Prime Minister Julia Gillard holds a press conference with deputy Wayne Swan and Jenny Macklin after she announced an increase in the medicare levy to fund the NDIS. Picture: Aaron Francis Source: Supplied
THE part-time chairperson of the DisabilityCare Australia board will be paid more than $125,000 a year.
The salary, set by the Remuneration Tribunal yesterday, comes as it was revealed staffing the 300-strong bureaucracy to run the NDIS and agency workers will cost almost $360 million a year.
The chairperson will be paid $105,770 but until 2016 will be given a $20,000 annual boost to account for an increased workload while the NDIS is being established.
A board member will receive $52,910 a year but will also receive a $10,000 boost until 2016, taking their pay above that of a Reserve Bank of Australia member.
The increased pay in the first three years will make the chair the sixth highest paid part time office in the remuneration tribunal schedule, with only the chair of the NBN Co, the Future Fund, Australia Post, the ABC and the Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation on more.
Daily rates for advisory council members will be equal to rates for the chair and members of the National Film and Sound Archive and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Pricing Authority.
A salary for a CEO is yet to be determined. "The tribunal determines the remuneration of authorities, including the chair of DisabilityCare Australia," a spokeswoman for Disability Reform Minister Jenny Macklin said.
The government has said the staffing costs would be around 4.5 per cent of the $8 billion scheme.
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