Qantas

GROSS, and fully taxable in Australia (marginal rates to 45% plus 2% Medicare levy). Contract currency AUD; converted at 1 USD = 1.4158 AUD, ECB reference rate of 10 August 2026. Two-carrier row with a primary source for each and genuinely overlapping ranges: Qantas Airways Ltd Pilots (Short Haul) EA 2024 (EBA9), AE528955 clause 27.2.3, gives Captain AUD 262,624.99 (Year 1) to AUD 298,292.33 (Year 6); Jetstar Airways Pilots' EA 2026, AE533389 Table 1, gives Narrow Body Captain AUD 264,335 (Level 1) to AUD 280,433 (Levels 3-4), which sits wholly inside the Qantas span. Range shown is the union of the two. These are annual base salaries against a minimum guarantee of 60 flying hours per 28-day bid period (Qantas); flying above that guarantee is paid on top at the applicable hourly rate and is EXCLUDED here. Also EXCLUDED and paid on top: employer superannuation at 12% (superannuation guarantee, ATO), Jetstar's Extra Flying Allowance (EFA), the Qantas Company Incentive Payment (bonus rate 6% multiplied by the executive MIP scorecard outcome, clause 27.7.3), and daily travelling allowance. Unlike Gulf packages there is NO housing, schooling or transport allowance in or around these figures, and nothing is tax-free. STALENESS FLAG: the Qantas table steps up on 1 September 2026 to AUD 270,503.73-307,241.10 (USD 191,061-217,009), roughly three weeks after this figure was compiled.

GROSS, fully taxable in Australia. Contract currency AUD; converted at 1 USD = 1.4158 AUD, ECB reference rate of 10 August 2026. Three-carrier row with a separate primary source for each, and the ranges genuinely overlap: the Jetstar span contains the other two entirely. Jetstar Airways EA 2026 (AE533389) Tables 2 and 4: Narrow Body FO AUD 147,234 (L1) to 171,818 (L4), Wide Body FO AUD 180,805 (L2) to 195,873 (L4), so AUD 147,234-195,873 overall (USD 103,994-138,348). Qantas EBA9 (AE528955) clause 27.3.3: B737/A320 FO AUD 173,332.49 (Yr 1) to 192,071.16 (Yr 5), USD 122,427-135,663. Virgin Australia (AE526842) Table 2: single B737 FO rate AUD 194,290.57, USD 137,230. Range shown is the union, which equals the Jetstar span. EXCLUDED and paid on top for all three: 12% employer superannuation, flying above the minimum guarantee, EFA, incentive payments, and travel allowances. No housing, schooling or transport allowance; nothing tax-free. Qantas FO steps up 1 September 2026 to AUD 178,532.46-197,833.29 (USD 126,100-139,733), which will lift the top of this band slightly.

GROSS, fully taxable in Australia (marginal rates to 45% plus 2% Medicare levy). Contract currency AUD; converted at 1 USD = 1.4158 AUD, ECB reference rate of 10 August 2026. The underlying published figure is NOT annual: Qantas EBA9 (AE528955) clause 27.4.1 sets FOT pay at AUD 6,404.90 per twenty-eight day bid period from the first full pay period on or after 1 July 2026. Annualised at 13 bid periods that is AUD 83,263.70, or USD 58,810. Thirteen periods is the convention the AFAP itself uses for this grade: in its Form F18 objection to the agreement the AFAP annualises the then-current AUD 6,218.35 per period as 'effectively $80,838.55', which is exactly 13 times the period rate. A single figure is therefore reported rather than a range; there is no seniority scale at this grade. This is the pre-line-check pay grade for direct-hire First Officers who are already licensed professional pilots undergoing type training, not a cadet scheme. The AFAP's F18 states that the Air Pilots Award 2020 has no FOT classification at all and treats these pilots as Narrow Body Aircraft First Officers, for whom the award minimum is AUD 127,214.88, so the FOT rate sits AUD 46,376.33 below the award minimum for the same classification for the months before clearing to the line. Trade press reporting the AFAP adds that the grade also removes rostering rules, indemnity protections and loss-of-licence reimbursement relative to the First Officer scale; that particular claim is trade-press reporting of the union, not a primary document. On clearing to the line the pilot moves onto the First Officer scale at clause 27.3 (clauses 27.4.2 to 27.4.4). EXCLUDED: employer superannuation at the superannuation guarantee rate (12% from 1 July 2025) and travel allowances; FOTs are expressly ineligible for the Company Incentive Payment (clause 27.7.11). No housing, schooling or transport allowance; nothing tax-free. Published forward steps: AUD 6,597.04 per period (1 Jul 2027), 6,794.95 (1 Jul 2028).

