Bega Group Pay Rates 2026: Production, Trades & Shift Pay

Bega Group is a dairy and grocery manufacturer running cheese, milk-processing and packaged-foods operations — including the former Tatura Milk Industries and Bega Dairy and Drinks businesses — from factories concentrated in regional Victoria and New South Wales. Its workforce is mostly permanent and works across processing, packaging, maintenance and quality roles at its dairy sites.

The Food, Beverage and Tobacco Manufacturing Award 2020 (Levels 1–6) is the floor for factory roles across Bega's dairy and drinks plants. Bega has registered a substantial number of site-specific enterprise agreements — listed below where our corpus holds them — and any agreement covering a Bega, Tatura Milk or Bega Dairy and Drinks site must leave employees better off overall than the award.

The federal awards relevant to Bega Group roles:

• Food, Beverage and Tobacco Manufacturing Award 2020 (MA000073)

Workforce snapshot. In its 2024-25 report to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency, Bega Cheese Limited declared 3,595 employees across 9 reporting entities — 4.8% casual and 30% women. Source: WGEA 2025 Public Data File, data.gov.au (CC-BY 3.0 AU).

Production, packing and plant staff sit on the Food, Beverage and Tobacco Manufacturing Award 2020 (MA000073). The adult minimums are:

Levels rise with the skills and qualifications the job requires, from Level 1 (entry, first three months) through production and trade-qualified roles. Shift, overtime and weekend loadings apply on top; plant agreements restructure these and sit above the ladder.

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 Bega Group agreements in our corpus (36 in total):

• Bega Bentley Blow Moulding Enterprise Agreement 2026 — approved May 2026, nominal expiry 14 June 2029.
• Bega Penrith Reliability (Mechanical Fitters) Enterprise Agreement 2025 — approved April 2026, nominal expiry 31 December 2028.
• Bega Malanda Production, Logistics & Laboratory Enterprise Agreement 2025 — approved April 2026, nominal expiry 12 December 2028.
• Bega Valley Enterprise Agreement 2025 — approved August 2025, nominal expiry 12 July 2028.
• Bega Bentley Production Enterprise Agreement 2025 — approved November 2025, nominal expiry 14 June 2028.
• Bega Bentley Production Enterprise Agreement 2025 — approved November 2025, nominal expiry 14 June 2028.
• Bega Koroit Reliability Enterprise Agreement 2025 — approved June 2025, nominal expiry 30 April 2028.
• Bega Strathmerton AMWU / ETU Enterprise Agreement 2025 — approved May 2025, nominal expiry 31 March 2028.

Plus 28 more — search "Bega Group" 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 Bega Group payslip:

• Wrong C-level for the skills and qualifications actually used.
• Shift and overtime loadings absorbed into flat rates.
• Unpaid pre-start, PPE and handover time.
• Labour-hire pay gaps against directly employed staff doing the same job.

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.