Nando's Pay Rates 2026: Crew, Junior & Shift Supervisor Pay

Nando's runs a mix of company-owned and franchised peri-peri chicken restaurants across the country, employing front-of-house, grill and kitchen staff, delivery coordinators and restaurant managers. Most restaurant roles are casual or part-time, with a young workforce and a lot of evening and weekend trade.

Nando's restaurants are quick-service outlets, so crew are covered by the Fast Food Industry Award 2020; a full-service dine-in site can instead fall under the Restaurant Industry Award. Our corpus holds no federally registered Nando's enterprise agreement, so the fast food award ladder below is the rate to check.

The federal awards relevant to Nando's roles:

• Fast Food Industry Award 2020 (MA000003)

Workforce snapshot. In its 2024-25 report to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency, Nando's Australia Pty Ltd declared 2,821 employees — 0.9% casual and 53.9% women, with 205 in management roles. Source: WGEA 2025 Public Data File, data.gov.au (CC-BY 3.0 AU).

From 1 July 2026 the Fast Food Industry Award 2020 (MA000003) adult minimums are:

The award's evening, weekend and public holiday loadings apply on top — the fast food award's penalty structure changed in recent years, so check your exact shift with the penalty rates calculator rather than a remembered percentage.

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

• Under 16: $11.12/hr
• 16 years: $13.91/hr
• 17 years: $16.69/hr
• 18 years: $19.47/hr
• 19 years: $22.25/hr
• 20 years: $25.03/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.

As at 6 September 2026, our corpus of 14,141 federally registered enterprise agreements holds no current agreement for Nando's. 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 Nando's, it beats the award figures above.

The patterns worth checking on a Nando's payslip:

• Junior rate not stepping up on birthdays, or the adult rate not kicking in at 21.
• Unpaid opens and closes — set-up, clean-down and cash-up before or after the rostered shift are work time.
• Level 1 for shift-supervisor work — running a shift or being in charge of others is Level 2–3.
• Late-night and weekend loadings missing, especially on flat 'all-in' rates offered to casuals.

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.