Use of performance-based payments

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Overall, just over one-third (35%) of enterprises reported using some form of performance-based payment in the previous 12 months.

As demonstrated in Table 5.8, the most common performance-based payments used by enterprises were irregular bonuses or payments (i.e. paid less frequently than quarterly), with more than two-thirds (68%) of enterprises that used performance-based payments having using this form of performance-based payment.

The AWRS also enables estimates of the employee population to be generated for female and male workers.

Table 5.8: Use of performance-based payments in the last financial year by employment size, per cent of enterprises that have used performance-based payments
	5–19 employees (%)	20–199 employees (%)	200+ employees (%)	All enterprises that used performance-based payments (%)
Commissions	33.8	37.8	26.3	34.5
Regular bonuses (bonuses paid at least quarterly)	21.3	24.8	33.6	22.7
Other bonuses/irregular performance-based payments (paid less frequently than quarterly, including one-off payments)	66.1	70.7	76.7	67.7
Piece work payments (e.g. payment per unit produced)	1.2	2.2	3.6	1.6
Other performance-based payments	1.4	1.0	0.7	1.3

Source: AWRS 2014, Workforce Profile and Enterprise Characteristics (Recruitment screener) survey.

Base = 1838 enterprises.

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14 February 2016

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