Venture Templates AU

FIFO swing pay calculator

Work out estimated gross pay per swing, fortnight, month and year from your roster, hours and rate — plus a rough take-home using 2026–27 Australian resident tax rates. Everything runs in your browser; nothing is uploaded.

Estimates only. Not financial or tax advice. Figures are a simplified guide and will not match your payslip or tax return. Awards, allowances, penalty rates, deductions, salary sacrifice and your employer’s rules all change the result. Your contract and the ATO are the source of truth.

Your roster and rate

2/1 means two weeks on and one week off (14/7). Use Custom for any other pattern.
14 days on, 14 days off each cycle.
Hours up to this point are paid at the base rate. Leave blank if every hour is at the same rate.
For example 1.5 means time-and-a-half, 2 means double time.
Applied only to days on, not R&R days. Leave at 0 if you have none.
The Super Guarantee is 12% from 1 July 2025. This is usually paid by your employer on top of your wage, not taken from take-home.

Example figures are pre-filled so you can see how it works. Replace them with your own.

Your estimate

Rough take-home (2026–27)

How this estimate is worked out
  • A swing is the on-site block of your roster (the “days on”). Pay per swing is daily gross × days on.
  • A cycle is days on plus days off. Days on site per year = 365 × (days on ÷ cycle). A year is treated as 365 days; leap years are not modelled.
  • Fortnightly pay is the annual figure × 14 ÷ 365. Monthly pay is the annual figure ÷ 12.
  • If an overtime threshold is entered, hours up to that point each day are at the base rate; hours above it are at the base rate × the multiplier. Penalty rates, public holidays, night shifts, travel days and minimum engagements are not modelled.
  • The site or remote allowance, if entered, is added for each day on.
  • Income tax uses the 2026–27 Australian resident individual rates (Stage 3), assuming you are a resident for the full year and entitled to the full tax-free threshold. Taxable income is rounded down to the nearest dollar. No deductions, offsets, HELP/HECS, extra withholding or salary sacrifice are applied.
  • A flat 2% Medicare levy is applied to that taxable income. Low-income reductions, exemptions and the Medicare levy surcharge are not modelled.

Tax rates source: Australian Taxation Office, Tax rates – Australian resident (resident tax rates 2026–27; page last updated 13 August 2026; checked 16 November 2026). Those rates do not include the Medicare levy of 2%.

Plan the whole year, not just one swing

This calculator gives you a quick estimate. The paid spreadsheets map every swing, budget the pay, and pack the bag — in Australian dollars, for common FIFO rosters.

FIFO Roster Planner

A 12-month colour-coded swing calendar for 14/14, 8/6, 15/13, 2/1 and custom rosters, with days home vs away and upcoming fly-in dates.

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FIFO Pay Budget Planner

Track swing pay, allowances and bills in AUD so the money that comes in on swing covers the weeks you are at home.

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FIFO Roster + Pay Bundle

The roster planner and pay budget planner together, so the calendar and the budget line up.

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FIFO Packing & Swing Checklist

A reusable packing and pre-swing checklist so the fly-out rush is one less thing to think about.

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