Edmund Rice Education Australia Pay Rates 2026: Teacher & School Staff Pay

Edmund Rice Education Australia (EREA) is the national body for schools in the Edmund Rice/Christian Brothers tradition, including well-known Brisbane schools such as St Joseph's Nudgee College and St Joseph's College, Gregory Terrace, alongside campuses in other states. It employs teachers across primary and secondary years and a general staff workforce.

Teachers sit on the Educational Services (Teachers) Award 2020, and general staff sit on the Educational Services (Schools) General Staff Award 2020. Our corpus holds no current EREA enterprise agreement, which means the award tables below are what should be on the payslip; where an individual school bargains its own agreement, it must leave staff better off than these award figures overall.

The federal awards relevant to Edmund Rice Education Australia (EREA) 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, Trustees Of Edmund Rice Education Australia declared 7,880 employees across 32 reporting entities — 16.4% casual and 51.3% women. 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.

As at 22 September 2026, our corpus of 14,141 federally registered enterprise agreements holds no current agreement for Edmund Rice Education Australia (EREA). That usually means one of three things: the employer pays on the award (or on individual contracts above it), the agreement covering you is registered under a different entity name (check the employer name on your payslip and search our agreements database), or — for state public-sector employers — pay is set by a state award or agreement outside the federal register. If you have a copy of an agreement that names Edmund Rice Education Australia (EREA), it beats the award figures above.

The patterns worth checking on a Edmund Rice Education Australia (EREA) 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.