Country Road Group Pay Rates 2026: Store, Casual & Junior Pay

Country Road Group runs the Country Road, Witchery, Mimco and Politix fashion brands, with stores in shopping centres and CBD strips across the country. Store teams are mostly casual and part-time sales assistants and visual merchandisers, with a small permanent management layer per store and a logistics and fulfilment operation behind the stores.

Store pay across all four brands sits on the General Retail Industry Award 2020. The group has registered an enterprise agreement covering its logistics and fulfilment centre (listed below); in-store roles not covered by an agreement should be checked against the award ladder and junior percentages below.

The federal awards relevant to Country Road Group (Country Road, Witchery, Mimco, Politix) roles:

• General Retail Industry Award 2020 (MA000004)

Workforce snapshot. In the 2024-25 Workplace Gender Equality Agency reports, Country Road Clothing Pty. Ltd. reported 3,114 employees (part of the Woolworths Holdings Limited group, 5,085 employees in total, 52.4% casual and 89.1% women). Source: WGEA 2025 Public Data File, data.gov.au (CC-BY 3.0 AU).

From 1 July 2026 the General Retail Industry Award 2020 (MA000004) adult minimums are:

If you're 21 or older and your payslip shows less than Level 1, something is wrong.

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

The General Retail Industry Award pays juniors a percentage of the Level 1 adult rate. From 1 July 2026 the junior minimums are:

• Under 16: $12.51/hr
• 16 years: $13.91/hr
• 17 years: $16.69/hr
• 18 years: $19.47/hr
• 19 years: $22.25/hr
• 20 years (first 6 months with the employer): $25.03/hr
• 20 years (after 6 months — full adult rate): $27.81/hr

Your rate must step up from the first full pay period after each birthday. Casual juniors add the 25% loading on top of these figures. An enterprise agreement's junior scale must leave you better off than this ladder overall.

The retail award floor for permanent adult staff outside ordinary spans, at Level 1:

• Saturday: 125% — $34.76/hr
• Sunday: 150% — $41.71/hr
• Public holiday: 225% — $62.57/hr

Casuals are paid 150% of the ordinary rate on Saturday, 175% on Sunday and 250% on public holidays (those percentages already include the casual loading). Overtime for permanents runs at 150% for the first three hours and 200% after. Price a specific roster with our penalty rates calculator.

Enterprise agreements set rates above the award, with their own classification structures and allowances. Current Country Road Group (Country Road, Witchery, Mimco, Politix) agreements in our corpus (2 in total):

• Country Road Group Logistics Omni Fulfilment Centre Enterprise Agreement 2025 — approved January 2025, nominal expiry 30 January 2029.
• Baiada Farms Pty Ltd Country Road Hatchery (Tamworth) Enterprise Agreement 2023-2027 — approved May 2023, nominal expiry 14 March 2027.

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 Country Road Group (Country Road, Witchery, Mimco, Politix) payslip:

• Junior step-ups missed — birthday rises and the 20-year-old six-month step to the full adult rate.
• Level 1 for higher-level work — keyholding, opening/closing, running a department or regularly supervising others is Level 3–4 territory.
• Weekend penalties absorbed — a flat rate covering Saturday and Sunday shifts has to actually beat the penalty mix for your roster.
• Unpaid time — till counts, close-downs, bag checks and stocktake after the doors shut are work time, and short casual shifts must meet the award's three-hour minimum.

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.