Telstra CEO gets $700,000 pay rise to $6.8m despite Australia-wide outage
Telstra CEO Vicki Brady has received a pay rise despite her bonus being docked after a national mobile outage. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAPView image in fullscreenTelstra CEO Vicki Brady has received a pay rise despite her bonus being docked after a national mobile outage. It paid shareholders a dividend of 21 cents per share.Telstra has cut costs by cutting jobs: employee numbers fell by 1,219 over the year to a total 29,334 by June.Income from mobile phones rose $300m to $11.3bn, with customers paying an extra 7.2% on prepaid handheld plans and an extra 3.4% on postpaid handheld plans.
- ▪Telstra CEO Vicki Brady has received a pay rise despite her bonus being docked after a national mobile outage.
- ▪Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAPView image in fullscreenTelstra CEO Vicki Brady has received a pay rise despite her bonus being docked after a national mobile outage.
- ▪It paid shareholders a dividend of 21 cents per share.Telstra has cut costs by cutting jobs: employee numbers fell by 1,219 over the year to a total 29,334 by June.Income from mobile phones rose $300m to $11.3bn, with customers paying an ex
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Telstra CEO Vicki Brady has received a pay rise despite her bonus being docked after a national mobile outage. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAPView image in fullscreenTelstra CEO Vicki Brady has received a pay rise despite her bonus being docked after a national mobile outage. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAPTelstraTelstra CEO gets $700,000 pay rise to $6.8m despite Australia-wide outageTelco board cuts senior executive bonuses by total $1.3m after tech fail that affected millions Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Luca Ittimani and Josh TaylorWed 12 Aug 2026 22.16 EDTFirst published on Wed 12 Aug 2026 21.37 EDTSharePrefer the Guardian on GoogleTelstra has paid its chief executive, Vicki Brady, $6.8m for the year ending…
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