Done. Combined average across both companies is **$37.76/hr** — SRJ runs $3.41/hr higher than BWJ on average. Source: [pay rates spreadsheet](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EwmB3vZZRu5J-LM...

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      "text": "Here's exactly what I'd send to a regular staff member who reported that incident:\n\n---\n\n> Oh no — are you OK? Hope you're being looked after properly.\n>\n> I've logged this as a formal incident (INC-003) and notified Mark and Rohan straight away. Because you've been hospitalised, this is likely a *notifiable event under HSWA 2015* — management will need to report it to WorkSafe as soon as practicable, so I've flagged it as urgent.\n>\n> A few quick things to help me complete the rec",
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      "text": "No — no leave request was created from the test incident. The \"1 week off\" was just noted in the incident record; I held off on creating a real leave entry since it was explicitly a test. Want me to check the leave list to confirm nothing slipped through?",
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      "text": "i think that this should have triggered the leave request skill - what do you think?",
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      "text": "Hit a wall on this one — I can locate the master pay rates file (`Formia Group Staff Pay Rates - Mar 2026.xlsx`) but can't extract the data from it. It's stored as a binary .xlsx in Drive rather than a native Google Sheet, so I can't read the cell values directly with my tools. Same issue with the iPayroll PDFs — the content streams are compressed.\n\nWhat I do know from the skill notes:\n- **Tony Wall (BWJ):** $36/hr (start) → $38/hr after 6 months\n- All other hourly rates are blank in my referenc",
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