Sydney bus drivers wages   

Excellent Pay & Benefits for Bus Operators
Be part of the largest bus transport provider in Australia and with the backing of the NSW Government, you not only have a job for life, you will have a career path.
Excellent pay and benefits include.
Five weeks paid annual leave (shift workers) with 20% annual leave loading.
9% superannuation with option to salary sacrifice.
8 days sick leave a year, going up to 10 days sick leave after 5 years service and to
15 days after 7 years service.
2 months long service leave after 10 years service with an additional 2 weeks long service leave for each additional year of service completed after 10 years.
Free staff TravelPass on Government Bus, Rail and Ferry services in Sydney Metropolitan area and free family interstate and intrastate rail travel(Conditions apply).
Generous shift, overtime and penalty rates.   The rates are varied depending on day, time and number of hours to be worked in the rostered period. (see below for details)  
Access to part time work options
NORMAL Rates of Pay
The following provides a guide to applicable pay rates. Pay rates are effective from 12 June 2008:

$20.72 per hour for the first 12 months of employment, after this time, with satisfactory work performance $22.28 per hour. 
Casuals are paid $24.86 per hour.
Senior Bus Operators are paid $22.70 per hour.
Overtime Rates

The following rules are applied when calculating penalty and overtime rates for Bus Operators:

Overtime is paid on a daily basis after 8 hours 15 minutes have been worked.
Overtime is paid on a weekly basis after 40 hours have been worked.
Overtime is paid at time and a half for the first 3 hours and double time thereafter and is applied on the daily or weekly overtime basis, whichever is the greater advantage to the employee.
Saturday's are paid at time and a half when worked as part of the normal roster.
Sundays are voluntary overtime and paid at double time.
Hours worked before 7 am and between 5 pm and 8pm attract a 15% penalty. When a shift ends after 8 pm all the hours of the shift attract a 15% penalty.
Broken shifts attract a penalty rate when the spread of hours exceeds 9.5 hours. Time worked between a 9.5 hour and 10.5 hour spread is paid at time and a half. Time worked in excess of a 10.5 hour spread is paid at double time.

For example, a broken shift working from 6 am to 10 am and then from 2 pm to 6 pm would attract the following rates:

6 am to 10 am - normal rates
2 pm to 3.30 pm - normal rates
3.30 pm to 4.30 pm - time and a half
4.30 pm to 6.00 pm - double time.
The maximum rate to be paid for any hours worked is double normal time. Shift penalty rates are not applied to overtime rates. [July 08]