What is a Pay and Conditions Guide?
Pay and Conditions Guides provide a summary of wage rates, allowances and other entitlements such as hours of work and overtime for employees and employers covered by modern awards. You can also find information on frequency of payment provisions and a basic guide to penalty rate calculations from 1 July 2010.
Most modern award wage rates, penalties and loadings are calculated in reference to an employee’s pre-modern award entitlements from 1 July. Pay and Conditions Guides provide an easy way to view pre-calculated pay rates and loadings. The Guides will also include any increases resulting from Fair Work Australia’s annual wage review.
Important! From time to time we update pay rates in our pay tools. These updates could affect one or more modern awards. Employers should always subscribe to the pay rate updates for the awards that apply to them from the Pay rate updates page. You can also see a history of these updates going back to 1 July 2011.
Around 960 Pay and Conditions Guides are currently available covering work within top industries. You can download or print a copy of your Pay and Conditions Guide to keep on hand or store in the workplace.
You can access Pay and Conditions Guides for all of our industries through our Award Finder tool. Instructions on how to access them are available at How do I use a Pay and Conditions Guide?
Selected industry Pay and Conditions Guides
Below are links to Pay and Conditions Guides for key selected industries divided into states.