Veolia Pay Rates 2026: Driver, Runner & Depot Pay

Veolia runs waste collection, recycling and resource-recovery operations across Australia, alongside water and wastewater treatment contracts, with sites and depots in most states. Its workforce covers truck drivers and waste-collection crews, recycling and materials-recovery facility operators, water-treatment plant staff, and maintenance trades.

The Waste Management Award 2020 sets the floor for collection, recycling and resource-recovery roles. Veolia has registered an unusually large number of site-specific enterprise agreements across its waste, recycling and water operations — listed below where our corpus holds them — and each must leave employees better off overall than the award.

The federal awards relevant to Veolia roles:

• Waste Management Award 2020 (MA000043)

Workforce snapshot. In its 2024-25 report to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency, Veolia Environnement declared 5,848 employees across 6 reporting entities — 11.5% casual and 20.7% women. Source: WGEA 2025 Public Data File, data.gov.au (CC-BY 3.0 AU).

Collection drivers, runners and depot staff sit on the Waste Management Award 2020 (MA000043):

Early starts, weekend collection runs and public holidays carry the award's loadings on top; depot agreements typically pay above the ladder.

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 Veolia agreements in our corpus (92 in total):

• Veolia Environmental Services (Australia) Pty Ltd Murrin Murrin Enterprise Agreement 2025 — approved October 2025, nominal expiry 7 October 2029.
• Veolia Environmental Services Australia Pty. Ltd. Total Waste Management [Tasmania] Enterprise Agreement 2026 — approved July 2026, nominal expiry 29 July 2029.
• Veolia Victoria Regional Collection Services Agreement 2025 — approved February 2026, nominal expiry 30 June 2029.
• Veolia Victoria Metropolitan Collection Services Agreement 2025 — approved December 2025, nominal expiry 30 June 2029.
• Veolia Water Network Services Victoria Enterprise Agreement 2026 — approved August 2026, nominal expiry 1 June 2029.
• Veolia-ResourceCo Enterprise Agreement 2025 — approved May 2026, nominal expiry 18 May 2029.
• Veolia Water Operations Pty Ltd – Western Corridor Recycled Water Project Operator/Maintainer Enterprise Agreement 2026 — approved April 2026, nominal expiry 30 April 2029.
• Veolia Environmental Services (Australia) Pty Ltd – Townsville Industrial Services Enterprise Agreement 2025 — approved February 2026, nominal expiry 18 February 2029.

Plus 84 more — search "Veolia" in our agreements database.

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 Veolia payslip:

• Driving a bigger combination than your grade pays for — the grade follows the vehicle you're required to drive.
• Unpaid loading, waiting and pre-start time.
• Overtime and night loadings absorbed into a flat rate that doesn't beat the award for the roster.
• Contractor arrangements that look like employment — owner-drivers who are really employees.

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.