ULM what a wind up? You wouldn't be Charles Ulm an ASA back Office Manager who earns more than any controller in Australia would you? Maybe not...
For interst, these are the current salary scales (and I'm sure you know) :
Controller
44,129
47,437
51,272
54,277
FPC
57,669
59,748
62,191
64,804
67,220
68,467
69,770
71,329
72,885
74,446
ATC Team Leader 81,890
Plus shift penalties. Add about 4% for Melbourne, Adelaide, Cairns, Perth, Canberra and Brisbane and about 8% for Sydney controllers.
This is the offer:
ATC Band 3 - ATC Graduate
39,500
40,721
41,942
44,129
47,437
51,272
ATC Band 4 - Air Traffic Controller
51,272
54,277
57,669
59,748
62,191
63,890
64,804
67,220
68,467
69,770
ATC Band 5 - Senior Air Traffic Controller
69,770
71,329
72,885
74,446
ATC Band 6 - Team Leader 81,890
Note that the offer has many more increments, takes longer to get to the high salaries, Senior Controllers are limited (a number yet to be determined, trust us!!!!). You have to gain skills and constantly use them otherwise you go backwards for actually getting experience and not doing back office stuff. The proposal is that if you currently are on the top salary ie $74446 you go back to $69770 unless you get trained in a whole rang of skills, which they will determine soon, what it is when it is and when you can train. None of these skills will relate to how you actually do ATC, but rather things like Incident investigating, budget planning courses etc. It's a joke.
As for Broome, Kununurra, Karatha hmmmm....
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