Benefits of an apprenticeship with QBuild
Each fortnight, your take-home pay will include your base salary, plus your single fortnightly payment and any claimable allowances that you are entitled to.
Base salary range
Your base salary as a fulltime apprentice will range from $1,478.10 to $2,418.50 per fortnight (excluding superannuation).
Single fortnightly payment
The single fortnightly payment (SFP) is between $181.70 and $371.00 per fortnight and is dependent on your trade, work location, and age.
You may also be eligible to claim the following allowances in certain circumstances:
- distant work (meal and incidental)
- remote work
- site
- unpleasant conditions
- on-call
- divisional and district parities
- first-aid
- motor vehicle drawing trailers
- overtime meal
- working in the rain
- remote service delivery
- excess kilometres.
More information can be found in section 3.6 Allowances and payments in the QBuild Field Staff Certified Agreement 2022.
QBuild employees can access leave entitlements, including:
- annual holiday leave (including 17.5% leave loading)
- personal or compassionate leave
- parental leave
- long service leave
- community service leave.
As an apprentice, you will receive 12.75% plus an additional fortnightly contribution which is proportionately adjusted based on your apprenticeship year level.
Your standard working hours as a full-time QBuild apprentice are 8 hours 26 minutes per day.
These hours are typically worked over a 9-day fortnight, between 6am and 6pm, Monday to Friday.
Based on this, you'll also accrue 1 rostered day off (RDO) each fortnight.
You may be required to travel to worksites throughout your appointed region and other areas of Queensland.
Depending on the circumstances, you may be required for overnight stays for periods of up to 3 weeks.
You will be provided with uniforms, personal protective equipment (PPE), and tools for work.