Seven West Media Pay Rates 2026: EA Bands & Award Floor

Seven West Media runs the Seven television network and its regional affiliates, alongside The West Australian and other WA-based newspaper mastheads. Its workforce spans on-air, production and broadcast technical staff and journalists and editorial staff at its newspaper titles, with a sizeable share of casual employment reflecting the shift-based nature of broadcast production.

The Broadcasting, Recorded Entertainment and Cinemas Award 2020 is the floor for production, technical and on-air roles. Journalists and editorial staff at Seven's newspaper titles instead sit on the Journalists Published Media Award 2020. Seven has registered at least one enterprise agreement covering part of its production workforce — shown below where it applies — which must leave employees better off overall than the relevant award.

The federal awards relevant to Seven West Media roles:

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

Workforce snapshot. In its 2024-25 report to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency, Seven West Media Limited declared 3,100 employees across 4 reporting entities — 23.5% casual and 47.7% 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.

Enterprise agreements set rates above the award, with their own classification structures and allowances. Current Seven West Media agreements in our corpus (1 in total):

• Seven Network (Operations) Limited Productions Enterprise Agreement 2025 — approved February 2026, nominal expiry 18 February 2029.

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 Seven West Media 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.