Yes but rmcdonal you are doing something that many in aviation are guilty of.
The award is the bare legal minimum, not something to aspire to.
It takes the melbourne metro operator 72 weeks to train their drivers. There are no train driver 'sausage factories' pumping out hundreds of legally qualified ones a year.
They get paid well above the award. The figures stated before are accurate, about 85k base but most getting near 100k with overtime.
Add 100k to that =200k, now how many (non QF) pilots in aus earn that?