A Third of Remote-Working Australians Willing to Take a Pay Cut for Better Work-Life Balance

The findings bring Australia close to the global average of 36 percent of employees who prefer salary cuts for the sake of receiving remote work benefits.

A woman using a laptop on a dining room table set up as a remote office to work from home on March 4, 2020. Joe Giddens/PA Wire

Some Australian employees are choosing flexibility over salary as evidenced by their willingness to take pay cuts to continue working remotely, according to a recent survey by Capterra.

Capterra’s 2024 Cost of Work survey consulted with 248 employees across Australia out of 2,716 participants from 11 countries internationally in March.