Security Services Award Penalty Rates
Saturday, Sunday, public holiday and overtime multipliers under the Security Services Industry Award 2020, 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.
Security Services Industry Award 2020 [MA000016] — 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.
Select an award and enter your base hourly rate to see the full penalty-rate table
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Security 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% |
| Night span (Mon–Fri, non-permanent) | 121.7% | 146.7% |
| Permanent night work (Mon–Fri) | 130% | 155% |
| Overtime — Mon–Fri, first 2 hours | 150% | 150% |
| Overtime — Mon–Fri, after 2 hours | 200% | 200% |
| Overtime — Sunday | 200% | 200% |
| Overtime — public holiday | 250% | 250% |
Casual loading is not paid on top of overtime rates — casual overtime equals the full-time/part-time overtime rate (same structure as the Hospitality and Restaurant awards). Saturday, Sunday, public holiday and shift loadings DO get the standard 25-percentage-point casual addition.
The night span figure (121.7%) is the award's own tabulated rate — it doesn't reduce to a round percentage, unlike this award's other loadings.
Casual loading interaction
Casual employees under the Security 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.