WA award summaries

Wageline's WA award summaries outline pay rates, working hours and leave arrangements for specific industries and occupations covered by the most widely used WA state awards.
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The Western Australian Industrial Relations Commission is currently progressing a number of award updating matters, including the consolidation of awards in some industries. Changes to WA Awards provides further details. Previous WA award summaries for WA awards that are no longer in use can be found in the Archived award summaries section below.

Many employers and employees in the WA state industrial relations system are covered by WA awards. WA awards are legal documents that set rates of pay and working arrangements in a particular industry or occupation.

Each WA award summary details:

  • what industries and/or occupations the award covers
  • the current pay rates and major allowances
  • working hours
  • leave entitlements, including minimum entitlements from employment laws
  • notice periods and entitlements when employment ends.

Some WA awards contain pay rates that are currently below the State Minimum Wage. The correct rates are published in Wageline's WA award summaries.

On 26 April 2025 casual loading increased to 25% for all private sector and local government awards that have a casual loading below 25%. Find out more on Increase to casual pay rates for many WA awards.

Labour hire employers and employees

Labour hire employers and employees are currently covered by many WA awards. An award does not necessarily need to specify it extends to labour hire employees for labour hire employees to be covered by it. Whether or not an award covers labour hire employees in a particular industry or occupation will depend on the specific wording of each award. Visit Understanding WA awards for more information.

WA award summaries are only relevant to state system employers and employees

National system employers and employees can get award information from the Fair Work Ombudsman

The page for each WA award summary also includes previous versions of the relevant WA award summary for up to 6 years. These are provided as a resource for employers and employees. The previous versions contain out-of-date rates of pay.

Archived award summaries

The award summaries in this section relate to WA awards that have been consolidated into new awards. The previous award summaries are available for historical purposes and contain out-of-date rates of pay.

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