{ "name": "Nunavut, Canada nursing wage rates", "profession": "Nursing", "professionCode": "nursing", "code": "canada-nunavut", "region": "Nunavut", "country": "Canada", "currency": "CAD", "pageUrl": "https://myrosterapp.com.au/wages/canada-nunavut/", "dataUrl": "https://myrosterapp.com.au/wages/canada-nunavut/data.json", "catalogUrl": "https://myrosterapp.com.au/wages/data.json", "publisher": "MyRoster", "publisherUrl": "https://myrosterapp.com.au", "lastModified": "2026-10-26", "license": "Free for personal reference. Quote rates with credit to MyRoster (https://myrosterapp.com.au) and a link to the relevant wage page. Any other reuse (republishing, apps, datasets) requires permission — contact hello@myrosterapp.com.au.", "attribution": "Wage data compiled by MyRoster (https://myrosterapp.com.au) from the official collective agreement listed in each dataset's sourceUrls. Credit MyRoster and link to pageUrl when quoting.", "rateNotes": "hourly / weekly / annual figures are derived from each agreement's source amounts (see sourceFrequency) using its fullTimeHoursPerWeek and weeksPerYear (52.1667 unless the payroll convention differs, e.g. 52.17857 = 365.25 ÷ 7). Base rates only — overtime, premiums and allowances are listed separately. Each pay point lists its rates at their own effective dates; a rate stays in force until that pay point's next dated rate, so an effective date with no rate of its own for a pay point carries the latest earlier one (which may predate the agreement's first listed effective date).", "app": { "name": "MyRoster", "description": "MyRoster calculates take-home pay for shift workers from these rates — premiums, allowances, overtime, federal and territorial tax, CPP and EI — on iOS and Android.", "website": "https://myrosterapp.com.au" }, "agreements": [ { "agreementName": "Collective Agreement between the Nunavut Employees Union and the Minister Responsible for the Public Service Act", "agreementStatus": "Current — runs to 30 Sep 2028", "datasetCode": "canada-nunavut", "region": "Nunavut", "country": "Canada", "currency": "CAD", "fullTimeHoursPerWeek": 37.5, "weeksPerYear": 52, "sourceFrequency": "hourly", "effectiveDates": [ "2025-10-01", "2026-10-01", "2027-10-01" ], "sourceUrls": [ "https://www.gov.nu.ca/sites/default/files/documents/2026-07/GN_-_NEU_Collective_Agreement_Final.pdf" ], "roles": [ { "title": "Licensed Practical Nurse", "description": "The Government of Nunavut has advertised licensed practical nurse jobs at Range 12. Ranges come from job evaluation; your offer letter names yours.", "grade": "Range 12", "payPoints": [ { "id": "r12-1", "label": "Step 1", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "hourly": 49.55, "weekly": 1858.13, "annual": 96622.5 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-10-01", "hourly": 51.04, "weekly": 1914, "annual": 99528 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-10-01", "hourly": 52.32, "weekly": 1962, "annual": 102024 } ] }, { "id": "r12-2", "label": "Step 2", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "hourly": 50.85, "weekly": 1906.88, "annual": 99157.5 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-10-01", "hourly": 52.38, "weekly": 1964.25, "annual": 102141 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-10-01", "hourly": 53.69, "weekly": 2013.38, "annual": 104695.5 } ] }, { "id": "r12-3", "label": "Step 3", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "hourly": 52.13, "weekly": 1954.88, "annual": 101653.5 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-10-01", "hourly": 53.69, "weekly": 2013.38, "annual": 104695.5 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-10-01", "hourly": 55.03, "weekly": 2063.63, "annual": 107308.5 } ] }, { "id": "r12-4", "label": "Step 4", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "hourly": 53.49, "weekly": 2005.88, "annual": 104305.5 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-10-01", "hourly": 55.09, "weekly": 2065.88, "annual": 107425.5 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-10-01", "hourly": 56.47, "weekly": 2117.63, "annual": 110116.5 } ] }, { "id": "r12-5", "label": "Step 5", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "hourly": 54.87, "weekly": 2057.63, "annual": 106996.5 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-10-01", "hourly": 56.52, "weekly": 2119.5, "annual": 110214 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-10-01", "hourly": 57.93, "weekly": 2172.38, "annual": 112963.5 } ] }, { "id": "r12-6", "label": "Step 6", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "hourly": 56.28, "weekly": 2110.5, "annual": 109746 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-10-01", "hourly": 57.97, "weekly": 2173.88, "annual": 113041.5 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-10-01", "hourly": 59.42, "weekly": 2228.25, "annual": 115869 } ] } ] }, { "title": "Clinical Nurse Educator", "description": "Advertised for clinical nurse educators. 