Overview

Employers who wish to nominate workers for subclass 482, 186 and 187 must meet certain salary and employment condition requirements. These requirements help to ensure that:

• overseas workers are paid no less than an Australian worker would doing the same work in the same location, that is, the ‘Annual Market Salary Rate (AMSR)’
• these visa programs are not used to undercut the Australian labour market

If the overseas worker will be paid an annual salary less than AUD250,000 you need to show:

• you have determined the AMSR correctly
• the overseas worker will not be paid less than the AMSR, that is, less than an Australian worker would be paid
• both the AMSR and what the overseas worker will be paid, excluding any non-monetary benefits in both cases, is no less than the Temporary Skilled Migration Income Threshold (TSMIT).

Temporary Skilled Migration Income Threshold

Sponsors seeking to employ an overseas worker will need to demonstrate that they are going to pay the market salary rate to ensure that overseas workers are protected, and the local labour market is not undercut. In any case it must be above the Temporary Skilled Migration Income Threshold (TSMIT). This threshold is set by the Department of Home Affairs each year and is currently $53,900 plus superannuation.

The Government has recently announced that the TSMIT will be increased from 1 July 2023. The new threshold set by the Department will be $70,000 plus superannuation.

For further information, visit: Salary Requirements