Data & Insights

Salary and workplace survey results for corporate Australia

What corporate Australia told us about pay, bonuses and parental leave, in anonymous surveys that run a few months each year. The headline findings are below. Each survey has its own page with every slide.

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Cover of the 2026 Parental Leave Survey results: 18% of Aussie corporates say taking parental leave damaged their career

Our surveys

Cover of The Aussie Corporate 2026 Salary Survey: 10 things nobody tells you about your pay

2026 Salary Survey

1 in 3 people receive no bonus at all.

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Cover of the 2026 Parental Leave Survey results: 18% of Aussie corporates say taking parental leave damaged their career

2026 Parental Leave Survey

18% say taking parental leave damaged their career.

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Cover of The Aussie Corporate 2025 Grad Salary Survey, brought to you by Pago.

2025 Graduate Salary Survey

The median graduate base salary was $87,000.

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Employer Benefits Survey

Our next survey opens in October 2026. Subscribe to hear the day it opens.

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What did our surveys find?

One headline from each survey. Our surveys and Instagram polls are answered by people working in corporate Australia.

1 in 3get no bonus at all

2026 Salary Survey

51%of Big 4 employees say their pay is unfair

2026 Salary Survey

18%say parental leave damaged their career

2026 Parental Leave Survey

$87,000median graduate base salary

2025 Graduate Salary Survey

40,000+ survey submissions
750+ companies
15K responses to a poll, on average

When does the next survey open?

The next one is the Employer Benefits Survey, in October 2026. It is announced in Flat White first, so subscribe to hear the day it opens.

AusCorp salary benchmarking, coming soon: Is your package actually competitive? At market could mean anything. The calculator shows a Big 4 and Consulting graduate on $88,000 at the 78th percentile, $13K above the median of $75K.

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How do our surveys work?

Each survey runs a few months a year. This is what happens to your answer.
1

You answer anonymously

The survey never asks for your name or your work email.

2

One short online form

While a survey is open, the button at the top of this page takes you to the form.

3

We publish where enough people answered

A result goes on this page only when enough people answered for it to mean something.

4

The full data goes to AusCorp Vault

The headline findings are published here. The complete data sits in AusCorp Vault.

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Survey questions

Yes. Our surveys never ask for your name or your work email, and a result is published only where enough people answered for no one to be singled out.

The next one is the Employer Benefits Survey, in October 2026. It is announced in Flat White first, and the button at the top of this page switches to it the day it opens.

The headline findings from each survey are on its own page here. The full data sits in AusCorp Vault, where you can compare your own salary.

Anyone working in corporate Australia. While a survey is open, the link is on this page, in our newsletters and on our Instagram.