GROSS and taxed in Australia. No housing, schooling or transport allowances; nothing resembling a Gulf expat package. Contract currency AUD, converted at USD/AUD 1.416444, FX date 10 August 2026 (open.er-api.com). Figures are clause 3.3 of EBA11 AS VARIED (variation approved 26 November 2024, [2024] FWCA 4143; consolidated text attached to [2024] FWCA 4324 of 5 December 2024), effective 16 June 2025: Trainee Flight Attendant AUD 64,798.00 (USD 45,747), Flight Attendant Entry AUD 69,068.17 (USD 48,762), Flight Attendant AUD 70,477.46 (USD 49,757). The variation lifted pay for QCCA employees and Qantas employees engaged on or after 17 December 2007 by roughly 30 percent from 1 November 2024 and gave nothing to the pre-2007 group; it also opened A350 ultra-long-range 'Project Sunrise' flying to these crew. Clause 3.3.3 still makes the annual salary inclusive of all payments and allowances except incidentals, ground and training duty allowance, higher duties and languages, and it absorbs shift, public holiday and annual leave loadings. Additional Hourly Pay above 225 hours per 56-day bid period (clause 3.5) is extra and is NOT in these figures; the varied clause 4.3 single-time hourly rates run AUD 41.5372 (trainee) to AUD 45.1779 (flight attendant) from 16 June 2025, but the agreement fixes no annual AHP total and none is estimated here. SEPARATE CLOSED TIER, quoted not merged: Qantas employees engaged before 17 December 2007 receive a Flight Attendant Total Salary of AUD 96,545.71 (base AUD 51,646.65 plus supplementary payment AUD 44,899.06), about USD 68,161, at 16 June 2025 under clause 4.1 of Part B. Closed to new entrants. STALENESS: nominal expiry 29 March 2026 has passed; varied clause 3.2 bars any replacement increase before 16 June 2026, which is also now past, but no replacement agreement is registered with the Fair Work Commission as at 10 August 2026, so 16 June 2025 is the last published step. LONG HAUL ONLY: EBA11 consolidates and supersedes the International Division agreements (EBA8, EBA9, EBA10) and pools A330, A380 and B787 flying. It says nothing about Qantas short haul or domestic cabin crew, who sit under a separate agreement lineage.

GROSS and taxed in Australia. No housing, schooling or transport allowances. Contract currency AUD, converted at USD/AUD 1.416444, FX date 10 August 2026 (open.er-api.com). Figures are clause 3.3 of EBA11 AS VARIED (variation approved 26 November 2024, [2024] FWCA 4143; consolidated text attached to [2024] FWCA 4324), effective 16 June 2025: Customer Service Supervisor AUD 98,165.96 (USD 69,305); Customer Service Manager AUD 122,821.82 (USD 86,711). The CSM is the person in charge of the cabin; the CSS is the intermediate supervisory grade who works in and supervises the economy cabin and covers CSM functions in the CSM's absence. Salary is all-inclusive under clause 3.3.3 with the four exceptions (incidentals, ground and training duty allowance, higher duties, languages) and absorbs shift, public holiday and annual leave loadings. Additional Hourly Pay above 225 hours per 56-day bid period is extra and is not included; varied clause 4.3 gives single-time hourly rates of AUD 62.9269 (CSS) and AUD 78.7319 (CSM) from 16 June 2025, but no annual AHP total is published and none is estimated. SEPARATE CLOSED TIER, quoted not merged: Qantas employees engaged before 17 December 2007 receive, under varied clause 4.1 of Part B at 16 June 2025, Customer Service Supervisor Total Salary AUD 110,498.74 (USD 78,011) and Customer Service Manager Total Salary AUD 127,032.80 (USD 89,684). Closed to new entrants, and the 2024 variation gave this group no increase, so the gap to the open tier has narrowed sharply. STALENESS: nominal expiry 29 March 2026 has passed; varied clause 3.2 bars a replacement increase before 16 June 2026, now also past, but no replacement agreement is registered with the Fair Work Commission as at 10 August 2026. LONG HAUL ONLY: nothing here describes Qantas short haul or domestic cabin managers.

