Casual Pay Calculator

What is casual loading?

Casual employees are paid a higher hourly rate than permanent staff doing the same job. The extra amount is called casual loading, and it compensates for entitlements casuals do not receive, such as paid annual leave, sick leave and notice of termination. The loading is ordinary income, so it is taxed the same way as the rest of your pay.

How this calculator handles it

Enter your hourly rate as it appears on your payslip, with the loading already included, along with your usual hours per week. The calculator annualises your pay and applies the standard resident tax rates. Casual workers use the same tax brackets as everyone else; there is no separate casual tax rate.

Because casual hours often change from week to week, try a few different weekly hours to see the range your take-home pay could fall in.

The steady week you may not actually have

The calculator turns one typical week into a year, and casual work is famously not typical. If your hours swing, the annual figure is what the year would look like if the chosen week repeated, nothing more. Enter a realistic average week for a realistic year, or run a quiet week and a busy week separately to see the range you live between.

Rates beyond your base loaded rate sit outside this page. Overtime and penalty multipliers change specific shifts, not the shape of the estimate, and no leave lines appear here because casual pay does not accrue them; the loading in your rate is what stands in their place.

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