MA000106 · Award Penalty Rates

Real Estate Award Penalty Rates

Saturday, Sunday, public holiday and overtime multipliers under the Real Estate Industry Award, effective from 1 July 2026.

MA000106Full-time · casualEffective 1 July 2026

Award MINIMUM rates — enterprise agreements may differ. Check your classification's exact base rate on the Fair Work pay guide.

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Real Estate Industry Award [MA000106] — rates effective 1 July 2026

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Casual employees get a 25% loading, included automatically in the results below.

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Real Estate 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
Public holiday	200%	250%
Overtime — work on a day off or half day, first 2 hours	150%	—
Overtime — work on a day off or half day, after 2 hours	200%	—

This award does not provide separate Saturday, Sunday or evening/night penalty rates — real estate employees' ordinary hours are rostered across all 7 days by agreement, so only public holiday work and overtime beyond the agreed roster attract a penalty.

Casual public holiday pay is calculated as the full-time/part-time public holiday rate × the 1.25 casual-loading factor (multiplicative), not the simple additive +25-percentage-point pattern most other awards in this dataset use.

The Fair Work pay guide does not publish a separate casual overtime rate for this award.

Casual loading interaction

Casual employees under the Real Estate 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 X% for full-time staff becomes a higher % 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

Ordinary (casual, incl. loading)$30.63/hr

Public holiday (casual)$61.25/hr

$28.00/hr base rate

Ordinary (casual, incl. loading)$35.00/hr

Public holiday (casual)$70.00/hr

$32.00/hr base rate

Ordinary (casual, incl. loading)$40.00/hr

Public holiday (casual)$80.00/hr

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.

FAQ

What are the penalty rates under the Real Estate Industry Award?

Under the Real Estate Award [MA000106], full-time and part-time employees are paid a higher rate on Sunday and 200% on public holidays, on top of their ordinary base rate. Casual employees get a further loading on top of these figures. Rates are effective from the first full pay period on or after 1 July 2026.

Do casual employees get penalty rates on top of the 25% casual loading?

Yes — under the Real Estate Award, the 25% casual loading and the applicable penalty rate (Saturday, Sunday, public holiday, shift loading or overtime) both apply on top of the base rate.

Is this my exact pay rate?

This page applies the Real Estate Award's PERCENTAGE multipliers to an illustrative base rate — it does not look up your specific classification's minimum dollar rate. Confirm your classification and base rate on the Fair Work pay guide for this award, then use the penalty rates calculator to apply these multipliers to your own rate.

What if I work on a public holiday that falls on my usual day off?

Public holiday entitlements and substitution rules can be complex — check the full list of gazetted public holidays for your state and the award's specific public holiday clauses on the Fair Work public holidays page.