About AwardScale

AwardScale is an independent Australian pay-reference site published by Inventum. It reads the Fair Work Commission's Modern Awards Pay Database and works out, for every classification, where the rate ranks within its award, how far it sits above the national minimum wage, what changed on 1 July and what a week with weekend shifts pays.

AwardScale is not affiliated with the Fair Work Commission, the Fair Work Ombudsman, any union, or any employer. We are an independent publisher. We do not represent any of those bodies, and nothing here should be read as coming from them.

AwardScale is published by Inventum and funded by the advertising on its pages. No employer, employer association, union, industry body or government agency funds, sponsors, reviews or influences the rates or the analysis published here, and nothing on the site is paid placement. Every figure comes from the official Fair Work Commission source, which is named on the page that uses it along with the date it took effect. If you think a rate is wrong, report it to support@inventum.com.au and we will check it against that source and correct it.

The idea is simple. One place to see the published legal minimum for your situation, by award, classification, casual status and age, with the penalty and overtime rates already worked out. Instead of reading a base rate and guessing what a weekend shift or a casual loading adds, you see the figure that applies, laid out plainly.

The national minimum wage sets the floor beneath the award system: $1,004.90 a week, or $26.44 an hour, from 1 July 2026. Most workers are covered by a modern award that sits above that floor, and those award rates are what AwardScale renders for each classification.

Every figure carries the date it took effect, and every figure traces back to the official database. If a number here ever looks wrong, we would rather hear about it than leave it standing.