Virgin Australia

GROSS, fully taxable in Australia (marginal rates to 45% plus 2% Medicare levy). Contract currency AUD; converted at 1 USD = 1.4158 AUD, ECB reference rate of 10 August 2026. Single published figure, not a range: Virgin Australia Narrow Body Aircraft Pilots' EA 2024 (AE526842, decision [2024] FWCA 4071 of 21 November 2024, operative 23 December 2024, nominal expiry 30 June 2027), clause 24.1 Table 2, sets ONE Captain rate with no seniority increments: AUD 298,908.58 from the first full pay period after 1 July 2026. That is the final increment in the table, so min and max are the same number by design and no ceiling is being estimated. Table 2 is headed 'Annual Base Salary for B737 Pilots' and by clause 24.2 also covers any replacement aircraft of similar capacity. EXCLUDED and paid on top: employer superannuation at the superannuation guarantee rate (clause 28.1, drafted as 11.5% 'or the minimum provided by legislation', so 12% from 1 July 2025); credit hours above the Credit Hour Trigger, paid at the Productivity Rate, which clause 30.1 Table 5 sets at AUD 386.70 per hour for a Captain from the first full roster period after 1 July 2026; the Overnight and International Daily Travel Allowances (clauses 45 and 46); and payments for working on or infringing designated days off (clause 37). There is no retention payment in this agreement; the only lump sum is the one-off Sign On Bonus at clause 22 (Captain AUD 10,000), which was paid once at commencement in December 2024 and is not a recurring entitlement. No housing, schooling or transport allowance; nothing tax-free. SOURCING WARNING for anyone rechecking this: a copy of the agreement hosted outside the FWC register (on the AFAP content CDN) is an earlier bargaining draft with a materially different schedule, Captain AUD 285,574.49 and First Officer AUD 185,612.04 from 1 July 2026, a Retention Payment Scheme at its clause 30, and a Captain productivity rate of AUD 367.78. None of that survives into the approved instrument. AE526842 governs.

GROSS, fully taxable in Australia. Contract currency AUD; converted at 1 USD = 1.4158 AUD, ECB reference rate of 10 August 2026. Three-carrier row with a separate primary source for each, and the ranges genuinely overlap: the Jetstar span contains the other two entirely. Jetstar Airways EA 2026 (AE533389) Tables 2 and 4: Narrow Body FO AUD 147,234 (L1) to 171,818 (L4), Wide Body FO AUD 180,805 (L2) to 195,873 (L4), so AUD 147,234-195,873 overall (USD 103,994-138,348). Qantas EBA9 (AE528955) clause 27.3.3: B737/A320 FO AUD 173,332.49 (Yr 1) to 192,071.16 (Yr 5), USD 122,427-135,663. Virgin Australia (AE526842) Table 2: single B737 FO rate AUD 194,290.57, USD 137,230. Range shown is the union, which equals the Jetstar span. EXCLUDED and paid on top for all three: 12% employer superannuation, flying above the minimum guarantee, EFA, incentive payments, and travel allowances. No housing, schooling or transport allowance; nothing tax-free. Qantas FO steps up 1 September 2026 to AUD 178,532.46-197,833.29 (USD 126,100-139,733), which will lift the top of this band slightly.

GROSS, fully taxable in Australia (marginal rates to 45% plus 2% Medicare levy). Contract currency AUD; converted at 1 USD = 1.4158 AUD, ECB reference rate of 10 August 2026. Virgin Australia Narrow Body Aircraft Pilots' EA 2024 (AE526842, operative 23 December 2024, nominal expiry 30 June 2027) clause 24.1 Table 2 publishes named dollar rates for the check-and-training ranks, not just a loading: Training Captain AUD 328,799.43, Senior Training Captain AUD 337,766.69 (USD 238,569), Check Captain AUD 346,733.95, all from the first full pay period after 1 July 2026, the final increment in the table. Range is the floor and ceiling of those three published rates. Clause 31.1 explains the structure: the check-and-training loadings are INCLUDED in the annual base salary, at 10% of a Captain's base for Training Pilots, 13% for Senior Training Captains and 16% for Check Captains, which reconciles exactly against the Captain rate of AUD 298,908.58. Deliberately scoped to CAPTAIN-rank trainers so the band is coherent; the same table also publishes Training First Officer at AUD 224,181.43 (USD 158,343), which is a band B role and is not folded into this range. NOT merged with Qantas: Qantas short-haul sets Type Rated Examiner and Type Rated Instructor pay by formula rather than a dollar table (EBA9 clauses 22.1.8(c) and 22.4.6(c): 782 hours annually at the applicable hourly rate, plus 66 hours as a supervisory or TRI allowance, plus a 229-hour supplementary allowance, plus a bid-period top-up above 71:48), so no comparable published dollar figure exists and the two are not combined. EXCLUDED and paid on top: employer superannuation at the superannuation guarantee rate (clause 28.1, 12% from 1 July 2025); credit hours above the Credit Hour Trigger at the Productivity Rate, which clause 30.1 Table 5 sets from the first full roster period after 1 July 2026 at AUD 448.57 per hour for a Check Captain, AUD 436.97 for a Senior Training Captain and AUD 425.37 for a Training Captain; and the Overnight and International Daily Travel Allowances. This agreement contains no retention payment; the only lump sum is the one-off Sign On Bonus at clause 22, paid once at commencement in December 2024 (Check Captain AUD 11,600, Senior Training Captain AUD 11,300, Training Captain AUD 11,000). No housing, schooling or transport allowance; nothing tax-free.

GROSS and taxed in Australia. No housing, schooling or transport allowances. Contract currency AUD; USD/AUD 1.416444, FX date 10 August 2026. Source-to-carrier mapping: Regional Express Flight Attendants' Enterprise Agreement 2025-2029 (AE532441, cl 20.1): Trainee AUD 55,567.89 rising by year-of-service step to Year 10 AUD 69,724.19, all effective July 2026 (USD 39,231 to USD 49,225); Virgin Australia Regional Airlines Cabin Crew Agreement 2024 (AE525417, Table 3): CC1 AUD 56,246 to CC9 AUD 73,599 from the first full pay period on or after 20 May 2026 (USD 39,709 to USD 51,960). Row max is VARA CC9. NEITHER SCALE PUBLISHES A PURSER OR CABIN MANAGER SALARY GRADE: seniority is paid as an allowance, not a classification: Rex adds 8% for Line Training and 20% for Check and Training flight attendants (cl 20.2); VARA pays a Senior Allowance of AUD 39.24 per duty on A320 and AUD 22.89 per duty on F100 to the designated person in charge, plus Team Leader AUD 3,000 a year and Supervisory Line Checker up to AUD 10,000 a year (Tables 4 and 6). Do not read the top of this range as a purser rate. ANOMALY WORTH FLAGGING, NOT SMOOTHED: VARA's published Table 3 shows CC8 falling from AUD 67,829 (20 May 2025) to AUD 67,090 (20 May 2026). That is what the registered document says; I have not corrected it. Rex rates escalate 2% a year with a CPI catch-up to a 5% ceiling, and cl 20.5 provides that any CPI-driven uplift is published by internal memo and supersedes the printed table, so the Rex figures are a published floor that an unpublished memo may have raised.