Professional and Executive occupation category
Save on your insurance
If you're a GESB Super or West State Super member with insurance cover, you might be eligible to join our Professional and Executive occupation category.
If you meet the eligibility criteria, you could keep your current level of cover but save on your insurance premiums.
You could pay 20% less for your Death and Total & Permanent Disablement (TPD) cover*
You could pay 10% less for your Salary Continuance Insurance (SCI)*
*compared to White Collar rates
How to apply
Make sure you're eligible
You're eligible if you meet all these criteria:
- You earn a gross income of at least $100,000 a year1
- You primarily work in an office environment and sedentary capacity2 no less than 80% of the time (excluding travel time from office to office)
- You meet either the Professional or Executive definition:
- Professional: you hold a tertiary qualification or are a member of a professional institute or body approved by our Insurer3
- Executive: you're part of your employer's executive management team 4
If you work part time, you could still be eligible to apply if your pro-rata income is $100,000 p.a. or more and you work at least 0.6 Full-Time Equivalent (FTE). For example, if you work three days a week and earn $63,000 p.a., your FTE would be $105,000 p.a., which is more than the $100,000 minimum amount.
Understand your insurance
It's important that you understand how your insurance works before making any changes.
When you apply, you'll need to confirm that you've read our Insurance and your super brochure.
Apply online
You can apply online in two ways:
- Online form
Use our online form to apply
OR - Member Online
Click the 'Change your insurance' button in the Insurance tab in Member Online
Please note, changes to your insurance category and premiums won't display in Member Online until after your application has been approved and processed.
Submit a paper-based form
You can also submit our paper form by downloading the Professional and Executive category brochure and completing the form on pages 3 and 4.
Important note about your insurance changes
Your death and TPD cover will be fixed
Once you become covered for our Professional and Executive category, the value of your Death and/or TPD cover will be fixed automatically. This means you'll be covered for the same amount until you turn 61, unless you choose to change it in the future.
However, when you turn 61, any TPD amount insured will reduce linearly on each birthday until is it $10,000 at age 65. It will remain at this amount until you turn 67, when it will reduce to zero. Your Death cover will remain fixed (unless you change it), until it expires when you turn 70.
Need help
- Call us on 13 43 72
- Use Live chat
1 If you are working at least 0.6 FTE (Full-Time Equivalent) and earn an equivalent full-time salary of $100,000 p.a. or more, you meet the salary criteria.
2 Our Insurer, AIA Australia, has provided special approval for the following occupations as meeting the requirements for working in an office environment and sedentary capacity, even though they appear to be non-office based roles: Specialist Medical Practitioners, General Medical Practitioners, Legal Professionals, Solicitors, Dental Practitioners, Legislators, Judicial and Other Legal Professionals, Pharmacists and school Principals. (Note: Nurses and School Teachers do not meet the requirement of working in an office environment and sedentary capacity).
3 The Insurer has approved a set number of professional institutes and bodies. If you do not hold a tertiary qualification or work in an executive management position and are unsure if your professional institute or body qualifies, contact your Member Services Centre on 13 43 72.
4 You are considered part of the executive management team if you are the Chief Executive Officer or similar position, or report directly to the Chief Executive Officer, or are employed in the Senior Executive Service, or are a Member of Parliament.
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