The state government has announced a new wages framework for the public sector which includes pay increases of up to 3 per cent.
Under the previous Labor government public service wage increases were capped at 2.5 per cent.
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It comes as the government this week confirmed plans to axe administrative public servants on temporary contracts to save money.
Queensland Treasurer Tim Nicholls says public servants would be offered wage increases above CPI in exchange for "efficiency and productivity growth".
"We want our public servants to be paid well, but we want them to deliver for Queenslanders," he told reporters in Brisbane on Saturday.
New productivity benchmarks would be set by divisional managers and directors-general of departments, he said.
The state government will take the wages framework to public sector unions during enterprise bargaining over the next 12 months.
The opposition welcomed the wage framework but said the government should come clean on how many jobs it intends to cut.
Opposition Leader Annastacia Palaszczuk says if the treasurer has worked out the government's wages bill, he should be able to say how many jobs will go.
She has been told by union figures that up to 30,000 jobs are in the firing line, but Mr Nicholls has said it would be months before a review would determine how many public servants are needed.
"Until we hear a definite figure from Mr Newman or Mr Nicholls, all of those 30,000 government workers are entitled to feel disappointed by a government that promised no forced redundancies," Ms Palaszczuk said in a statement.
