You will need to know all relevant information on entitlements from the modern award and the pre-modern award for the Pay Rates Calculator to calculate the employee’s base rate of pay and penalties. Among other things, this will include:
- the employee’s relevant modern award and transitional award classification
- information on any applicable industry allowance and / or all-purpose allowances
- detailed information on penalties for the modern and pre-modern award.
You will also need to know an employee’s working hours to calculate penalty rates for a particular shift.
The Pay Rates Calculator will help you identify the relevant entitlements from the modern award you select. You will however, need to provide all information transitional award entitlements to complete your calculations.
The Pay Rates Calculator will calculate minimum rates of pay based on the details you provide. If you have not provided the right information, or there are changes in your circumstances, it may affect the accuracy of the rates that the Pay Rates Calculator provides.
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Note: For NSW, SA, Queensland and Tasmanian employers who entered the national workplace relations system on 1 January 2011 more information is available at State system employers moving into the national workplace relations system.