CSIRO chief received $198,517 bonus in year agency cut hundreds of jobs
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CSIRO chief executive Doug Hilton received a bonus of $198,517 on top of his $789,391 base salary in the last financial year, according to its 2025-2026 annual report. That year, the national science agency made cuts that shrank its workforce by several hundred people.