Ampol Pay Rates 2026: Console Operator, Store & Junior Pay

Ampol runs the country's largest fuel retail network — company-operated Ampol and Ampol Foodary sites plus franchised stores — alongside the Lytton refinery, terminals and a fuel distribution fleet. Console operators and store staff make up most of the workforce, with refinery operators, tanker drivers and depot staff behind them.

Service-station and Foodary staff at company-operated sites are covered by the Vehicle Repair, Services and Retail Award 2020, which has its own console-operator and driveway classifications; franchised sites are separate employers on the same award. Ampol's refinery, terminal and distribution businesses have their own enterprise agreements (below).

The federal awards relevant to Ampol roles:

• Vehicle Repair, Services and Retail Award 2020 (MA000089)

Workforce snapshot. In its 2024-25 report to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency, Ampol Limited declared 8,369 employees across 5 reporting entities — 48.3% casual and 41.1% women, with 1,244 in management roles. Source: WGEA 2025 Public Data File, data.gov.au (CC-BY 3.0 AU).

Service-station and convenience-store staff sit on the retail, service and repair (RS&R) stream of the Vehicle Repair, Services and Retail Award 2020 (MA000089):

Console operators working alone, night shifts and weekends attract the award's own loadings — the award publishes loaded console-operator rates for Monday–Friday, weekend and overtime hours. Check a specific shift with the penalty rates calculator.

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 Ampol agreements in our corpus (13 in total):

• Ampol Aviation (Brisbane) Enterprise Agreement 2025 — approved August 2025, nominal expiry 22 August 2029.
• Ampol Petroleum Distributors New South Wales Drivers’ Agreement 2026 — approved April 2026, nominal expiry 21 April 2029.
• Consolidated Retail & Ampol QSR Enterprise Agreement 2024 — approved November 2024, nominal expiry 28 November 2028.
• Ampol Petroleum Distributors Sydney Drivers' Agreement 2024 — approved June 2024, nominal expiry 20 June 2028.
• Ampol Aviation (Canberra) Enterprise Agreement 2025 — approved May 2025, nominal expiry 5 May 2028.
• Ampol Petroleum Distributors Western Australia Drivers’ Agreement 2024 — approved March 2024, nominal expiry 13 March 2028.
• Ampol Petroleum Distributors Western Australia Drivers’ Agreement 2024 — approved March 2024, nominal expiry 13 March 2028.
• Ampol Aviation (Sydney) Enterprise Agreement 2024 — approved December 2024, nominal expiry 1 September 2027.

Plus 5 more — search "Ampol" in our agreements database.

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.

General award-compliance issues that come up across the fuel retail sector. This is a checklist for your own payslip, not a finding about Ampol:

• Console operators working alone at night without the award's loaded rates.
• Junior rates not stepping up, and the wrong RS&R level for supervisory duties.
• Unpaid opens, closes and cash-ups.
• Franchise sites paying below the award — the franchisee is the employer, but the award still applies.

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.