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Easy Skill publishes an independent salary outlook for Papua New Guinea

The 25 July 2025

Easy Skill’s new PNG salary outlook helps businesses anticipate wage trends, labour shifts, and talent shortages linked to major upcoming projects.

New study helps businesses prepare for upcoming project-driven labour shifts across PNG.

Brisbane-based workforce solutions firm Easy Skill has released Wages In Motion – PNG 2025–2030, an independent workforce and salary outlook focused on Papua New Guinea’s resource and infrastructure sectors.

The study presents forward-looking scenarios based on the upcoming construction of major projects, including Papua LNG, Wafi-Golpu, Kwinza, and Frieda River. Drawing on 20 years of historical wage data and future macroeconomic projections, it offers valuable insights for companies planning their workforce strategies in the years ahead.

Pierre Bussy, co-founder of Easy Skill, said:

The next five years will reshape the labour market in PNG. For companies operating or entering the region, it’s essential to anticipate workforce pressures, talent shortages, and wage inflation before they occur.

The report breaks down salary trends sector by sector—extractive and non extractive—and outlines three projected salary evolution scenarios (baseline, moderate, high) based on project timing.

The study also addresses broader trends, including workforce disparities, productivity shifts, and the impact of exchange rates on purchasing power in PNG. It is aimed at HR leaders, project directors, and financial planners working in or around the Asia-Pacific region.

Easy Skill, with offices in both Australia and Papua New Guinea, developed the study to support its industrial clients and strengthen long-term workforce resilience in the region.

Pierre added: