KFC Pay Rates 2026 — Hourly Wage by Age & Level

Which agreement sets KFC pay

Agreement

KFC National Enterprise Agreement 2020

Fair Work Commission IDs

AG2019/4042, AE507798

Approved

22 April 2020 ([2020] FWCA 2020), operating from 29 April 2020

Nominal expiry

29 April 2024 (passed — the agreement keeps operating until replaced or terminated)

Employer

Kentucky Fried Chicken Pty Limited, its subsidiaries, and the franchisees named in the agreement when it was approved

Rates on this page from

the first full pay period on or after 1 July 2026

Casual loading

25%

Checked against the source

24 September 2026

It covers Team Members (including delivery drivers) and Shift Supervisors at KFC's company restaurants and at the franchisees named in the agreement when the Fair Work Commission approved it (77 employers). Managers are excluded. A franchisee that was not named, or that has its own agreement, is not covered — its staff are paid under that agreement or the Fast Food Industry Award.

Next scheduled increase: First full pay period on or after 1 December 2026 (juniors aged 18 to 20). The Fast Food Award's junior phase-in lifts 18-, 19- and 20-year-olds with more than 6 months' service to 75%, 85% and 95% of the award rate ($20.86, $23.64 and $26.42 an hour). That is more than KFC's fixed 70%, 80% and 90%, and an agreement cannot pay a base rate below the award, so those staff must get at least the award figure. Adult rates next move with the 2027 Annual Wage Review, because KFC's rates are tied to the award.

Award floor: Fast Food Award rates 2026 (how agreements work).

KFC hourly pay rates by level (adults)

How the casual rate is worked out: the agreement's pay table (Table B) sets the casual rate at the Fast Food Award hourly rate plus 1 cent, plus the 25% loading — $34.78 for a Team Member — while permanent staff get the award weekly rate plus 0.5%. So the casual rate is not 25% on top of the $27.95 permanent rate. One clause (cl 5.4.2) could be read as 25% on top of the permanent rate ($34.94); the agreement's own printed 2020 casual figure follows the Table B method, so the table uses it.

Full-time at Team Member (Level 1): $55,229 a year before tax (38 hours × 52 weeks). See take-home pay on $55,000 (nearest we publish).

KFC pay rates by age (junior rates)

KFC's junior percentages (cl 6.1 Table A) apply to both classifications; the table shows Team Member. Casual juniors are paid at least the award rate plus 1 cent (Undertaking 3), which lifts ages 16 and 18 by a cent over the straight percentage.

Percentages are of the adult Team Member (Level 1) rate; the dollars are our arithmetic, rounded to the cent. Junior rates under other awards.

KFC penalty rates: evenings, weekends and public holidays

• Penalties are paid on the ordinary hourly rate for your level (cl 7.1); casual figures include the 25% loading, added rather than multiplied. They are the same percentages as the Fast Food Award.
• For a permanent Team Member ($27.95) that is $30.75 an hour from 10pm to midnight, $32.14 from midnight to 6am, $34.94 on a weekend and $62.89 on a public holiday — our arithmetic.

Overtime

How penalty rates work · overtime calculator

What this page does not show

• The list of franchisees covered — KFC's own 2024 court defence says the Schedule A published on the Commission's website is blank, while the approval decision names 77 employers.
• Whether Collins Foods' KFC restaurants in Queensland and northern NSW, which had their own 2014 agreement, now fall under this agreement.
• Salaried and trainee manager pay — managers are excluded from the agreement.

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