Performers still reeling from the pandemic aren’t ruling out a strike, as the company refuses to guarantee their pay will keep pace with inflation
“We had to dip into our savings and now with inflation, the cost of living is going up so high and many of us have no savings left,” one dancer said.
When Covid hit in 2020, the Australian Ballet cut its dancers’ wages by 20% and then by 50% to reflect a drastically reduced workload. The company drew on the federal government’s JobKeeper scheme to pay workers.In February this year the dancers received a 4.3% “catch-up” pay rise to meet the obligations of the CPI clause, after receiving just 2.5% in 2022 when inflation peaked at over 7%.
With 60% of the company’s revenue drawn from ticket sales and theatres closing down from March 2020, the Australian Ballet managed to contain its losses in the first year of the pandemic to just $2.4m – largely thanks to patrons donating about $3m to the company by opting to forgo ticket refunds for the 2020 season.
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