AGL Pay Rates 2026: EA Pay Levels & Award Floor

AGL generates and retails electricity and gas, running major generation assets including the Loy Yang and Macquarie power stations alongside its household and business energy retail operations. Its workforce is entirely permanent rather than casual and covers power-station operators and maintenance trades, wind and renewable-generation staff, and retail and customer-service teams.

The Electrical Power Industry Award 2020 is the floor for generation and network roles at sites like Loy Yang and Macquarie. AGL's retail and contact-centre staff may instead sit on the Contract Call Centres Award 2020 or the Clerks — Private Sector Award 2020 depending on which AGL entity employs them, so check the employer name on your payslip. AGL has registered enterprise agreements covering individual power stations, wind operations and state-based functions — listed below where our corpus holds them — and each must leave employees better off overall than the relevant award.

The federal awards relevant to AGL roles:

• Electrical Power Industry Award 2020 (MA000088)

Workforce snapshot. In its 2024-25 report to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency, AGL Energy Limited declared 4,448 employees across 5 reporting entities — 0% casual and 36.5% women. Source: WGEA 2025 Public Data File, data.gov.au (CC-BY 3.0 AU).

The Electrical Power Industry Award 2020 (MA000088) uses common pay levels across its operations, technical, administrative and professional streams:

Source: Fair Work Commission modern awards pay database, current-operative rates (1 July 2026 annual wage review). Casual figures add the 25% casual loading.

Enterprise agreements set rates above the award, with their own classification structures and allowances. Current AGL agreements in our corpus (6 in total):

• AGL Energy Limited South Australia Enterprise Agreement 2026 — approved August 2026, nominal expiry 21 August 2029.
• AGL Loy Yang Enterprise Agreement 2025 — approved May 2025, nominal expiry 2 March 2029.
• AGL Hydro Agreement 2024 — approved January 2025, nominal expiry 31 May 2028.
• AGL Victoria Wind Operations Enterprise Agreement 2024 — approved June 2024, nominal expiry 1 October 2027.
• AGL Macquarie Enterprise Agreement 2024 — approved January 2024, nominal expiry 1 July 2027.
• AGL Energy Limited South Australia Enterprise Agreement 2023 — approved August 2023, nominal expiry 9 August 2026.

We don't reproduce agreement dollar figures here — the agreement covering your site, state and stream is the document to read. Find your agreement, then your classification, then your pay point, and compare it with your payslip. The award tables on this page are the floor every one of these agreements must beat.

The patterns worth checking on a AGL payslip:

• Agreement pay levels not stepping up with qualifications and competencies.
• On-call, call-out and standby allowances missed or under-paid.
• Travel time to remote sites unpaid.
• Overtime during storm and outage response paid at the wrong rate.

Match your payslip to your classification in the agreement (or the award tables above), and price any gap with our back-pay calculator. Raise it in writing with payroll or your manager first — most underpayments are fixed at that step. Unresolved, the Fair Work Ombudsman (13 13 94) recovers underpayments at no cost, up to six years back, and your union can run the claim for you. Not sure which instrument covers you? Ask our AI advisor with your role and location.