Kmart Pay Rates 2026 — Hourly Wage by Age & Level

Which agreement sets Kmart pay

Kmart department store staff are paid under the Kmart National Agreement 2024 (AG2024/3872, AE526796). It covers team members in Kmart retail stores nationally, including Certificate II and III retail trainees, and replaces the Retail Award for them. Salaried managers are excluded. Target stores are a separate employer with their own agreement.

• Approved by the Fair Work Commission: 18 November 2024 ([2024] FWCA 4020), operating from 10 March 2025
• Nominal expiry date: 17 November 2028
• Employer: Kmart Australia Limited

Next scheduled increase: First full pay period on or after 1 July 2027. The base rate becomes the July 2027 Retail Award rate for the equivalent level plus 20 cents an hour (plus 25 cents from July 2028). The dollar figure is set once the 2027 Annual Wage Review is decided.

For the underlying award minimums across every employer in the industry, see Retail Award rates 2026.

Kmart hourly pay rates by level (adults)

Base hourly rates before tax for adult employees. Casual rates include the 25% casual loading, paid instead of leave entitlements.

Kmart pay rates by age (junior rates)

Junior employees are paid a set percentage of the adult Retail Assistant rate for their age. Kmart pays the adult rate from 20. Junior rates apply only to Retail Assistants and Trolley Collectors; under-20s in clerical or supervisor roles get the adult rate (cl 8.2.2). The agreement guarantees juniors the highest of three measures, and in 2026 that is the award percentage applied to the Kmart adult rate.

The percentages are the instrument’s own. The dollar figures are our arithmetic — the percentage applied to the adult Retail Assistant rate, rounded to the cent — because the instrument does not print junior dollars. Your payslip may differ by a cent.

For how junior rates work across every award, and when you move to the adult rate, see junior pay rates in Australia.

Kmart penalty rates: evenings, weekends and public holidays

Penalty rates are a percentage of the base hourly rate for your level (or, where stated, a flat amount per hour) for hours worked at the times below.

• Outside Monday to Friday 7am–6pm, Kmart pays the Retail Award rate for the hour plus 1 cent — not a percentage of the Kmart base rate. For an adult Retail Assistant that is $34.77 on a Saturday ($41.73 casual), $41.73 on a Sunday ($48.68 casual) and $62.58 on a public holiday ($69.54 casual).
• Casual penalty rates already include the 25% loading.
• Night shifts starting from 11pm and before 5am are paid for the whole shift at the award night shift rate plus 1c: 130% Monday to Friday, 150% Saturday, 175% Sunday (casual 155%, 175%, 200%).
• Less than a 12-hour break between shifts is paid at 200% (casual 225%) until you get one (cl 15.6). The public holiday minimum payment is 3 hours.

Overtime

To price a mix of weekday, weekend and overtime hours, use the overtime and penalty rate calculator.

How much Kmart pays a week

Gross weekly pay for an adult at Retail Assistant, with every hour at the ordinary weekday rate. Weekend and evening shifts push these figures up; tax comes off them.

A full-time year (38 hours × 52 weeks) at $27.96 is $55,249 before tax. See take-home pay on $55,000 (the nearest salary we publish) and $27.97 an hour as a yearly salary (the nearest hourly rate we publish).

Enter your hourly rate and hours in the weekly pay calculator to see tax withheld and what lands in your account. Casual or part-time with a second job? Check the second job tax calculator.

What this page does not show

We publish only what we could read from a primary source. Left off rather than estimated:

• Saved rates for long-serving staff from the 2018 agreement (Appendix E).
• Target pay — Target Australia has its own agreement (AE519106); not covered on this page.

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