Roy Hill Pay Rates 2026: FIFO, Site & Award Floor Pay

Roy Hill operates a large iron ore mine and integrated rail and port operation in Western Australia's Pilbara region, part of the Hancock Prospecting group, employing operators, tradespeople, and rail and port staff on FIFO and residential rosters.

The Mining Industry Award 2020 is the floor for mine-site roles. Our corpus holds no current registered Roy Hill enterprise agreement, so the award tables below are what should be on the payslip for any role not covered by an agreement outside our corpus.

The federal awards relevant to Roy Hill roles:

• Mining Industry Award 2020 (MA000011)

Workforce snapshot. In the 2024-25 Workplace Gender Equality Agency reports, Roy Hill Holdings Pty Ltd, Roy Hill Operations Pty Ltd reported 3,521 employees (part of the Hancock Prospecting Pty Limited group, 5,035 employees in total, 8.7% casual and 31.4% women). Source: WGEA 2025 Public Data File, data.gov.au (CC-BY 3.0 AU).

The Mining Industry Award 2020 (MA000011) publishes each grade two ways: the base weekly rate (÷38 = hourly) and an 'ordinary hourly' rate that folds in the award's all-purpose industry allowance. Both are shown:

Coal mines sit on the Black Coal Mining Industry Award instead, which uses a 35-hour week — our BHP pay rates page explains the difference. FIFO rosters add the award's overtime, shift and weekend loadings on top of these figures.

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 Roy Hill. 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 Roy Hill, it beats the award figures above.

The patterns worth checking on a Roy Hill payslip:

• FIFO roster averaging that quietly loses overtime or public holiday loadings.
• Wrong level for the competency actually held.
• Labour-hire workers paid below the site's directly employed crew for the same work — the same-job-same-pay rules now apply.
• Travel and standby time unpaid.

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.