Indigenous Wage Subsidy Card

Indigenous Wage Subsidy is a wage subsidy program for employers who employ Indigenous job seekers. Job seekers must be registered as a Fully Eligible Participant with Centrelink and identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander.

Job seekers must also be:

• receiving an income support payment, or
• a CDEP participant, or
• under 21 years of age, not on any allowance and registered with Centrelink, or
• eligible for the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs Disability Support Services.

Centrelink will issue eligible job seekers with a Wage Subsidy card, which shows employers they may be eligible for a wage subsidy if they employ an Indigenous job seeker.

Indigenous Wage Subsidy offers wage subsidies to employers of up to:

1. $6,600 (including GST) over 26 weeks for ongoing full-time employment (35 hours or more per week, or as defined as full-time in the relevant industrial award or certified workplace agreement)
2. $3,300 (including GST) over 26 weeks for ongoing part-time work of at least 15 hours per week, every week.

The Retention Bonus is available for positions with job start dates from 1 July 2009.

More information

• Contact the Indigenous Employment Line on 1 802 102.
• Visit the Wage Subsidy website.