Workload management for academics within higher education settings has been and continues to be heavily contested and cited by some as a challenge that has proved impossible to satisfactorily decipher. This is especially problematic within postgraduate contexts where academics have multilayered roles and responsibilities that include teaching, producing research outputs, participating in civic engagement and providing research supervision to students. Related to this, wide-ranging scholarly efforts have been directed at developing workload allocation frameworks, most of which have had limited application utility. Motivated by this, the current article contributes to existing scholarship on workload allocation models in higher education institutions, with specific emphasis on the postgraduate supervision workload allocation dimension.