How the new payday super changes will benefit your hip pocket

June 21, 2026 — 3:00am

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There are many topics I love covering in this column, and it’s fun to sit down each week and work out what interesting things I can write about, or what quirks of our financial system to highlight. It’s often varied, regularly eye-opening for me (and I hope you too), and all around a good time.

And then there are some weeks where I feel a bit like a game show host, turning a big dial that says “how good is superannuation” to the right as the crowd (you) cheers raucously (quietly reads on your couch) behind me. This is one of those weeks.

But, in my defence, when you have one of the greatest retirement saving schemes in the world, there’s plenty to be cheering about. Especially as, come July 1, it’s about to get even better, if you can believe that.

Next financial year marks the start of the government’s long-awaited payday super changes, which, as the name suggests, means workers will start to be paid their super at the same time as they are paid their regular pay.

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