Educational Services Award Penalty Rates
Saturday, Sunday, public holiday and overtime multipliers under the Educational Services (Schools) General Staff Award, effective from 1 July 2026.
Award MINIMUM rates — enterprise agreements may differ. Check your classification's exact base rate on the Fair Work pay guide.
Educational Services (Schools) General Staff Award [MA000076] — rates effective 1 July 2026
Casual employees get a 25% loading, included automatically in the results below.
Your award classification's ordinary hourly rate — check the exact figure on the Fair Work pay guide for your role, then enter it here.
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Educational Services Award penalty rate multipliers
Multipliers apply to your OWN base hourly rate (find it on the Fair Work pay guide for your classification) — they are not full wage tables.
| Rate type | Full-time / part-time | Casual |
|---|---|---|
| Saturday | 150% | 175% |
| Sunday | 200% | 225% |
| Public holiday | 250% | 275% |
| Afternoon shift | 115.0% | 140% |
| Night shift | 115.0% | 140% |
| Permanent night shift | 130% | 155% |
| Overtime — Mon–Fri, first 3 hours | 150% | 175% |
| Overtime — Mon–Fri, after 3 hours | 200% | 225% |
| Overtime — Saturday, first 3 hours (non-nursing services employees) | 150% | 175% |
| Overtime — Saturday, after 3 hours (non-nursing services employees) | 200% | 225% |
| Overtime — Sunday (non-nursing services employees) | 200% | 225% |
This award's general staff classification covers school support roles — admin, IT, grounds, library, laboratory and health/learning-support assistants. School operational services employees in cooking, catering and non-averaged-hours boarding supervision have their own lower Saturday/Sunday rates under this award, not modelled here; nursing services employees have a separate combined Saturday-and-Sunday overtime rate, also not modelled here.
Casual loading stacks additively on every row in this award, including overtime — casual = full-time rate + 25 percentage points throughout.
Boarding supervision employees whose hours are averaged over a 12-month period are not entitled to shift loadings, penalty rates or overtime under this award — not modelled here.
Casual loading interaction
Casual employees under the Educational Services Award get a 25% casual loading on their base hourly rate, in exchange for not receiving paid annual leave, personal/carer's leave or notice of termination. That loading generally stacks additively on top of weekend and public holiday penalties — e.g. a Sunday penalty of 200% for full-time staff becomes 225% for casuals under this award.
Check the notes in the table above — some awards (Hospitality, Restaurant) pay casuals the SAME overtime rate as full-time/part-time staff, with no extra casual loading stacked on overtime specifically.
Worked dollar examples
Illustrative examples only — NOT classification minimum wages. Use your own base rate in the penalty rates calculator for an accurate figure.
$24.50/hr base rate
$28.00/hr base rate
$32.00/hr base rate
Public holidays
Public holiday penalty rates apply on the gazetted public holidays for your state or territory, which differ from the standard national list in some years. See the full, current list on Fair Work: Public holidays.