WALGA conducts the Local Government sector’s most comprehensive salary and workforce survey in Australia. The collective survey results can help guide your recruitment and remuneration strategies, inform workforce plans and help to measure performance across key HR metrics.
The survey is available to WALGA Employee Relations subscribers and LGANT members, and other WA and NT Local Governments that purchase the survey.
For enquiries about your subscription status and purchasing access to the web portal, please email [email protected] or call 1300 366 956.
For access and support enquiries about the web portal, please email [email protected] or call 1300 029 421.
Survey results are delivered through an online portal powered by SalaryOne. Your Local Government can have up to four users who can log in, explore the data, and download reports.
Key features include:
Portal access remains available until the next survey launches in September 2026.
The survey is free for WA and NT subscribers who completed the survey.
Subscribers who did not participate, and Local Governments that are not subscribers, may purchase access to the results at the following rates:
| Survey Participant | Survey Non-Participant | |
| WA and NT ER Subscribers |
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| Local Government Category | Full Fee (ex GST) |
| WA SAT Band 1 / NT Band 1 (over 300 employees) | $1,989 |
| WA SAT Band 2 / NT Band 2 (200 - 300 employees) | $1,799 |
| WA SAT Band 3 / NT Band 3 (100 - 200 employees) | $1,622 |
| WA SAT Band 4 / NT Band 4 (up to 99 employees) | $1,175 |
WALGA conducts the Local Government sector’s most comprehensive salary and workforce survey in Australia. The collective survey results can help guide your recruitment and remuneration strategies, inform workforce plans and help measure performance across key HR metrics.
Increased participation enhances the quality of results. The collective data aids in shaping recruitment, remuneration, and workforce strategies, facilitating performance measurement across key HR metrics.
The survey collects Local Government HR and salary metrics on the following:
Results can be viewed in a customisable dashboard for your Local Government. This allows our members to search for salaries across a large range of Local Government positions for benchmarking and recruitment.
Please log in to the online web portal (powered by SalaryOne) to complete the survey. Your Local Government can have up to four users, who can log in and complete sections of the survey.
For any queries regarding access, please email WALGA Employee Relations or call 1300 366 956.
For any log-in issues, please email SalaryOne or phone 1300 029 421.
WALGA Employee Relations (ER) Subscribers
If you participate in this survey, you will receive full access to the online portal with customised benchmarking and salary searching capabilities at no additional cost.
If you don’t participate in the survey but wish to purchase the survey data when it is released next year, fees are outlined below:
| WA SAT Band 1 / NT Band 1 (over 300 employees) | $1,989 |
| WA SAT Band 2 / NT Band 2 (200 - 300 employees) | $1,799 |
| WA SAT Band 3 / NT Band 3 (100 - 200 employees) | $1,622 |
| WA SAT Band 4 / NT Band 4 (up to 99 employees) | $1,175 |
To participate in the survey, please email a purchase order in accordance with the below table to WALGA Employee Relations.
This will give you full access to the online portal to complete the survey, to view survey results and to access customised benchmarking and salary searching capabilities, other information and resources.
| WA SAT Band 1 / NT Band 1 (over 300 employees) | $1,989 |
| WA SAT Band 2 / NT Band 2 (200 - 300 employees) | $1,799 |
| WA SAT Band 3 / NT Band 3 (100 - 200 employees) | $1,622 |
| WA SAT Band 4 / NT Band 4 (up to 99 employees) | $1,175 |
Access to the WALGA and Salary Workforce Survey portal is offered free of charge for our members that subscribe to the WALGA Employee Relations (ER) service.
Should you wish to become a subscriber to the WALGA ER service, please email WALGA Employee Relations or call 1300 366 956.
SalaryOne ensures the security, integrity and privacy of information submitted to and displayed on the portal. All access is subject to stringent login, authentication, and date encryption technology. Apart from the salary search, all data is aggregated and mostly shown as percentile ranges.
Only Local Governments that participate in the survey (or purchase the survey) will have full access to the portal and survey results.
WALGA acknowledges the continuing connection of Aboriginal people to Country, culture and community. We embrace the vast Aboriginal cultural diversity throughout Western Australia, including Boorloo (Perth), on the land of the Whadjuk Nyoongar People, where WALGA is located and we acknowledge and pay respect to Elders past and present.
