Sodexo FIFO Pay Rates 2026: Village, Catering & Remote Site Pay

Sodexo employs around 5,400 people in Australia, most of them on remote mining villages and offshore facilities — catering, housekeeping, utilities and village management crews working FIFO rosters. The main onshore deal is the Sodexo Remote Sites Onshore Enterprise Agreement 2024 (approved August 2024, nominal expiry 19 August 2028). Offshore crews are under the Sodexo Remote Sites Offshore and AWU Enterprise Agreement 2025 (approved July 2025, nominal expiry 2 July 2029).

The award underneath is the Hospitality Industry (General) Award 2020 (MA000009) — village catering and accommodation work is hospitality work in the award system. The agreements set the actual FIFO packages above that floor; the figures below are the minimum they must beat overall.

Adult minimums under the Hospitality Award for the roles Sodexo runs on site:

Source: Fair Work Commission modern awards pay database, rates operative from 1 July 2026. Level 1 sits exactly at the national minimum wage ($26.44) — experienced village all-rounders are usually Level 2 or 3 work, not Level 1.

Searches for "Sodexo FIFO salary" usually mean the annualised package on a 2-and-1 or similar roster. The award test isn't the headline number — it's whether the salary covers everything the award would have paid for the hours actually worked: 10-12 hour days, weekend penalties (Saturday 125%, Sunday 150% for permanents; 150%/175% for casuals), public holidays (225% permanent, 250% casual), overtime and any night loadings. A long swing generates a lot of penalty-rate hours.

The enterprise agreement builds this into its rostered rates and site allowances — which is exactly why you should read your agreement classification, not just your contract. If a flat salary prices out below award for your real roster, that's the line it has broken. Model your roster with our penalty rates calculator.

The recurring problems in remote-site hospitality pay:

• Classification squeeze — utility crews doing cook or supervision work while classified (and paid) as Level 1-2.
• All-in rates that don't add up — a flat hourly across a swing must still beat the award's weekday-plus-weekend mix for that roster.
• Unpaid pre- and post-shift time — kitchen setup, handover and deep-clean time counts.
• Missed higher duties — relieving the chef or village supervisor for days at a time should be paid at the higher classification.

Keep your roster records and six months of payslips, and price the gap with our back-pay calculator. Raise it in writing with your village or site manager; the UWU and AWU cover this sector. Unresolved, the Fair Work Ombudsman (13 13 94) recovers underpayments at no cost — up to six years back, which matters on FIFO money.