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Optus Employment Partnership Agreement 2022
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OPTUS AGREEMENT SALARIES 2025

Grade	Effective 1 July 2025 Minimum Rate
G14	126,770
G13	109,864
G12	 98,804
G11	 85,348
G10	 73,759
G9	 67,426
G8	 62,362
G7	 55,765
G6	 50,235

OPTUS RETAIL AGREEMENT 2023 - SALARIES 2025

Updated Minimum Pay Rates and Allowances - July 2025

This document sets out the new minimum rates of pay and allowances under the Optus Retail Agreement 2023 (Agreement) for July 2025.

Increases to minimum pay rates 1

In accordance with clause 13.1 of the Agreement, the minimum base salary set out in clause 11.1 are to be increased by the March 2024/25 CPI rate (2.4%).
The new minimum pay rates effective from the first full pay period on or after 1 July 2025 (i.e. 1 July 2025) will be as follows.

Job Classification		Minimum rates
				Base Salary (per annum) 	Hourly rate
Retail Consultant 		$55,022 			$27.85
Specialist Retail Consultant 	
including but not limited to:
 Concierge
 Business Consultant		$59,809 			$30.27
Assistant Store Manager 	$64,483 			$32.64

Store Managers

The new minimum pay rates effective from the first full pay period on or after 1 July 2025 will be as follows:

Job Classification 		Minimum rates (per annum)
Store Manager 1 		$ 84,078
Store Manager 2 		$ 91,889
Store Manager 3 		$100,036

1 Note, the tables in this document present the minimum rates required under the Optus Retail Agreement 2023 only. The actual rates that will be applied by Optus to employees covered by the Agreement may be higher.

Allowances

The below table sets out the rates to be applied effective at the start of the first full pay period on or
after 1 July 2025.
Clause 	Type of allowance 					Rate
16.1 	Higher duties (Retail Consultant performing duties
	of Specialist Retail Consultant) 			$2.42 per hour
17.1 	First Aid allowance 					$13.89 per week
17.2	Meal allowance  Overtime of more than 1 hour
	without 24 hours' notice or a meal being provided.
	Does not apply if employee could reasonably return
	home for a meal within the meal break			$23.59 per occasion
17.2 	Further meal allowance  Overtime exceeds 4 hours 	$21.39 per occasion
17.7 	Broken Hill allowance 					$1.20 per hour
22 	Laundry allowanc					$6.25 per week (full-time) or
								$1.25 per shift (part-time casual)

Schedule 2: Store Manager rates

The below table sets out the rates to be applied effective 1 July 2025:

Agreement clause 	Description 				Rate
Sch 2, clause
4.2 (a) and 5.2(a) 	SM Excess Hours Loading 		$2.00 per hour
Sch 2, clause
4.2 (b) and 5.2(b)	SM Overtime Payment (Mon  Sun) 		$59.40 per hour
			SM Overtime Payment (Public Holiday) 	$74.25 per hour

OPTUS SALARIES 2024

Optus 	Annual Base Salary
Grade


Increase     Start	     5.10%            7.0%   

(i) Engineering & Technical Services

Date	  30 Mar 22	  01 Jul 22	  01 Jul 23	  01 Jul24
14	$103,639.00	$108,924.59	$116,549.31  
13	$ 89,818.00	$ 94,398.72     $101,006.63  
12	$ 80,776.00     $ 84,895.58     $ 90,838.27   
11	$ 69,775.00     $ 73,333.53     $ 78,466.87   
10	$ 60,301.00     $ 63,376.35     $ 67,812.70   
 9	$ 55,123.00     $ 57,934.27     $ 61,989.67   
 8	$ 59,983.00     $ 53,583.13     $ 57,333.95   
 7	$ 45,590.00     $ 47,915.09     $ 51,269.15   
 6	$ 41,069.00     $ 43,163.52     $ 46,184.97   

(ii) Customer Service and General Support

Date	  30 Mar 22	  01 Jul 22	  01 Jul 23	  01 Jul24
13	$ 89,818.00	$ 94,398.72     $101,006.63   
12	$ 80,776.00     $ 84,895.58     $ 90,838.27   
11	$ 69,775.00     $ 73,333.53     $ 78,466.87   
10	$ 60,301.00     $ 63,376.35     $ 67,812.70   
 9	$ 55,123.00     $ 57,934.27     $ 61,989.67   
 8	$ 59,983.00     $ 53,583.13     $ 57,333.95   
 7	$ 45,590.00     $ 47,915.09     $ 51,269.15   
 6	$ 41,069.00     $ 43,163.52     $ 46,184.97   

(iii) Commission Based Sales

Date	  30 Mar 22	  01 Jul 22	  01 Jul 23	  01 Jul24
13	$ 89,818.00	$ 94,398.72     $101,006.63   
12	$ 80,776.00     $ 84,895.58     $ 90,838.27   
11	$ 69,775.00     $ 73,333.53     $ 78,466.87   
10	$ 60,301.00     $ 63,376.35     $ 67,812.70   
 9	$ 55,123.00     $ 57,934.27     $ 61,989.67

SALARY INCREASE

Optus agrees that the minimum rate for each classification will be increased at, 1 July 2022, 1 July 2023 and 1 July 2024 on the basis, as at April each year, of the most recent Headline Consumer Price Index as currently published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics for 2021/2022, 2022/2023 and 2023/2024 financial years respectively and each such change shall be deemed to be part of this Agreement.

CPI History

Jan-Mar 21    0.6%    1.1%
Apr-Jun 21    0.8%    3.0%
Jul-Sep 21    0.8%    3.0%
Oct-Dec 21    1.3%    3.5%
Jan-Mar 22    2.1%    5.1%	Optus Pay Mark
Apr-Jun 22    1.8%    6.1%
Jul-Sep 22    1.8%    7.3%
Oct-Dec 22    1.9%    7.8%	
Jan-Mar 23    1.4%    7.0%			Optus Pay Mark
Apr-Jun 23    0.8%    5.0%