Brisbane Catholic Education Pay Rates 2026: Teacher & School Staff Pay

Brisbane Catholic Education runs around 150 schools across the Archdiocese of Brisbane, from the Gold Coast to the Sunshine Coast and west to Gatton, employing teachers, school officers, guidance counsellors and school administration staff.

Queensland's Catholic schools bargain through statewide employing-authority agreements for teachers and school officers (our corpus lists the Brisbane agreements below). The federal awards underneath — the Educational Services (Teachers) Award 2020 and the Educational Services (Schools) General Staff Award 2020 — are tabled below as the floor.

The federal awards relevant to Brisbane Catholic Education roles:

• Educational Services (Teachers) Award 2020 (MA000077)
• Educational Services (Schools) General Staff Award 2020 (MA000076)

Workforce snapshot. In its 2024-25 report to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency, The Corporation Of The Trustees Of The Roman Catholic Archdiocese Of Brisbane declared 13,221 employees — 20.4% casual and 80.9% women, with 279 in management roles. Source: WGEA 2025 Public Data File, data.gov.au (CC-BY 3.0 AU).

The Educational Services (Teachers) Award 2020 (MA000077) sets these annual minimums for school teachers:

Teachers progress by accreditation and experience; the award's Level 5 is for Highly Accomplished/Lead Teacher accreditation. Casual (relief) teachers are paid a daily rate derived from these figures.

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

Learning support officers, administration, IT, library, grounds and maintenance staff sit on the Educational Services (Schools) General Staff Award 2020 (MA000076). Entry pay points by level:

Term-time-only arrangements are common in schools; the award's annualised-pay and school-holiday rules matter as much as the hourly rate.

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 Brisbane Catholic Education agreements in our corpus (4 in total):

• Brisbane Catholic Education Principals' Agreement 2024 — approved October 2024, nominal expiry 30 June 2028.
• 2024 Centacare Community Services Enterprise Agreement — approved January 2025, nominal expiry 30 January 2028.
• Brisbane Catholic Education Office Employees’ Enterprise Agreement 2024 - 2027 — approved January 2025, nominal expiry 30 June 2027.
• Catholic Employers Single Enterprise Collective Agreement – Diocesan Schools of Queensland 2023-2026 — approved July 2024, nominal expiry 30 June 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 Brisbane Catholic Education payslip:

• Teacher pay steps not advancing with accreditation and years of service.
• Term-time-only support staff paid an annualised rate that doesn't match the hours actually worked.
• Unpaid duties — camps, evening events and supervision outside the agreed hours without the agreement's allowances.
• Wrong general-staff level for the responsibility actually carried.

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.