FairWork Mate Insights
The intelligence layer of the platform. Data-driven analysis of Australian pay, awards and workplace compliance — drawn from the public Fair Work record and our own verified datasets. Sector-level patterns, never individual employers. For news and how-to guides, see the blog.
The big picture · Fair Work enforcement, FY2014–15 to FY2025–26
Insights
What Australia's wage-compliance record shows
$601.6M recovered for 153,754 workers, where underpayment happens, and why enforcement has risen ~5× since 2019 — sector-level, from the public Fair Work record.
What Australia's workplace-safety enforcement shows
1,370 WHS prosecutions carrying $164.2M in penalties — including 237 workplace fatalities — and the sectors, states and injury levels behind them. Aggregate, from Safe Work Australia's public record.
More insights on the way
We're expanding the intelligence layer — award-by-award compliance, enforcement trends and more, all from verified data.
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Our AI advisor is grounded in the same Fair Work and Safe Work records. Ask it anything — which industries, how much, how it's changing — in plain English.
Figures are aggregated from the Fair Work Ombudsman's public enforcement record and refresh as new outcomes are published. We report sector-level patterns only and do not name individual employers. General information, not legal advice.