Global immigration firm Fragomen used its 30 October salary-tracker update to remind employers that Australia’s Temporary Skilled Migration Income Threshold (TSMIT) and related SID salary floors will jump on 1 July 2025. The TSMIT and Core Skills Income Threshold will both climb to AUD 76,515 (up from AUD 73,150), while the Specialist Skills floor rises to AUD 141,210. The High-Income Threshold for discrimination protection also increases to AUD 183,100, and compulsory superannuation moves to 12 per cent.
Although publicised in last year’s Migration Strategy, many mobility budgets still reflect 2024 levels. Assignee packages that bundle base salary plus allowances will need to be recalculated to ensure the guaranteed earnings component—exclusive of discretionary bonuses—meets the new figure.
Regional employers using the subclass 494 visa must also observe the higher TSMIT unless a labour-agreement exemption applies. Fragomen warns that market-salary-rate evidence is still required; simply hitting the threshold is not enough.
For HR leaders the change dovetails with the November rollout of the Skills-in-Demand visa and the government’s new indexation formula, meaning annual revisions will become standard. Multinational firms are urged to build automatic alerts into compensation systems and flag cost-of-living allowances early with payroll teams.
Failure to adjust salaries can trigger visa cancellation and back-payment orders, exposing sponsors to newly beefed-up civil penalties under the Migrant Worker Protection Act.
Although publicised in last year’s Migration Strategy, many mobility budgets still reflect 2024 levels. Assignee packages that bundle base salary plus allowances will need to be recalculated to ensure the guaranteed earnings component—exclusive of discretionary bonuses—meets the new figure.
Regional employers using the subclass 494 visa must also observe the higher TSMIT unless a labour-agreement exemption applies. Fragomen warns that market-salary-rate evidence is still required; simply hitting the threshold is not enough.
For HR leaders the change dovetails with the November rollout of the Skills-in-Demand visa and the government’s new indexation formula, meaning annual revisions will become standard. Multinational firms are urged to build automatic alerts into compensation systems and flag cost-of-living allowances early with payroll teams.
Failure to adjust salaries can trigger visa cancellation and back-payment orders, exposing sponsors to newly beefed-up civil penalties under the Migrant Worker Protection Act.
