Mission Australia Pay Rates 2026: Support Worker & SCHADS Pay

Mission Australia is a national Christian charity running homelessness, housing, family and community services, alcohol and drug programs, and employment services across the country. Its workforce of case managers, support workers, counsellors and program staff is predominantly permanent rather than casual.

Support and community services roles at Mission Australia are covered by the Social, Community, Home Care and Disability Services Industry Award 2010 (SCHADS), where pay is set by a matrix of stream, level and pay point. Mission Australia has a registered enterprise agreement for its service delivery workforce (listed below where our corpus holds it); it must leave employees better off overall than these award figures.

The federal awards relevant to Mission Australia roles:

• Social, Community, Home Care and Disability Services Industry Award 2010 (MA000100)

Workforce snapshot. In its 2024-25 report to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency, Mission Australia declared 2,565 employees — 8.8% casual and 73.8% women. Source: WGEA 2025 Public Data File, data.gov.au (CC-BY 3.0 AU).

The SCHADS award pays by stream (social and community services, home care, disability, crisis accommodation), then classification level, then pay point — so there is no single "disability support worker rate". Our SCHADS pay rates page carries the full current pay-point matrix, verified against the Fair Work Commission's pay database, plus the sleepover, broken-shift and minimum-engagement rules that decide most disability pay disputes.

Enterprise agreements set rates above the award, with their own classification structures and allowances. Current Mission Australia agreements in our corpus (1 in total):

• Mission Australia Service Delivery Enterprise Agreement 2024 — approved November 2024, nominal expiry 30 July 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 Mission Australia payslip:

• Wrong SCHADS level or pay point for qualifications and years of service.
• Sleepover and active-night shifts paid as if they were the same thing.
• Broken shifts without the allowance, and travel between clients unpaid.
• Minimum engagements ignored on short support shifts.

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.