Teys Australia Pay Rates 2026: Boner, Packer & Plant Pay

Teys Australia processes beef through a network of abattoirs and processing plants across Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia, run as a joint venture between the Teys family and global meat processor JBS. Its workforce is concentrated in slaughter-floor, boning-room and processing roles, along with maintenance trades and engineering staff, and is male-dominated as is typical of meat processing.

The Meat Industry Award 2020 sets the floor for processing and slaughter-floor roles. Our corpus holds no current registered Teys Australia enterprise agreement, so the award tables below are what should be on the payslip.

The federal awards relevant to Teys Australia roles:

• Meat Industry Award 2020 (MA000059)

Workforce snapshot. In its 2024-25 report to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency, Teys Australia Pty Ltd declared 3,450 employees across 8 reporting entities — 5.9% casual and 29.2% women. Source: WGEA 2025 Public Data File, data.gov.au (CC-BY 3.0 AU).

The Meat Industry Award 2020 (MA000059) adult minimums are:

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 Teys Australia. 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 Teys Australia, it beats the award figures above.

The patterns worth checking on a Teys Australia payslip:

• Wrong MI level for the skill actually used — trained boners and slicers paid as labourers.
• Unpaid knife-sharpening, PPE and clean-down time.
• Tally and piece-rate systems that fall below the award for the hours worked.
• Visa workers paid below the plant agreement — the same rates apply regardless of visa status.

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.