In return for 40 years of contributions, it has agreed among other things to increase pay grades on which pension benefits are calculated.

作为对40年工作年限的回报，它已经同意提高工资水平，养老金就是以此工资水平为基础计算的。

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The study, from the University of Sydney and the Australian National University, Canberra, compared the pay grades of 20, 000 Australians with other data such as weight and height.

此项研究由悉尼大学和位于堪培拉的澳大利亚国立大学联合开展，研究选择了两万名澳大利亚人，并将其工资水平与身高体重等其他数据进行对比。

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People move on and jump ship to get higher pay grades.

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Although more than half a million women worked for the federal government, they made up 1.4 percent of the civil-service workers in the top four pay grades.

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He acknowledged a 1% cap was "tough" but said many public sector workers would be helped by "pay progression" - annual increases in salary grades - even when pay was frozen.

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