0 14.1 154.3 0.2 317.2Education agreements 7 142 7 148 29 14 97 28 23 0 495Education AAWI(%) 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.5 2.5 2.1 2.8 1.8 2.5 * 2.5Education duration 3.8 3.2 3.6 3.8 2.8 2.5 3.6 3.4 2.4 0.0 3.3Education employees ('000) 0.9 49.1 0.4 43.9 17.4 1.2 106.8 22.2 57.9 0.0 299.8Health and Community Services agreements 19 248 20 127 121 43 216 83 54 0 931Health and Community Services AAWI(%) 2.3 2.4 2.2 2.6 2.5 3.3 3.5 1.9 2.4 * 3.0Health and Community Services duration 2.8 2.7 3.4 2.9 3.0 2.5 4.2 2.7 2.9 0.0 3.5Health and Community Services employees ('000) 2.9 69.2 1.6 30.8 14.0 6.3 189.7 26.6 40.3 0.0 381.2Arts and Recreation Services agreements 7 24 0 12 7 2 43 5 13 0 113Arts and Recreation Services AAWI(%) 2.0 2.7 * 2.3 1.0 2.8 3.3 2.2 2.2 * 2.8Arts and Recreation Services duration 3.0 2.6 0.0 3.4 2.3 3.0 3.3 3.1 3.7 0.0 3.2Arts and Recreation Services employees ('000) 1.0 3.6 0.0 5.7 1.0 0.1 15.0 4.6 2.3 0.0 33.4Other Services agreements 9 58 7 50 23 11 60 30 47 1 296Other Services AAWI(%) 2.5 2.8 3.0 2.5 2.5 2.6 3.1 2.3 2.2 1.7 2.6Other Services duration 3.6 2.7 3.3 2.8 2.9 2.7 3.2 2.4 2.8 4.6 2.8Other Services employees ('000) 0.2 2.9 0.2 5.6 1.1 0.6 4.0 2.0 3.9 0.0 20.5All sector agreements 135 2234 192 1610 600 269 2670 1177 2098 4 10989All sectors AAWI(%) 2.5 2.7 2.5 2.6 2.5 2.9 3.2 2.1 2.3 2.3 2.7All sectors duration 3.3 2.9 3.7 3.3 3.1 2.8 3.7 3.1 2.9 2.5 3.2All sectors employees ('000) 16.5 245.7 23.9 163.4 61.2 21.0 522.3 117.0 718.7 0.3 1890.0


1. AAWI = Average Annualised Wage Increase per employee. 2. Agreement and employee estimates are for all federal wage agreements in the period, while estimates of AAWI per employee are based on quantifiable wage

agreements.3. The manufacturing category has been disaggregated into metals and non-metals industries. 4. * Where asterisk occurs, there are no quantifiable agreements in this quarter so no AAWI is calculable.5. All estimates are rounded and are subject to revision. Revisions have been made to historical series.

How to read: Of the 137 Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing agreements current as at 30 September 2018, 37 operate in NSW. These agreements cover 4,600 employees, their average AAWI is 2.7 per cent and their average duration is 3.3 years.

Trends in Federal Enterprise Bargaining - Technical Notes

The Workplace Agreements DatabaseData presented in the Trends in Federal Enterprise Bargaining report (Trends) are drawn from the Workplace Agreements Database (WAD), which is maintained by the Workplace Relations Policy Group of the Department of Jobs and Small Business. The WAD contains information on all known federal enterprise agreements that have operated since the introduction of the Enterprise Bargaining Principle in October 1991 and that have been subsequently provided to the Department of Jobs and Small Business. The WAD covers general details (such as sector, ANZSIC, duration, employees covered), wage details (quantum and timing of increases) and a range of Jobs and Small Business conditions.

Agreements included in the WAD The following agreements are included in the WAD and thus in Trends:

For agreements made under the Fair Work Act 2009 or before the Work Choices amendments to the Workplace Relations Act 2006 (WR Act), those that have been certified by the Australian Industrial Relations Commission or approved by the Fair Work Commission (FWC).

For agreements made under the Work Choices amendments but before the introduction of the Fairness Test, those that were lodged with the Office of the Employment Advocate (OEA).

For agreements made under the fairness test, those that were lodged with the Workplace Authority. However, agreements were subsequently deleted and do not appear in the data if they ceased to operate because they did not pass the fairness test.

