Salary, Performance Steps and Superannuation. Where a researcher receives a higher salary through this process, their performance steps will be granted at that higher level subject to a positive annual performance assessment. The exception will be where the researcher is elevated to a higher salary on or after 28 February, then the following performance step in the new band will not be paid until the end of the next assessment period. Where a researcher has received a higher salary and reverts to their substantive salary, then that salary will be adjusted to include any performance steps which would have been otherwise granted, subject to positive annual performance assessments. Where a researcher receives a higher salary, that salary will be treated as salary for superannuation purposes. In the case of reversion to a substantive salary from a higher salary, the higher salary may continue as the salary for superannuation purposes depending on the rules of the superannuation fund applying in the case of each researcher.
