Palace Cinemas Pay Rates 2026: Cinema Crew, Casual & Junior Pay

Palace Cinemas is an independent cinema chain screening arthouse, foreign-language and mainstream film at boutique multiplexes in capital cities. Cinema teams cover candy bar and ticketing staff, projectionists and duty managers, with smaller sites often run by a compact core team.

Cinema roles at Palace Cinemas are covered by the Broadcasting, Recorded Entertainment and Cinemas Award 2020, which sets separate rates across candy bar, projection and management classifications. Our corpus holds no current Palace Cinemas enterprise agreement, so the award tables below are what should be on your payslip unless your contract or a newer agreement says otherwise.

The federal awards relevant to Palace Cinemas roles:

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

Cinema staff sit on the cinema stream of the Broadcasting, Recorded Entertainment and Cinemas Award 2020 (MA000091). The adult minimums are:

The cinema stream has its own junior percentages and its own evening, weekend and public holiday loadings — check a specific shift with the penalty rates calculator.

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 25 September 2026, our corpus of 14,141 federally registered enterprise agreements holds no current agreement for Palace Cinemas. 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 Palace Cinemas, it beats the award figures above.

The patterns worth checking on a Palace Cinemas payslip:

• Junior rates not stepping up on birthdays.
• Unpaid time — cleaning after the last session, cash-ups and briefings outside rostered hours.
• Late-night and weekend loadings missing from casual rates.
• Short shifts under the award's minimum engagement.

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.