For agreements made under the Transition to Forward with Fairness amendments to the WR Act, union collective and employee collective agreements that were approved by the Workplace Authority. Union greenfields and employer greenfields were included when they were lodged, but were deleted if they ceased to operate because they did not pass the no-disadvantage test.

Wider context for Trends dataAbout one third of all employees in the Australian labour market (as measured by the ABS 2016 Employee Earnings and Hours survey) are covered by federal enterprise agreements. The table below shows the growth in coverage by federally registered agreements.

Technical Notes Table - Instrument providing rate of pay for all employees, 2010-2016

Instrument providing rate of pay 2010 (%) 2012(%) 2014(%) 2016(%)

Award 15.2 16.1 18.8 23.9

Collective Agreement (Federally Registered) 31.5 32.0 32.6 30.2

Collective Agreement (State Registered) 11.9 9.8 8.6 6.2

Collective Agreement (Unregistered) 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.1

Individual Agreement such as common law contracts or over-award payments (Registered and unregistered)

37.3 38.7 36.4 36.2

Owner/managers of incorporated enterprises 4.1 3.3 3.4 3.5

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics Employee Earnings and Hours, Cat. No. 6306.0 (May 2010, May 2012, May 2014, May 2016), unpublished data – all employees. Please note that this is not intended to be analysed as a time series.

Note: This table has been revised to include managerial-level employees. This accounts for all differences between this table and tables published in previous Trends reports.

Presentation of Trends in Federal Enterprise Bargaining dataA typical row of data in Trends appears as follows:

Field Figure DescriptionAll Industries 1109 Total number of agreements for a given quarterAAWI (%) 2.7 Average Annualised Wage Increase for the quarterDuration (yrs) 2.7 Average formal duration per employee for the quarterEmployees ('000) 265.0 Estimated total number of employees covered by the number of agreements in the

first row

It is important to note that not all agreements contain quantifiable wage increases and in most cases the AAWI is not derived from the total number of agreements shown in the first row or the total number of employees shown in the third row. A more detailed explanation of why this is the case is provided below under Average annualised wage increases.

Employee coverageInformation on the number of employees covered by an agreement is drawn from the information provided to FWC (Fair Work Commission), the Workplace Authority or the AIRC (Australian Industrial Relations Commission) by the employer who lodges the agreement.

In the Trends data, the number of employees covered by agreements is presented as an estimated figure, as employee coverage figures are not always provided when an agreement is lodged.

Where an agreement’s employee coverage is not known and the agreement replaces an earlier agreement where employee coverage is known, the employee coverage of the earlier agreement is used. For those agreements still lacking employee coverage a ‘modified mean’ is used to estimate employee coverage. The modified mean is generated for each industry group by current quarter removing the largest 5% and smallest 5% of agreements, and then calculating the mean of the remainder.

As the number of employees covered by an enterprise agreement frequently changes during the life of an agreement due to workforce fluctuations, the total number of employees covered is not necessarily indicative of the total current coverage of enterprise agreements.

Duration of agreements‘Formal duration’ is the period from certification to expiry in years.

The ‘effective duration’ of each agreement is used to calculate AAWI rather than formal duration. The effective duration of a wage agreement is the difference in years between: certification, commencement or the date of the first wage increase (whichever is earliest) and expiry date or the date of the last wage increase (whichever is latest) or termination date (where applicable and only if prior to the later of either the expiry date or the date of the last wage increase). Those few agreements with a formal duration of less than one year are deemed to have an effective duration of 12 months.

Average annualised wage increasesEstimates of average wage increases are calculated for those federal enterprise agreements that provide quantifiable wage increases over the life of the agreement. Enterprise agreements for which average percentage wage increases could not be quantified (e.g. those with inconsistent increases) are excluded from these estimates.

