Educational Services (Schools) General Staff Award
Covers general (non-teaching) staff in the school education industry. Excludes teachers, principals, deputy principals, bursars / business managers and members of recognised religious teaching orders. Single sector with nine categories of general staff (boarding supervision, classroom support, curriculum / resources, instructional, nursing, preschool / childcare, school admin, school operational, wellbeing). 8 levels with pay points within levels (1.1 / 1.2 / 1.3, 2.1 / 2.2 etc). Standard rate Level 3.1.
Fully built. Rates, allowances, penalties and any required apprentice / junior rates are all wired to the rate resolver and have been verified against the consolidated award text and the latest pay guide.
Official Fair Work rates. This award’s minimum pay rates are synced directly from the Fair Work Commission’s Modern Awards Pay Database and updated automatically when the Commission changes them - including the annual wage review - so payroll always uses the current legal minimums without a manual update.
What's built
- All 17 pay-point rates across the 8 levels at the July 2025 figures.
- Junior rates (Levels 1 and 2 only): 5 age bands at 50 / 60 / 70 / 80 / 90%.
- Apprentice rates anchored to Level 3.1 weekly rate, pre-2014 / post-2014 with Y12 split.
- 10 allowances ($920.47 sleepover annual, $3.84 etc.) with first-aid annual and sleepover stored as percentages of standard rate per Schedule C.1.
- 13 penalty rows scoped by operational group via engagement_code.
- Six different spans of ordinary hours by operational group (cl. 14.6).
- RDO accruals at 24 minutes per 8-hour day worked, max 12 RDOs in any 12 months.
Known limitations
No outstanding gaps at this revision - re-verify on the next Fair Work pay-guide release.
Setup & special instructions
- Casual OT direction is OPPOSITE to the MA000112 default - cl. 21.2 NOTE specifies casual loading is ADDED on top of FT/PT OT rates (175 / 225 / 225 / 275%). Resolver code making MA000112-style assumptions will produce wrong rates here.
- Boarding supervision on 12-month averaging gets the annual rate paid throughout the year and is DISAPPLIED from cl. 12 (LWP non-term weeks), 14.8 (RDOs), 15 (shiftworker hours), 21 (overtime) and 22 (penalty rates) per cl. 14.5.
- Movement up a pay point within a level requires a 12-month performance review (cl. 17.2).
- Ordinary-hours span varies by operational group - assign the right group on each employee to drive the right span.
- • School education
- • Boarding supervision
- • School operations
- • Preschool / OOSH
The consolidated award text is the authoritative source. Always confirm specific obligations against the award itself - Mployr's implementation status reflects what we've seeded; it does not replace legal advice.
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