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Ranges come from job evaluation; your offer letter names yours.", "grade": "Range 22", "payPoints": [ { "id": "r22-1", "label": "Step 1", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "hourly": 74.63, "weekly": 2798.63, "annual": 145528.5 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-10-01", "hourly": 76.87, "weekly": 2882.63, "annual": 149896.5 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-10-01", "hourly": 78.79, "weekly": 2954.63, "annual": 153640.5 } ] }, { "id": "r22-2", "label": "Step 2", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "hourly": 76.54, "weekly": 2870.25, "annual": 149253 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-10-01", "hourly": 78.84, "weekly": 2956.5, "annual": 153738 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-10-01", "hourly": 80.81, "weekly": 3030.38, "annual": 157579.5 } ] }, { "id": "r22-3", "label": "Step 3", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "hourly": 78.51, "weekly": 2944.13, "annual": 153094.5 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-10-01", "hourly": 80.87, "weekly": 3032.63, "annual": 157696.5 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-10-01", "hourly": 82.89, "weekly": 3108.38, "annual": 161635.5 } ] }, { "id": "r22-4", "label": "Step 4", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "hourly": 80.53, "weekly": 3019.88, "annual": 157033.5 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-10-01", "hourly": 82.95, "weekly": 3110.63, "annual": 161752.5 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-10-01", "hourly": 85.02, "weekly": 3188.25, "annual": 165789 } ] }, { "id": "r22-5", "label": "Step 5", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "hourly": 82.59, "weekly": 3097.13, "annual": 161050.5 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-10-01", "hourly": 85.07, "weekly": 3190.12, "annual": 165886.5 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-10-01", "hourly": 87.2, "weekly": 3270, "annual": 170040 } ] }, { "id": "r22-6", "label": "Step 6", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "hourly": 84.71, "weekly": 3176.62, "annual": 165184.5 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-10-01", "hourly": 87.25, "weekly": 3271.88, "annual": 170137.5 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-10-01", "hourly": 89.43, "weekly": 3353.63, "annual": 174388.5 } ] } ] } ], "allowances": [ { "name": "Evening shift premium", "description": "Hours worked 16:00 to 24:00 by nurses regularly scheduled outside 08:00–17:00, and on overtime next to those hours. 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"effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 23516 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-01-01", "amount": 23986 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-01-01", "amount": 24706 } ] }, { "name": "Northern Allowance: Clyde River", "unit": "Per Year", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 28169 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-01-01", "amount": 28732 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-01-01", "amount": 29594 } ] }, { "name": "Northern Allowance: Coral Harbour", "unit": "Per Year", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 24747 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-01-01", "amount": 25242 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-01-01", "amount": 25999 } ] }, { "name": "Northern Allowance: Gjoa Haven", "unit": "Per Year", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 26345 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-01-01", "amount": 26872 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-01-01", "amount": 27678 } ] }, { "name": "Northern Allowance: Grise Fiord", "unit": "Per Year", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 43588 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-01-01", "amount": 44460 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-01-01", "amount": 45794 } ] }, { "name": "Northern Allowance: Igloolik", "unit": "Per Year", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 26437 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-01-01", "amount": 26966 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-01-01", "amount": 27775 } ] }, { "name": "Northern Allowance: Iqaluit", "unit": "Per Year", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 16008 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-01-01", "amount": 16328 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-01-01", "amount": 16818 } ] }, { "name": "Northern Allowance: Kimmirut", "unit": "Per Year", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 23047 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-01-01", "amount": 23508 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-01-01", "amount": 24213 } ] }, { "name": "Northern Allowance: Kinngait", "unit": "Per Year", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 24192 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-01-01", "amount": 24676 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-01-01", "amount": 25416 } ] }, { "name": "Northern Allowance: Kugaaruk", "unit": "Per Year", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 27465 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-01-01", "amount": 28014 