Nine Entertainment Pay Rates 2026: EA Bands & Award Floor

Nine Entertainment runs free-to-air television, streaming, radio and digital publishing in Australia, and also holds a majority stake in the Domain real estate listings business and owns the Fairfax mastheads including the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Its workforce spans on-air, production and broadcast technical staff, journalists and editorial staff, and digital and corporate roles, with a meaningful share of casual employment typical of media production.

The Broadcasting, Recorded Entertainment and Cinemas Award 2020 sets the floor for production, technical and on-air roles at Nine. Journalists and editorial staff instead sit on the Journalists Published Media Award 2020, which has its own separate pay scale. Nine has registered enterprise agreements covering parts of its production workforce — listed below where our corpus holds them — and each must leave employees better off overall than the relevant award.

The federal awards relevant to Nine Entertainment roles:

• Broadcasting, Recorded Entertainment and Cinemas Award 2020 (MA000091)

Workforce snapshot. In the 2024-25 Workplace Gender Equality Agency reports, Nine Entertainment Co. Pty Ltd reported 3,234 employees (part of the Nine Entertainment Co. Holdings Limited group, 5,876 employees in total, 15.9% casual and 47.2% women). Source: WGEA 2025 Public Data File, data.gov.au (CC-BY 3.0 AU).

The broadcasting stream of the Broadcasting, Recorded Entertainment and Cinemas Award 2020 (MA000091) sets these adult minimums:

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 Nine Entertainment. 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 Nine Entertainment, it beats the award figures above.

The patterns worth checking on a Nine Entertainment payslip:

• Agreement pay grades not applied after a transfer of business or franchise change.
• Rostering and shift-change penalties under the agreement missed on short-notice changes.
• Unpaid sign-on, handover and travel at the start and end of shifts.
• Allowances (meal, travel, relieving) dropped when payroll systems change.

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.