A wrong classification is where back-pay starts. Place any role in minutes, see what it truly costs once penalties and casual loading are in, and catch the traps that bite. Live from the Fair Work pay database.
Five award placement tools, each built on its own award's terms, not a generic calculator.
Tick what the role does, mark the principal duties, and the tool places it at the correct level with a clear, borderline or refer flag and a printable evidence trail.
Base rates feed live from the Fair Work Modern Awards Pay Database, so they update themselves each July. No stale spreadsheet to maintain.
A penalty card for permanent and casual: evening and night, Saturday, Sunday, public holiday and overtime, worked out on the real award multipliers.
Each tool carries the operational traps for its award, the ones that cause back-pay beyond the classification itself. The things people miss until an audit finds them.
Manufacturing, Clerks, Construction, Hospitality and Retail today, with more added over time at no extra cost while you subscribe.
Every placement prints to a one-page record you can drop into a file, a review or a pay decision. It shows the duties, the reasoning and the source.
Three steps, a couple of minutes a role.
Choose the award, then the stream where the role sits. Enter the basics.
Tick every task the role performs, then mark the core duties that define it.
The tool returns the level, the live rate, the penalty card and the compliance traps, ready to print.
One plan, full access to every tool. Cancel whenever you like.
I am Ryan Carrington. I have spent 25 years in human resources and industrial relations across mining, construction and manufacturing, doing the classification, the enterprise agreements and the pay decisions that these tools help with.
I built these because getting a role to the right level is fiddly, high-stakes work that most people do under time pressure with a PDF open in another tab. The tools put the award's own logic in front of you and keep the rates current, so the answer is defensible and the record is there.
This is decision support, not legal advice. Where a placement is genuinely contested, the tool says so and tells you to get a second look rather than pretending to be certain.
They pull live from the Fair Work Modern Awards Pay Database every time you use a tool, so they reflect the current operative rates, including the annual July increase, without you doing anything.
Manufacturing, Clerks, Construction, Hospitality and Retail today. More of the high-volume awards are added over time, and they are included while you subscribe.
No, and this matters. First confirm the role is even covered by the award, and whether the employer is in the state or federal system, and whether an enterprise agreement applies instead. The tools place a role once you know the right award. If you are not sure which award covers you, check that before relying on a placement.
No. It is decision support to help you classify and pay correctly and to keep a record of your reasoning. For a contested or high-risk case, get advice.
Yes. Monthly cancels anytime and runs to the end of the paid month. Annual runs for the year you paid for.
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