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-01-01", "amount": 28855 } ] }, { "name": "Northern Allowance: Kugluktuk", "unit": "Per Year", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 22042 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-01-01", "amount": 22483 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-01-01", "amount": 23157 } ] }, { "name": "Northern Allowance: Naujaat", "unit": "Per Year", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 24317 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-01-01", "amount": 24803 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-01-01", "amount": 25547 } ] }, { "name": "Northern Allowance: Pangnirtung", "unit": "Per Year", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 24054 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-01-01", "amount": 24535 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-01-01", "amount": 25271 } ] }, { "name": "Northern Allowance: Pond Inlet", "unit": "Per Year", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 28577 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-01-01", "amount": 29149 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-01-01", "amount": 30023 } ] }, { "name": "Northern Allowance: Qikiqtarjuaq", "unit": "Per Year", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 25143 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-01-01", "amount": 25646 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-01-01", "amount": 26415 } ] }, { "name": "Northern Allowance: Rankin Inlet", "unit": "Per Year", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 18517 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-01-01", "amount": 18887 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-01-01", "amount": 19454 } ] }, { "name": "Northern Allowance: Resolute Bay", "unit": "Per Year", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 33043 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-01-01", "amount": 33704 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-01-01", "amount": 34715 } ] }, { "name": "Northern Allowance: Sanikiluaq", "unit": "Per Year", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 23673 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-01-01", "amount": 24146 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-01-01", "amount": 24871 } ] }, { "name": "Northern Allowance: Sanirajak", "unit": "Per Year", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 25453 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-01-01", "amount": 25962 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-01-01", "amount": 26741 } ] }, { "name": "Northern Allowance: Taloyoak", "unit": "Per Year", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 30424 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-01-01", "amount": 31032 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-01-01", "amount": 31963 } ] }, { "name": "Northern Allowance: Whale Cove", "unit": "Per Year", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 21564 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-01-01", "amount": 21995 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-01-01", "amount": 22655 } ] }, { "name": "Annual allowance: one-nurse health centre", "description": "MOU 12 clause 24(a)", "unit": "Per Year", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 19500 } ] }, { "name": "Annual allowance: two-nurse health centre", "description": "Two-, three- and four-nurse centres pay the higher rate while running short-staffed for more than 7 calendar days in a row. MOU 12 clause 24(b)", "unit": "Per Year", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 16350 } ] }, { "name": "Annual allowance: three-nurse health centre", "description": "MOU 12 clause 24(c)", "unit": "Per Year", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 14250 } ] }, { "name": "Annual allowance: four-nurse health centre", "description": "MOU 12 clause 24(d)", "unit": "Per Year", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 11625 } ] }, { "name": "Annual allowance: frontline nurse", "description": "Every other nurse giving primary, secondary, acute or emergency care. MOU 12 clause 24(f)", "unit": "Per Year", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 9000 } ] }, { "name": "Tiered premium: Tier One", "description": "Listed positions such as community health nurse, nurse practitioner, public health, OR and psychiatric nurse. Not paid on leave. MOU 12 clause 25", "unit": "Per Hour", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 10 } ] }, { "name": "Tiered premium: Tier Two", "description": "The same positions in a community the employer designates difficult to fill (highest tier only). MOU 12 clause 25", "unit": "Per Hour", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 15 } ] }, { "name": "Continuous service allowance: up to 5 years", "description": "Frontline nurses, by years of continuous service. MOU 12 clause 33", "unit": "Per Month", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 375 } ] }, { "name": "Continuous service allowance: 5 to 10 years", "unit": "Per Month", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 