Armaguard Pay Rates 2026: Guard, Site & Shift Pay

Armaguard is a cash-in-transit operator, formed from the merger of the Linfox-owned Armaguard business with Prosegur's Australian cash operations, running armoured-vehicle crews and cash-processing centres nationally. Its workforce is heavily casualised compared with most security employers, reflecting the shift-based nature of cash-in-transit work.

Cash-in-transit crew and cash-processing work at Armaguard sits on the Security Services Industry Award 2020, which sets the pay floor. Armaguard has registered enterprise agreements covering its cash operations in several states — listed below where our corpus holds them — and each must leave employees better off overall than the award.

The federal awards relevant to Armaguard roles:

• Security Services Industry Award 2020 (MA000016)

Workforce snapshot. In the 2024-25 Workplace Gender Equality Agency reports, Linfox Armaguard Pty Ltd, Prosegur Australia Pty Limited reported 2,275 employees (part of the Fox Group Holdings Pty Ltd group, 2,309 employees in total, 25.4% casual and 36.7% women). Source: WGEA 2025 Public Data File, data.gov.au (CC-BY 3.0 AU).

The Security Services Industry Award 2020 (MA000016) adult minimums are:

Night shift, weekend and overtime loadings are where a security roster's pay is made: the award's own worked examples put a Level 1 casual Saturday at 175% and Sunday at 225% of the base rate. Check a specific roster 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 Armaguard agreements in our corpus (9 in total):

• Armaguard and United Workers Union Security Services (Avalon) Agreement 2025 — approved May 2025, nominal expiry 24 November 2027.
• ARMAGUARD CASH (NSW) AGREEMENT 2024 — approved December 2024, nominal expiry 1 July 2027.
• Armaguard Road (SA) Agreement 2023 — approved June 2023, nominal expiry 3 July 2026.
• Armaguard Cash (Qld Country) Agreement 2023 — approved October 2023, nominal expiry 30 June 2026.
• Armaguard Cash (Qld Country) Agreement 2023 — approved October 2023, nominal expiry 30 June 2026.
• Armaguard Cash Processing Enterprise Agreement (South Australia) 2022 — approved April 2023, nominal expiry 19 April 2026.
• Armaguard Cash (WA) Agreement 2023 — approved January 2024, nominal expiry 31 December 2025.
• Armaguard Cash (WA) Agreement 2023 — approved January 2024, nominal expiry 31 December 2025.

Plus 1 more — search "Armaguard" 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.

The patterns worth checking on a Armaguard payslip:

• Level 1 for control-room, senior or supervisory work.
• Night, weekend and overtime loadings absorbed into a flat rate that doesn't beat the award for the roster.
• Unpaid handover, briefing and travel between sites.
• Long shifts without the award's overtime and rest-break rules.

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.