THE Queensland government didn't have to give its MPs a $57,000 pay rise, documents publicised by a union reveal.
The government on Friday upped the base salary of state MPs by 41 per cent to $194,000 annually.
It relied on advice from Crown Law which warned them it was illegally low after the Bligh government froze wages in 2009.
State MPs are required to earn $500 less each year than their federal counterparts, but the moratorium meant their salaries fell way behind.
The public service union Together has obtained the documents which shows the state government didn't legally have to give itself the increase.
The remuneration tribunal reported in December 2011 that Queensland should cut all ties to federal government remuneration.
"The tribunal recommends that any existing linkages between the remuneration of state and territory parliamentarians and assembly members and the base salary of federal parliamentarians be severed on the basis that it cannot be justified without a state based work value assessment similar to that conducted for federal parliamentarians," the document reads.
That advice was relayed to Premier Campbell Newman from the Clerk of Parliament Neil Laurie in April 2012.
Mr Laurie told Mr Newman he had four options; seek new advice on how to set members' salaries, link salaries to senior executives in the public service, have a new or existing tribunal set pay or continue to link it to federal counterparts but with greater variation.
The government had been saying its hands were tied.
Together union secretary Alex Scott says the documents reveal there is no basis for the "outrageous and obscene" pay rise.
"It shows what the government has been saying about the pay rise is lies, lies, lies," he said.
Opposition leader Annastacia Palaszczuk says it is within the government's power to amend or reject the pay rise and urged Mr Newman to act.
"This government is totally out of touch with what the people are saying out there," Ms Palaszczuk said.
"This is a government that solely cares about feathering its own nest.
"It is obscene, irresponsible and unforgivable."
She says if nothing is done, she'll invest her pay rise back into the community.
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