400 } ] }, { "name": "Continuous service allowance: 10 to 15 years", "unit": "Per Month", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 450 } ] }, { "name": "Continuous service allowance: 15 to 20 years", "unit": "Per Month", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 500 } ] }, { "name": "Continuous service allowance: over 20 years", "unit": "Per Month", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 550 } ] }, { "name": "Education allowance: CHA/CNA certification course", "description": "Only one education allowance is paid. MOU 12 clause 22(c)", "unit": "Per Month", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 25 } ] }, { "name": "Education allowance: one-year university or midwifery course", "description": "MOU 12 clause 22(d)", "unit": "Per Month", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 75 } ] }, { "name": "Education allowance: bachelor’s degree or higher", "description": "MOU 12 clause 22(e)", "unit": "Per Month", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 125 } ] }, { "name": "Special clinical preparation", "description": "Approved special clinical preparation. MOU 12 clause 22(a)", "unit": "Per Month", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 40 } ] }, { "name": "Uniform allowance", "description": "MOU 12 clause 15", "unit": "Per Month", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 25 } ] }, { "name": "Mentorship allowance", "description": "While a designated mentor to another nurse. MOU 12 clause 34", "unit": "Per Month", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 500 } ] }, { "name": "Recruitment bonus (new frontline nurses)", "description": "Indeterminate frontline nurses hired after the agreement was signed who haven’t had a GN signing bonus or labour market supplement: $5,000 at the start, $5,000 at 18 months and $10,000 at 30 months of continuous service. MOU 12 clause 31", "unit": "Lump Sum", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": "$5,000 + $5,000 + $10,000" } ] }, { "name": "Retention bonus (frontline nurses employed at signing)", "description": "Indeterminate frontline nurses already employed when the agreement was signed who haven’t had a GN signing bonus or labour market supplement: $10,000 at 30 months and $10,000 at 36 months of continuous service. MOU 12 clause 32", "unit": "Lump Sum", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": "$10,000 + $10,000" } ] }, { "name": "Stand-by", "description": "For each 8 consecutive hours on stand-by, or part of 8. Article 28.01(a)", "unit": "Per 8h", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 40 } ] }, { "name": "Stand-by (day of rest or holiday)", "description": "Article 28.01(a)", "unit": "Per 8h", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 50 } ] }, { "name": "Relief pay in lieu of leave", "description": "Relief nurses, in lieu of holidays, leave and benefits: 10% in years 1–2, 12% from year 3, 14% from year 10, 16% from year 15 and 18% from year 21. Article 51.06", "unit": "Of Regular Pay", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": "10% to 18%" } ] } ], "penalties": [ { "name": "Overtime — first 4 hours", "rate": "150%", "description": "The first four consecutive hours of overtime. Paid for each completed 15 minutes, at least an hour. Article 23" }, { "name": "Overtime — after 4 hours", "rate": "200%", "description": "Double time after four consecutive hours of overtime. Article 23" }, { "name": "Overtime — second or later day of rest", "rate": "200%", "description": "Double time from the first hour. Article 23" }, { "name": "Overtime next to a 12-hour shift", "rate": "200%", "description": "Any overtime immediately before or after a scheduled 12-hour shift. MOU 12 clause 19(a)" }, { "name": "Work on a holiday (12-hour shift workers)", "rate": "200%", "description": "Every hour worked on the holiday, on top of a holiday bank of 12 hours for each holiday credited every 1 April. MOU 9 clause 3" }, { "name": "Work on a holiday (other regular nurses)", "rate": "150% / 200%", "description": "On top of the day’s holiday pay: time and a half for the first four hours worked, then double time, or an agreed mix of pay and a later day off. Article 15.05" }, { "name": "Work on a holiday (casual nurses)", "rate": "Overtime rates", "description": "Casual nurses scheduled on a holiday are paid the applicable overtime rate for all hours worked from 00:01 to 23:59. MOU 12 clause 7" }, { "name": "Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve", "rate": "150% / 200%", "description": "Regularly scheduled hours from 17:00 on 24 and 31 December: time and a half for the first four hours, then double time. Article 15.08" }, { "name": "Third consecutive weekend", "rate": "Overtime rates", "description": "Weekend hours on the third and later weekends worked in a row. Article 22.03(d)" }, { "name": "Short-notice schedule change", "rate": "150%", "description": "The first two full shifts of a schedule changed with less than 5 calendar days’ notice. MOU 12 clause 10(c)" }, { "name": "More than 16 hours in a row", "rate": "250%", "description": "Hours worked beyond 16 consecutive hours. Article 22.11(h)" }, { "name": "Call-back", "rate": "Greater