Wilson Security Pay Rates 2026: Guard, Site & Shift Pay

Wilson Security is one of the largest security contractors in the country, part of the Wilson Group alongside Wilson Parking and Wilson Health. It guards shopping centres, government buildings, hospitals, ports and corporate sites, and provides mobile patrols, concierge and control-room services with a workforce of licensed security officers on rotating shifts.

Wilson Security officers are covered by the Security Services Industry Award 2020, with Wilson enterprise agreements at various sites (below). The award ladder below is the floor; the award's shift, weekend and overtime loadings are where a security roster's pay is made or lost.

The federal awards relevant to Wilson Security roles:

• Security Services Industry Award 2020 (MA000016)

Workforce snapshot. In the 2024-25 Workplace Gender Equality Agency reports, Wilson Security Pty Ltd reported 6,174 employees (part of the Wilson Parking Australia 1992 Pty Ltd group, 7,392 employees in total, 31.6% casual and 17.6% women). Source: WGEA 2025 Public Data File, data.gov.au (CC-BY 3.0 AU).

The Security Services Industry Award 2020 (MA000016) adult minimums are:

Night shift, weekend and overtime loadings are where a security roster's pay is made: the award's own worked examples put a Level 1 casual Saturday at 175% and Sunday at 225% of the base rate. Check a specific roster with the penalty rates calculator.

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 Wilson Security agreements in our corpus (4 in total):

• Wilson Security Victoria State Government Safeguard Agreement 2025 — approved May 2026, nominal expiry 21 May 2030.
• Wilson Security RTBU & TWU WA - Public Transport Authority (PTA) Contract Enterprise Agreement 2025 — approved July 2025, nominal expiry 11 July 2028.
• Wilson Security Court Custody Services Enterprise Agreement 2026 — approved March 2026, nominal expiry 30 June 2028.
• Wilson Security Melbourne Airport Enterprise Agreement 2024 — approved March 2024, nominal expiry 20 March 2026.

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.

General award-compliance issues that come up across the security sector. This is a checklist for your own payslip, not a finding about Wilson Security:

• Level 1 for control-room, senior or supervisory work.
• Night, weekend and overtime loadings absorbed into a flat rate that doesn't beat the award for the roster.
• Unpaid handover, briefing and travel between sites.
• Long shifts without the award's overtime and rest-break rules.

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.