Penalty rates
Every shift is split at rate-change boundaries — 10pm, midnight, weekends, public holidays — so each hour is rated at exactly the right loading.
Pay Check
Pay Check for the Fast Food Award
The Fast Food Industry Award (MA000003) covers workers at quick-service restaurants including McDonald’s, KFC, and Hungry Jack’s. Key complexities include evening and late-night penalty windows, junior rate scales (from 40% of the adult rate for under-16s up to 90% for 20-year-olds), and public holiday penalties.
What Shift It handles
The complexity behind the Fast Food Award.
Shift It reads the award so you don't have to. Here's what it accounts for.
Payslip comparison
Enter the gross on your payslip. Shift It shows whether it matches your calculated entitlement — and if not, exactly how much is missing.
Common questions
Fast Food Award pay questions, answered.
Things workers actually search for — with straight answers.
What is the evening loading under the Fast Food Award?
The award prescribes penalty rates for hours worked between 10 pm and midnight (evening) and midnight to 6 am (late night), as set out in Clause 21, Table 6.1 Shift It splits your shift at each boundary automatically.
What are the Sunday penalty rates in fast food?
Sunday rates vary by classification. Level 1 employees receive 125% of the minimum rate; Level 2 and 3 employees receive 150%. Casual employees receive 150% (Saturday) and 175% (Sunday).1
How do junior rates work?
Workers under 21 are paid a percentage of the adult rate that increases each year of age, from 40% for under-16s to 90% for 20-year-olds. All penalty rates are then applied on top of the junior base.1
Check your Fast Food Award pay.
Import your roster, pick your classification, and Shift It calculates exactly what you should have been paid — penalties, overtime, allowances, and all.