Gross, taxable Australian income. Contract currency AUD. Appendix B Table 1 of EA 11, rates effective first pay period on or after 1 January 2025: renumbered Level 1 A$1,788.59/week to Level 14 A$3,413.06/week, annualised at 52 weeks (A$93,007 to A$177,479). Base wage ONLY: excludes shift penalties, overtime, and the supervisory allowances published in Table 2 (Senior LAME 1 A$110.72/week, Senior LAME 2 A$153.35/week, DMM/DTM/STS/CC A$417.41/week at 1 January 2025), and excludes superannuation, which is paid on top. Level 1 is the LAME entry grade after the January 2023 renumbering removed five redundant entry levels; Level 14 is the published top of the scale, not an extrapolation. STALENESS: 1 January 2025 is the last column in the agreement. EA 11 passed its nominal expiry on 31 December 2025 and ALAEA opened EA 12 negotiations in 2025; I could not confirm whether a successor agreement has since been approved, so these rates may be superseded. Local Australian terms: no housing, schooling or transport allowance and no tax-free status, so this is not comparable to a Gulf package of the same headline number. Converted at USD/AUD 1.4158, ECB reference rate 10 August 2026.

Gross, taxable Australian income. Contract currency AUD. Appendix A Table 1A (Aircraft Maintenance Engineers, trades stream), rates for the first full pay period on or after 1 July 2026: Trades 8 A$1,287.74/week to Trades 17 A$1,950.14/week, annualised at 52 weeks (A$66,962 to A$101,407). These are the trades-qualified but unlicensed maintenance staff; licence holders sit under the separate ALAEA agreement and are the row above. Rates already absorb the tool allowance (rolled in from January 2013) and the 5% training allowance (absorbed from 1 July 2024). Excludes shift penalties, overtime and superannuation, which are on top. The agreement also publishes 1 July 2027 rates (Trades 8 A$1,326.38, Trades 17 A$2,008.64/week), so the scale is dated and forward-published, not estimated. Local Australian terms: taxed, no housing/schooling/transport allowances, unlike tax-free Gulf packages. Converted at USD/AUD 1.4158, ECB reference rate 10 August 2026.

Gross, taxable Australian income. Contract currency AUD. Schedule 3.1 Table 1 of ASU Agreement 13, annual rates for the first full pay period on or after 1 July 2026: Level 3 increment 1 A$61,608 to Level 8 increment 4 A$92,442. Levels 1 and 2 still exist in the structure but are paid at Level 3 rates from agreement commencement, so A$61,608 is the effective entry salary. Scope caveat: this is the Qantas mainline 'Airline Officer' scale covering airport, operations and support streams. Ramp and baggage handling at Qantas mainline is largely performed by third-party ground handlers under separate agreements and is NOT covered by these figures. Load Control Officers who hold and use the qualification receive a separate allowance of A$1,524.42/year from 1 July 2026 (Schedule 4). Excludes shift penalties, overtime and superannuation, which are on top. Local Australian terms: taxed, no housing/schooling/transport allowances. Converted at USD/AUD 1.4158, ECB reference rate 10 August 2026.

Gross, taxable Australian income. Contract currency AUD. Schedule 3.1 Table 1, Level 9 increments 1 to 4, first full pay period on or after 1 July 2026: A$92,687 to A$97,510. Title mapping is inferred, and this is why confidence is moderate: the agreement does not use the words 'duty manager'. Level 9 in the Airports stream is defined in Schedule 1 as managing a work function across single or multiple terminals including after-hours responsibility for the whole airport, supervising coordination of Qantas and client airline aircraft movements and loading for on-time departure, and portfolio responsibilities. That is duty-manager work, but a Qantas role carrying that job title could sit elsewhere. Above Level 9 the same agreement publishes Senior Professional ranges (shiftworkers, without 20th day grossed up: SP1 A$97,976 min at 1 July 2026; dayworkers SP2 max A$135,248), which are managerial/specialist grades not tied specifically to airport duty management. Excludes shift penalties, overtime and superannuation, which are on top. Local Australian terms: taxed, no housing/schooling/transport allowances. Converted at USD/AUD 1.4158, ECB reference rate 10 August 2026.

Gross, taxable Australian income. Contract currency AUD. Same scale and same figures as the Qantas airport duty manager row because both roles sit at Level 9 of one classification structure: Schedule 3.1 Table 1, Level 9 increments 1 to 4, A$92,687 to A$97,510 for the first full pay period on or after 1 July 2026. Schedule 1 lists the Level 9 Sales and Marketing typical duties as monitoring and allocating passenger inventory using the yield management system to maximise route revenue, forecasting demand from historical booking data, revising control parameters and analysing flight data. Confidence is moderate because the mapping comes from duty descriptors rather than a job title, and because senior revenue-management and network-planning roles at Qantas are likely to sit above this agreement in Senior Professional or award-free management bands that publish no rates. NETWORK PLANNING is not covered: I found no published scale for it and it is not described at Level 9. Excludes shift penalties, overtime and superannuation, which are on top. Local Australian terms: taxed, no housing/schooling/transport allowances, so not comparable to a tax-free Gulf package. Converted at USD/AUD 1.4158, ECB reference rate 10 August 2026.