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 General Retail Award
The General Retail Industry Award (MA000004) covers workers in supermarkets, department stores, fashion, electronics, and most non-food retail. Key complexities include evening and weekend penalty rates, casual loading stacking, junior rate scales, and early-morning and late-night loadings.
What Shift It handles
The complexity behind the General Retail 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
General Retail Award pay questions, answered.
Things workers actually search for — with straight answers.
What are the weekend penalty rates in retail?
Saturday: 125% of the minimum hourly rate. Sunday: 150% for full-time and part-time employees. Casual employees receive 150% (Saturday) and 175% (Sunday) inclusive of the casual loading.1
What about late-night and early-morning loadings?
Hours worked between 6pm and 11pm Monday-Friday attract a per-hour evening loading. Work after 11pm or before 7am on a working day attracts a higher late-night or early-morning loading.1
How do junior rates work in retail?
Workers under 21 are paid a percentage of the adult rate, increasing yearly: 45% at under 16, scaling up to 90% at 20. Penalty rates apply on top of the junior base.1
What is the public holiday rate?
Work on a public holiday is paid at 225% for full-time and part-time employees, 250% for casuals.1
Check your General Retail Award pay.
Import your roster, pick your classification, and Shift It calculates exactly what you should have been paid — penalties, overtime, allowances, and all.