C2024-09 Meal, Travelling and Other Allowances for 2024-25
Various expense and work-related allowances in the Crown Employees (Public Service Conditions of Employment) Reviewed Award 2009 are adjusted annually.
Issued: 11 December 2024 by Secretary, Premier's Department
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Key information
- Status
- Archived
- Type
- Premier's Department Circular
- Identifier
- C2024-09
- Compliance
- Mandatory
Who needs to know and/or comply with this?
- Departments
- Executive agencies related to Departments
- Separate agencies
About
Various expense and work-related allowances in the Crown Employees (Public Service Conditions of Employment) Reviewed Award 2009 are adjusted annually.
Agencies should process the respective payments for meal, travelling and other allowances in accordance with the rates set out in the circular with effect from 1 July 2024.
Note that the rates in the circular are to be read in conjunction with the relevant clauses in the Crown Employees (Public Service Conditions of Employment) Reviewed Award 2009.
The meal, travelling and related allowances contained in Table 1 Allowances of Part B - Monetary Rates of the Crown Employees (Public Service Conditions of Employment) Reviewed Award 2009 have been increased effective from 1 July 2024.
Meal and travelling allowances listed in Items 1, 2, 3 and 19 (excluding supper allowance) of Table 1 have been adjusted from 1 July 2024 in line with the Australian Taxation Office Determination No. TD 2024/3, which sets out the reasonable allowance amounts for the 2024-25 financial year.
Allowances listed in Items 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 12, 15, 16 and 19 (supper allowance) of Table 1 have been adjusted in accordance with the changes in the Sydney Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the preceding years to March 2024.
Work related allowances listed in Items 13, 14, 17 and 18 of Table 1 are increased by 4 per cent from the first full pay period commencing on or after 1 July 2024, being the same increases as applied to salaries under the Crown Employees (Public Sector Salaries) Award.
Private motor vehicle allowances listed in Item 6 of Table 1 are determined by the Australian Taxation Office and are increased to 88 cents for FY2024-25 for all engine types.
This Circular supersedes and replaces Department of Premier and Cabinet Circular C2023-02 Meal, Travelling and Other Allowances for 2023-24.
Simon Draper
Secretary