Casual theatre employees rates

Consistent with ANU Enterprise Agreement, the Live Performance Award 2020 applies to staff employed at Llewellyn Hall and other School of Music venues.

Job code GTHT is used for all casual venues staff - to be paid on the earnings codes table, with the conditions set out below.

Live Performance Award (LPA) 2020

The ordinary hours of work for a casual staff member will be a minimum of 3 consecutive hours per day. Ordinary hours may be worked from Monday through to and including Sunday between the hours of 7.00am and 12 midnight.
A casual staff member who is required to work for more than 4 hours will be entitled to a minimum meal break of 30 minutes.

The appropriate rate for casual staff is calculated by dividing the rate per week set out in the award for the relevant classification level by 38 and adding 25 per cent loading on such hourly rates.
Casual employees are not paid per performance. Employees may be required to work on a number of performances during an engagement.

Where casual employees are required to work on the same day on at least 3 short performances (defined in the Award), and there is a break between any two of the short performances of at least 2 hours, they must be paid a minimum call for each such performance of 2 hours.

For all work performed on Sundays and public holidays a staff member must paid at double time with a minimum payment of 4 hours.
A casual staff member who works more than 8 hours per day will be paid overtime at the rate of time and a half for the first two hours and double time thereafter (Note: Casual staff are not eligible to be paid the 25% loading for overtime).

A casual employee who works more than 38 hours (excluding overtime worked and paid on a daily basis) in any one week will be paid for all hours in excess of 38, at the rate of time and a half for the first (4 hours and double time thereafter (Note: Casual staff are not eligible to be paid the 25% loading for overtime).

The following rates of pay are effective from 1 July 2023.

Rates of pay

Casual staff employed under the Live Performance Award 2020 are paid in accordance with the following table:

Code	Classification	%	Rates - casual hourly effective 1 July 2023
H31	Level 1 - Trainee only	125	28.263
H45	Level 1 - Trainee only (150%)	150	33.915
H32	Level 1 - Trainee only (Sun, PH & night)	200	45.22

H33	Level 2 (Mon to Sat)	125	30.613
H46	Level 2 (150%)	150	36.735
H34	Level 2 (Sun, PH & night)	200	48.98

H35	Level 3 (Mon to Sat)	125	32.113
H47	Level 3 (150%)	150	38.535
H36	Level 3 (Sun, PH & night)	200	51.38

H37	Level 4 (Mon - Sat)	125	32.725
H48	Level 4 (150%)	150	39.27
H38	Level 4 (Sun, PH & night)	200	52.36

H39	Level 5 (Mon - Sat)	125	33.75
H49	Level 5 (150%)	150	40.50
H40	Level 5 (Sun, PH & night)	200	54.00

H41	Level 6 (Mon - Sat)	125	34.7875
H50	Level 6 (150%)	150	41.745
H42	Level 6 (Sun, PH & night)	200	55.66

H43	Level 8 (Mon - Sat)	125	37.013
	(Production & Support Staff Level 7)
H51	Level 8 (150%)	150	44.415
	(Production & Support Staff Level 7)
H44	Level 8 (Sun, PH & night)	200	59.22
	(Production & Support Staff Level 7)

H65	Level 10 (Mon - Sat)	125	38.288
	Theatre House Manager
	(Production & Support Staff Level 8)
H52	Level 10 (150%)	150	45.945
	Theatre House Manager
	(Production & Support Staff Level 8)
H66	Level 10 (Night shift)	200	61.26
	Theatre House Manager
	(Production & Support Staff Level 8)

H53	Theatre 12 (Mon-Sat)	125	40.83
	(Company dancer level 5)
H55	Theatre 12 (150%)	150	48.99
	(Company dancer level 5)
H54	Theatre 12 (Sun, PH & night)	200	65.38
	(Company dancer level 5)

H61	Recording allowance*		158.21

* Details of when a recording allowance may be payable can be found in clause 60.2 of the Live Performance Award 2020

Follow this link to access the full Live Performance Award 2020. For further information about the information set out on this page contact: Remuneration & Conditions Staff at:

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