Origin Energy Pay Rates 2026: EA Pay Levels & Award Floor

Origin Energy is an integrated energy company spanning electricity generation — including the Eraring power station — gas and LPG production and distribution, and household and business energy retailing. Its workforce covers power-station operators and maintenance trades, upstream gas and LPG staff, and a large retail and customer-service function, and is almost entirely permanent rather than casual.

The Electrical Power Industry Award 2020 is the floor for generation and network roles, such as at Eraring. Origin's retail and contact-centre staff may instead sit on the Contract Call Centres Award 2020 or the Clerks — Private Sector Award 2020 depending on which Origin entity employs them, so check the employer name on your payslip. Origin has registered a large number of site- and function-specific enterprise agreements — listed below where our corpus holds them — and each must leave employees better off overall than the relevant award.

The federal awards relevant to Origin Energy roles:

• Electrical Power Industry Award 2020 (MA000088)

Workforce snapshot. In its 2024-25 report to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency, Origin Energy Limited declared 5,540 employees across 6 reporting entities — 1.1% casual and 39.1% women. Source: WGEA 2025 Public Data File, data.gov.au (CC-BY 3.0 AU).

The Electrical Power Industry Award 2020 (MA000088) uses common pay levels across its operations, technical, administrative and professional streams:

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

Enterprise agreements set rates above the award, with their own classification structures and allowances. Current Origin Energy agreements in our corpus (22 in total):

• Origin Energy (LPG Victoria) Enterprise Agreement 2025 — approved January 2026, nominal expiry 19 January 2030.
• Origin Energy (LPG Gladstone, Maryborough, Gympie, Mackay and Yeppoon) Enterprise Agreement 2025 — approved October 2025, nominal expiry 24 October 2029.
• Origin Energy (LPG Gladstone, Maryborough, Gympie, Mackay and Yeppoon) Enterprise Agreement 2025 — approved October 2025, nominal expiry 24 October 2029.
• Origin Energy (LPG Darling Downs) Enterprise Agreement 2025 — approved October 2025, nominal expiry 8 October 2029.
• Origin Energy (LPG NSW Metro Bulk) Enterprise Agreement 2025 — approved January 2025, nominal expiry 29 January 2029.
• Origin Energy Eraring Services Enterprise Agreement 2025 — approved June 2025, nominal expiry 31 December 2028.
• ORIGIN ENERGY (DARLING DOWNS POWER STATION) ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2025 — approved September 2025, nominal expiry 1 September 2028.
• Origin Energy (National Response Centre) Enterprise Agreement 2025 — approved November 2025, nominal expiry 31 August 2028.

Plus 14 more — search "Origin Energy" in our agreements database.

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 Origin Energy payslip:

• Agreement pay levels not stepping up with qualifications and competencies.
• On-call, call-out and standby allowances missed or under-paid.
• Travel time to remote sites unpaid.
• Overtime during storm and outage response paid at the wrong rate.

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.