of OT or 4 hrs", "description": "Overtime for the time worked or four hours at straight time, whichever is more; called in from stand-by, the same minimum for the first call-in of each 8-hour block. Articles 26.02 and 28.01(d)" } ], "notes": [ "Rates are the hourly tables (Appendix B1, B5 and B9). The nurses in this tab work 37.5 hours a week, 1,950 hours a year, which the annual figures here use. Hospital RNs on 12-hour shifts work 42 hours a week and have their own tab.", "Pay is by job-evaluated pay range with 6 steps. The ranges shown are the ones the Government of Nunavut advertises for each nursing job; check your offer letter for yours.", "You move up one step a year on the anniversary of your most recent appointment. New nurses start one step up for each year of related experience, up to Step 6 (MOU 12 clause 23).", "General increases: 3% on 1 October 2025, 3% on 1 October 2026 and 2.5% on 1 October 2027.", "The agreement runs from 1 October 2024 to 30 September 2028.", "The Northern Allowance is a yearly amount by community, from Iqaluit (lowest) to Grise Fiord (highest). Indeterminate nurses can choose to take it as one lump sum instead of every two weeks.", "Overtime meal: after three or more hours of overtime when you can’t leave, a meal or the Nunavut duty-travel dinner rate (Article 23.06), which follows federal travel rates.", "Signing and retention bonuses, the temporary labour market supplement and language allowances are paid under their own conditions; see MOU 12 and Article 24 of the agreement.", "Source: Collective Agreement between the Nunavut Employees Union and the Minister Responsible for the Public Service Act (1 October 2024 to 30 September 2028) — https://www.gov.nu.ca/sites/default/files/documents/2026-07/GN_-_NEU_Collective_Agreement_Final.pdf" ] }, { "agreementName": "Collective Agreement between the Nunavut Employees Union and the Minister Responsible for the Public Service Act", "agreementStatus": "Current — runs to 30 Sep 2028", "datasetCode": "canada-nunavut", "region": "Nunavut", "country": "Canada", "currency": "CAD", "fullTimeHoursPerWeek": 42, "weeksPerYear": 52, "sourceFrequency": "hourly", "effectiveDates": [ "2025-10-01", "2026-10-01", "2027-10-01" ], "sourceUrls": [ "https://www.gov.nu.ca/sites/default/files/documents/2026-07/GN_-_NEU_Collective_Agreement_Final.pdf" ], "roles": [ { "title": "Registered Nurse", "description": "Hospital RNs at Qikiqtani General Hospital, Iqaluit (inpatient, emergency, OR and day surgery), on 12-hour shifts, 4 on and 4 off. Ranges come from job evaluation; your offer letter names yours.", "grade": "Range 15", "payPoints": [ { "id": "r15-1", "label": "Step 1", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "hourly": 55.76, "weekly": 2341.92, "annual": 121779.84 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-10-01", "hourly": 57.43, "weekly": 2412.06, "annual": 125427.12 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-10-01", "hourly": 58.87, "weekly": 2472.54, "annual": 128572.08 } ] }, { "id": "r15-2", "label": "Step 2", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "hourly": 57.21, "weekly": 2402.82, "annual": 124946.64 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-10-01", "hourly": 58.93, "weekly": 2475.06, "annual": 128703.12 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-10-01", "hourly": 60.4, "weekly": 2536.8, "annual": 131913.6 } ] }, { "id": "r15-3", "label": "Step 3", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "hourly": 58.65, "weekly": 2463.3, "annual": 128091.6 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-10-01", "hourly": 60.41, "weekly": 2537.22, "annual": 131935.44 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-10-01", "hourly": 61.92, "weekly": 2600.64, "annual": 135233.28 } ] }, { "id": "r15-4", "label": "Step 4", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "hourly": 60.15, "weekly": 2526.3, "annual": 131367.6 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-10-01", "hourly": 61.95, "weekly": 2601.9, "annual": 135298.8 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-10-01", "hourly": 63.5, "weekly": 2667, "annual": 138684 } ] }, { "id": "r15-5", "label": "Step 5", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "hourly": 61.7, "weekly": 2591.4, "annual": 134752.8 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-10-01", "hourly": 63.55, "weekly": 2669.1, "annual": 138793.2 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-10-01", "hourly": 65.14, "weekly": 2735.88, "annual": 142265.76 } ] }, { "id": "r15-6", "label": "Step 6", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "hourly": 63.28, "weekly": 2657.76, "annual": 138203.52 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-10-01", "hourly": 65.18, "weekly": 2737.56, "annual": 142353.12 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-10-01", "hourly": 66.81, "weekly": 2806.02, "annual": 145913.04 } ] } ] } ], "allowances": [ { "name": "Evening shift premium", "description": "Hours worked 16:00 to 24:00 by nurses regularly scheduled outside 08:00–17:00, and on overtime next to those hours. Article 27.01", "unit": "Per