The 2024-2025 WALGA Salary and Workforce survey is now closed, and the results are now available to view on the survey portal.
First introduced 25 years ago, the survey has become the Local Government sector’s most comprehensive salary and workforce survey in WA.
The results provide a comprehensive report detailing remuneration and workforce data, and HR metrics for Local Governments in Western Australia and the Northern Territory. The survey results also help guide recruitment and remuneration strategies, workforce planning and performance measurement across key HR metrics.
WALGA offers this survey exclusively free of cost for our subscribing members.
The WALGA Salary and Workforce Survey has been conducted annually for over 25 years, with 78 Local Governments participating last year.
The more Local Governments who participate, the greater the quality of the resulting data:
| Survey Participant | Survey Non-Participant | |
| ER Subscribers |
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| Local Government Category | Full Fee (ex GST) |
| WA SAT Band 1 | $1,912 |
| WA SAT Band 2 | $1,730 |
| WA SAT Band 3 | $1,560 |
| WA SAT Band 4 | $1,130 |
| Local Government Category | Full Fee (ex GST) |
| NT Band 1 (over 300 employees) | $1,912 |
| NT Band 2 (200-300 employees) | $1,730 |
| NT Band 3 (100-200 employees) | $1,560 |
| NT Band 4 (up to 99 employees) | $1,130 |
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:
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.
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.
