Reports

Our biannual mining insight report – REMWATCH – explores the steps that Australian mining and metals companies have taken to manage the impacts of COVID-19.

Western Australia has continued to provide a stronghold for Australian mining investment, and locally has led the rapid transformation of the industry’s approach to workforce management and operations.

The industry’s contribution has ensured our national economy has fared better than other established economies around the world, and yet our local mining companies have not been spared from boom time challenges including technical skills shortages and salary inflation.

For HR professionals in the mining sector, the REMWATCH brings clarity to mining pay decisions as we enter 2021, highlighting the steps mining and metals businesses have taken to define the workforce of the future.

REMWATCH puts critical mining salary data and trends into a biannual guide that presents:

• National salary data across more than 78 companies and 600 roles
• Insights into mining salary forecasting, incentives and allowances
• Salary averages across gender, role, location and generational grouping
• Roles experiencing talent shortages in the mining sector
• Key actions undertaken by mining leaders to manage workforces in a pandemic

Mining Remuneration Trends for Defensible Pay Strategies

Our mid-year Mining and Metals REMWATCH report collates mining remuneration trends and insights from our bi-annual mining salary survey.

Bringing together remuneration data from more than 70 companies and 600 roles in the mining, construction and engineering industries, the report sheds light on how mining and metals companies are structuring pay responses in this unchartered operating environment. 

This quick read will help you frame defensible pay strategies outlining current approaches to:

• National salary data across more than 70 companies and 600 roles
• Travel, roster and site allowances
• Short term incentives averages
• Salary averages across gender, role, location and generational grouping

Mining & Metals Workforce Approaches

Brought to you by REMSMART, this quick read brings together the collective actions of our subscribers and extended industry networks to share how Australian Mining and Metals corporations are taking action in response to the COVID-19 crisis as at 31 March 2020.

Including our own pandemic workforce prototype, our synopsis is designed to support HR professionals and Boards to make decisions around reward and retention in order to stabilise operations and finances as the pandemic unfolds.

In this report you will discover:

• Key actions mining and metals companies are taking in the early weeks of COVID-19 impacting Australian workplaces
• Remuneration and workplace trends emerging as stabilisation plans are implemented
• Pandemic pay opportunities
• Recommended pandemic workforce prototype