Hour", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 1.5 } ] }, { "name": "Night shift premium", "description": "Hours worked 00:00 to 08:00, on the same terms. Article 27.01", "unit": "Per Hour", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 1.75 } ] }, { "name": "Weekend premium", "description": "Regularly scheduled straight-time hours on Saturday and Sunday; not paid on overtime. Stacks with the shift premiums. Article 27.02", "unit": "Per Hour", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 0.8 } ] }, { "name": "Responsibility allowance (in charge)", "description": "Designated in charge of a ward, unit, health centre or department, on any shift. MOU 12 clause 11", "unit": "Per Hour", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 2 } ] }, { "name": "Northern Allowance: Arctic Bay", "description": "Paid every two weeks; part-time and casual nurses get it per hour paid (annual ÷ standard yearly hours). Never on overtime. Up 2% from 1 January 2026 and 3% from January 2027. Article 39", "unit": "Per Year", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 29922 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-01-01", "amount": 30520 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-01-01", "amount": 31436 } ] }, { "name": "Northern Allowance: Arviat", "unit": "Per Year", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 22178 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-01-01", "amount": 22622 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-01-01", "amount": 23300 } ] }, { "name": "Northern Allowance: Baker Lake", "unit": "Per Year", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 24381 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-01-01", "amount": 24869 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-01-01", "amount": 25615 } ] }, { "name": "Northern Allowance: Cambridge Bay", "unit": "Per Year", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 20891 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-01-01", "amount": 21309 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-01-01", "amount": 21948 } ] }, { "name": "Northern Allowance: Chesterfield Inlet", "unit": "Per Year", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 23516 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-01-01", "amount": 23986 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-01-01", "amount": 24706 } ] }, { "name": "Northern Allowance: Clyde River", "unit": "Per Year", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 28169 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-01-01", "amount": 28732 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-01-01", "amount": 29594 } ] }, { "name": "Northern Allowance: Coral Harbour", "unit": "Per Year", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 24747 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-01-01", "amount": 25242 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-01-01", "amount": 25999 } ] }, { "name": "Northern Allowance: Gjoa Haven", "unit": "Per Year", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 26345 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-01-01", "amount": 26872 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-01-01", "amount": 27678 } ] }, { "name": "Northern Allowance: Grise Fiord", "unit": "Per Year", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 43588 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-01-01", "amount": 44460 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-01-01", "amount": 45794 } ] }, { "name": "Northern Allowance: Igloolik", "unit": "Per Year", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 26437 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-01-01", "amount": 26966 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-01-01", "amount": 27775 } ] }, { "name": "Northern Allowance: Iqaluit", "unit": "Per Year", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 16008 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-01-01", "amount": 16328 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-01-01", "amount": 16818 } ] }, { "name": "Northern Allowance: Kimmirut", "unit": "Per Year", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 23047 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-01-01", "amount": 23508 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-01-01", "amount": 24213 } ] }, { "name": "Northern Allowance: Kinngait", "unit": "Per Year", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 24192 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-01-01", "amount": 24676 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-01-01", "amount": 25416 } ] }, { "name": "Northern Allowance: Kugaaruk", "unit": "Per Year", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 27465 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-01-01", "amount": 28014 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-01-01", "amount": 28855 } ] }, { "name": "Northern Allowance: Kugluktuk", "unit": "Per Year", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 22042 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-01-01", "amount": 22483 