The Australian rates inside every tool

10%. You must register once your GST turnover reaches $75,000 in any 12 months, or looks like it will in the next 12. The tools strip GST from your sales and let you claim it on costs if you tick "GST registered". Most salons lodge a quarterly BAS, due 28 October, 28 February, 28 April and 28 July. If a date lands on a weekend or public holiday you have until the next business day (28 February 2027 is a Sunday, so that one is due Monday 1 March 2027). A BAS agent gets about four extra weeks on every quarter except the December one.

National minimum wage $26.44 an hour. Most salon staff are on the Hair and Beauty Industry Award 2020: a qualified hairdresser or beautician with a Certificate III (Level 3) starts at $29.45 an hour, a Certificate IV beauty therapist (Level 4) at $30.00, a Certificate IV hairdresser (Level 5) at $30.89, and casuals get a 25% loading on top. There is no manager level: someone in charge of the salon for a full week gets their own level's rate plus a $55.96 a week manager's allowance. The tools start with the award rate for the role and let you type what you actually pay. Rates change from the first full pay period on or after 1 July each year.

Full-time and part-time staff earn 1.33× their ordinary rate on Saturdays, 2× on Sundays and 2.5× on a public holiday; a weekday evening past 9pm is overtime, not a penalty rate. Casuals earn 1.58×, 2.25× and 2.5× with their loading included, and 1.5× before 7am or after 9pm on a weekday and before 7am or after 6pm on a Saturday. Any tool that prices a roster uses these, and you can change them if your agreement differs.

Super guarantee 12% of qualifying earnings (ordinary hours pay, penalty rates, loadings and all commissions, but not overtime), on top of the wage. Since 1 July 2026 it must reach the fund within seven business days of each payday. Every wage in the tools includes it unless you switch it off. Sole traders don't have to pay their own, and the sole trader tools show what matching it would cost.

4 weeks of paid annual leave for full-time and part-time staff, with leave loading on top under the award: 17.5%, or the weekend penalty uplift they would have earned if that's higher. The tools use 17.5%. Casuals get none, and the 25% casual loading instead. The tools count leave as hours you pay for and don't get, which is why an hour of a stylist's time costs more than their hourly rate.

10 days of paid personal (sick and carer's) leave a year for full-time staff, pro rata for part-time. Public holidays depend on where you are: 13 a year in New South Wales, 14 in Victoria, 12 in Queensland, 13 in South Australia, 13 in Western Australia, 9 in Tasmania, 15 in the ACT and 13 in the Northern Territory, counting state-wide days only. Pick your state in a tool and it uses yours; with no state chosen it uses 13. A full-time or part-time employee who would normally work that day is paid their ordinary hours for a public holiday whether you open or not. Casuals aren't paid for a day they don't work.

A premium on wages, set by your state's scheme and your industry. New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and South Australia count the super you pay as wages too, so there the premium goes on the super as well; Western Australia, Tasmania, the ACT and the NT leave super out. Hairdressing and beauty is low risk, so the published industry rates run from about 1% to just under 3% of wages before GST, depending on your state. The tools start with 1.5% (or your state's industry rate once you pick a state) and let you type the figure from your own renewal notice. With no state picked, they count it on the super too.

Only once your total wages pass your state's threshold, from $1,000,000 a year in Victoria and Western Australia to $2,500,000 in the Northern Territory. Most salons are well under it, so the tools leave it off until you tick it on.

Nothing up to $18,200, then 15% to $45,000, 30% to $135,000, 37% to $190,000 and 45% above, plus the Medicare levy of 2% (for a single person, nothing up to $28,011 and phased in to $35,013), less the low income tax offset of up to $700. The second band drops to 14% on 1 July 2027. Used to estimate take-home for sole traders. Companies and trusts are taxed differently, so check with your accountant.

Once your return shows $4,000 or more of business and investment income (sales, rent, interest and dividends count) and a tax bill of $1,000 or more, the ATO asks you to prepay next year's tax quarterly, on your BAS or on a separate instalment notice if you're not registered for GST. The instalment amount is last year's tax plus a 5% uplift, or a rate on each quarter's income. The GST and Tax Set-Aside Calculator works both out.

The tools start with a blended in-salon rate of 1.5% and let you put in your own. Since 1 October 2026 you can't add a surcharge for paying by EFTPOS, Mastercard, Visa or American Express, so the fee has to live inside your prices. The Reserve Bank's rule doesn't cover buy now pay later, but Afterpay's merchant terms stop you surcharging it anyway, so treat its fee (about 6% plus $0.30) as a cost inside your prices too.