Our careers
When you work with us, you’re not just building a career — you’re protecting people, shaping policy, and influencing change that touches every workplace in Queensland.
At the Office of Industrial Relations, we lead the way in:
- Achieving the lowest rate of workplace and electrical fatalities, injuries, and disease in Australia
- Delivering fair and balanced industrial relations for all Queenslanders
- Providing world-class workers’ compensation and support services.
Our people are our most important asset; Office of Industrial Relations offers a range of benefits including:
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional growth and development
- Awards and recognition
- Attractive salary and superannuation
- Health and wellbeing
- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging community of practice
- Learning and Development Network
- Up-to-date technology, work tools and protective equipment.
We know that flexibility looks different for everyone, so we have many work arrangements that fit your life while letting you do your best work. Embracing flexible work practices creates workplaces that are inclusive, diverse and connected.
We offer a range of benefits including:
- Flexible hours enable our employees to vary their work hours and pattern
- Part-time arrangements enable our employees to balance family, caring, interests and obligations outside of work
- Flexible workplace locations allow our employees to work part of their hours at home or other approved locations.
At the Office of Industrial Relations, we’re committed to helping you grow and succeed in your career.
Our learning and development vision is for all staff to have the capabilities and opportunities they need to excel – fostering curiosity, continuous learning, and innovation to meet emerging and future challenges.
We offer employees a range of professional development opportunities, including training programs and mentoring opportunities designed to help you build your skills and thrive.
We provide a three-stage inspector induction program complimented by skills maintenance program (core inspector compliance skills including Diploma of Government); post induction (core inspector industry streams) ongoing technical training opportunities and professional development opportunities (Advanced Diploma; LIFT program). These programs are also supported with coaching, mentoring, leadership and management development opportunities.
We recognise and celebrate our staff through the OIR STAR Recognition Awards. These awards honour individuals and teams who demonstrate exceptional behaviour and performance that go above and beyond everyday role expectations. They also highlight our organisation’s achievements and reflect our commitment to the Queensland Public Sector values (Categories 1–3) and OIR values (Category 4).
- Category 1: Excellence in service
- Category 2: Innovation
- Category 3: Leadership
- Category 4: Collaboration, awareness, appreciation, respect and trust (CAART Award).
The Queensland Government offers competitive salaries including salary sacrificing and generous superannuation.
At the Office of Industrial Relations, salaries for staff are set out in the Department of Education Certified Agreement 2025 (the Agreement).
The Agreement provides for annual compounded wage increases consisting of two key components:
- Guaranteed wage increase: A guaranteed increase applied annually for each year of the Agreement (e.g., 3% effective, 1 September 2025).
- CPI Uplift Adjustment (CUA): triggered if the Consumer Price Index (CPI) exceeds the guaranteed increase, providing for a maximum overall salary increase of up to 3.5% each year. See the Agreement for details on when the CUA is triggered.
Annual wage increases (including any CUA) also apply to relevant allowances.
View the current salary rates (incorporating the Guaranteed Wage Increase and the CUA) (PDF, 0.13 MB).
Employees may also be eligible for annual incremental progression through pay points within their classification level (up to the classification cap).
Salary packaging
Employees may enter a salary packaging arrangement to suit their individual needs.
We have a number of providers in the Queensland Government.
Our people are our greatest asset, and your health and wellbeing are our priority. We provide a range of programs, initiatives, and support to help you thrive both at work and beyond.
Health and wellbeing programs – employees have access to a discounted fitness program provided by Fitness Passport. There are several initiatives available to support ‘Keeping you well’.
Employee Assistance Program (EAP), employees and their immediate family members have free, confidential access to 24/7 counselling and support services. The program includes:
- personal support – professional counselling and advice for any aspect of work or personal life
- manager support – confidential coaching and guidance to help navigate workplace challenges
- health and wellbeing resources – online tools, training, and programs to help you look after your wellbeing and reach your full potential.
OIR have dedicated safety teams that reviews and updates procedures to ensure safety at work, alongside a dedicated return to work team that assists workers to remain or return to work following an injury or illness whether work or non-work related, providing reasonable adjustments and support.