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 SCHADS Award
The SCHADS Award (MA000100) covers disability support workers, community workers, and home care employees. It is one of the most complex Modern Awards, with sleepover provisions, broken shift allowances, and travel-between-clients requirements that are frequently missed.
What Shift It handles
The complexity behind the SCHADS Award.
Shift It reads the award so you don't have to. Here's what it accounts for.
Sleepovers
Flat sleepover allowances and active-care interruption rates are tracked separately and combined into your expected total.
Broken & split shifts
Split-shift and broken-shift allowances are applied automatically when your roster shows the qualifying gap between work periods.
Common questions
SCHADS Award pay questions, answered.
Things workers actually search for — with straight answers.
What is the sleepover rate under the SCHADS Award?
A flat sleepover allowance is paid per sleepover shift. If you are woken for active care, those hours attract the ordinary or penalty rate in addition to the allowance.1
What is the Sunday penalty rate under SCHADS?
Sunday work is paid at 200% of the minimum hourly rate (double time). Casual employees receive the casual loading in addition.1
What is the broken shift allowance?
Workers required to work two or more separate periods in a day with an unpaid break receive a broken shift allowance. The maximum span is 12 hours from start to finish; work beyond this is paid at 200%.2
Check your SCHADS Award pay.
Import your roster, pick your classification, and Shift It calculates exactly what you should have been paid — penalties, overtime, allowances, and all.