AAWI data examine only increases to the base rate of pay, and do not take into account allowances and bonus payments that are paid separate to the base wage. The ABS produces a more comprehensive dataset on total labour costs (Labour Price Index): http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/[email protected]/mf/6345.0

For agreements with quantifiable wage increases, the average annualised wage increase (AAWI) per agreement is calculated using the following formula:

http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/[email protected]/mf/6345.0

100×{[∏i=1N

(1+r i)]1d−1}

ri = % increases of the ith time*N = the number of increases over the life of the agreementd = the effective duration of the agreement in years

*(Flat dollar increases are converted to a percentage using average weekly ordinary time earnings (AWOTE), drawn from ABS, 6302.0 - Average Weekly Earnings, Australia) for the relevant ANZSIC industry division and quarter)

AAWI per agreement provides only a simple unweighted average and tends to overstate the average wage increase received by employees. For this reason Trends reports the AAWI per employee, which is calculated by weighting AAWI per agreement by the number of employees covered by that agreement.

The “all current wage” estimates are the AAWI per employee for all quantifiable federal wage agreements that are current on the last day of the quarter. Current agreements are those agreements that have been approved and have commenced, but have neither been terminated nor nominally expired at a given point in time. An agreement is deemed to be current on its nominal expiry date.

Estimates of AAWI generally exclude increases paid in the form of conditional performance pay, one-off bonuses, profit sharing or share acquisition, as these data cannot readily be either quantified or annualised.

Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification (ANZSIC)From the June quarter 2009, Trends uses ANZSIC 2006 divisions for data presented by industry, while previous releases used ANZSIC 1993 divisions. This change followed the use of ANZSIC 2006 divisions in the August 2009 Average Weekly Earnings survey released by the ABS, from which data about AWOTE are drawn for use in calculating AAWIs.

From the June quarter 2009, historical industry data contained in the Trends report have also been produced using ANZSIC 2006 divisions.

Union CoverageCare should be taken when analysing data in tables 13 and 14, in comparing agreements that cover a union and those that do not.

Data about unions covered by agreements made under the Fair Work Act 2009 may not provide an accurate reflection of union involvement in bargaining for agreements. Under the Fair Work Act 2009 it is possible for a union to have been involved in bargaining for an agreement and then not be covered by the approved agreement. It is also possible for a union to be covered by an agreement because they were a bargaining representative, even if they did not take an active role in the negotiations.

http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/[email protected]/mf/6302.0

Further, data about non-greenfields agreements made under the Fair Work Act 2009 that cover a union cannot be directly compared with data about union collective agreements or s.170LJ agreements made under the Workplace Relations Act 1996, which had to be made with a union. While a union may be a bargaining representative, there is no capacity under the Fair Work Act 2009 for agreements (other than greenfields agreements) to be made with a union.

Non-quantifiable wage increasesWage increases are only recorded in the WAD if the same percentage wage increase that applies to all employees covered by the agreement can be quantified. There are many reasons why wage increases provided for in federal enterprise agreements may not be quantifiable. The list of reasons recorded in the WAD about why wage increases cannot be quantified is as follows:

Reason DefinitionInconsistent Increase Percentage wage increases vary between

classifications in the agreement.Performance Linked Wage increases are awarded only if certain

productivity improvements are made, or if wage increases are dependent upon individual or company performance.

Linked to CPI Wage increases in the agreement are linked to future CPI movements, and cannot be quantified at the time of calculating the AAWIs in this report.

Linked to Minimum Wages Wage increases in the agreement are linked to future minimum wage or award wage increase decisions, and cannot be quantified at the time of calculating the AAWIs in this report.

Other Reason Wage increases cannot be quantified due to a reason not elsewhere classified.

Types of Collective AgreementsTrends in Federal Enterprise Bargaining tables 5, 6 and 12 include information about collective agreements broken down by the type of agreement, as determined by the relevant legislation. The following list shows the types of collective agreements available under the two pieces of legislation included in this report.

Collective agreements made under the Workplace Relations Act 1996:

Employee collective

Employee greenfields

Union collective

Union greenfields

Enterprise agreements made under the Fair Work Act 2009 Single enterprise non-greenfields

Single enterprise greenfields

Multi-enterprise non-greenfields

Multi-enterprise greenfields

Note - In sections 327-330 of the Workplace Relations Act 1996, the primary division between types of agreements was whether they were made with a union or without a union, while the primary division between agreements made under section 172 of the Fair Work Act 2009 is whether they cover a single or multiple enterprises. Under both pieces of legislation, the secondary division is whether or not the agreement is a greenfields agreement, that is, it is made to cover a genuine new enterprise or undertaking for which no persons have yet been employed who will be covered by the agreement.

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