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-01-01", "amount": 23157 } ] }, { "name": "Northern Allowance: Naujaat", "unit": "Per Year", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 24317 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-01-01", "amount": 24803 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-01-01", "amount": 25547 } ] }, { "name": "Northern Allowance: Pangnirtung", "unit": "Per Year", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 24054 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-01-01", "amount": 24535 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-01-01", "amount": 25271 } ] }, { "name": "Northern Allowance: Pond Inlet", "unit": "Per Year", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 28577 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-01-01", "amount": 29149 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-01-01", "amount": 30023 } ] }, { "name": "Northern Allowance: Qikiqtarjuaq", "unit": "Per Year", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 25143 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-01-01", "amount": 25646 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-01-01", "amount": 26415 } ] }, { "name": "Northern Allowance: Rankin Inlet", "unit": "Per Year", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 18517 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-01-01", "amount": 18887 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-01-01", "amount": 19454 } ] }, { "name": "Northern Allowance: Resolute Bay", "unit": "Per Year", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 33043 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-01-01", "amount": 33704 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-01-01", "amount": 34715 } ] }, { "name": "Northern Allowance: Sanikiluaq", "unit": "Per Year", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 23673 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-01-01", "amount": 24146 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-01-01", "amount": 24871 } ] }, { "name": "Northern Allowance: Sanirajak", "unit": "Per Year", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 25453 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-01-01", "amount": 25962 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-01-01", "amount": 26741 } ] }, { "name": "Northern Allowance: Taloyoak", "unit": "Per Year", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 30424 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-01-01", "amount": 31032 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-01-01", "amount": 31963 } ] }, { "name": "Northern Allowance: Whale Cove", "unit": "Per Year", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 21564 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-01-01", "amount": 21995 }, { "effectiveDate": "2027-01-01", "amount": 22655 } ] }, { "name": "Annual allowance: frontline nurse", "description": "Every other nurse giving primary, secondary, acute or emergency care. MOU 12 clause 24(f)", "unit": "Per Year", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 9000 } ] }, { "name": "Tiered premium: Tier One", "description": "Listed positions such as community health nurse, nurse practitioner, public health, OR and psychiatric nurse. Not paid on leave. MOU 12 clause 25", "unit": "Per Hour", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 10 } ] }, { "name": "Tiered premium: Tier Two", "description": "The same positions in a community the employer designates difficult to fill (highest tier only). MOU 12 clause 25", "unit": "Per Hour", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 15 } ] }, { "name": "Continuous service allowance: up to 5 years", "description": "Frontline nurses, by years of continuous service. MOU 12 clause 33", "unit": "Per Month", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 375 } ] }, { "name": "Continuous service allowance: 5 to 10 years", "unit": "Per Month", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 400 } ] }, { "name": "Continuous service allowance: 10 to 15 years", "unit": "Per Month", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 450 } ] }, { "name": "Continuous service allowance: 15 to 20 years", "unit": "Per Month", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 500 } ] }, { "name": "Continuous service allowance: over 20 years", "unit": "Per Month", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 550 } ] }, { "name": "Education allowance: CHA/CNA certification course", "description": "Only one education allowance is paid. MOU 12 clause 22(c)", "unit": "Per Month", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 25 } ] }, { "name": "Education allowance: one-year university or midwifery course", "description": "MOU 12 clause 22(d)", "unit": "Per Month", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 75 } ] }, { "name": "Education allowance: bachelor’s degree or higher", "description": "MOU 12 clause 22(e)", "unit": "Per Month", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 125 } ] }, { "name": "Special clinical preparation", "description": "Approved special clinical preparation. MOU 12 clause 22(a)", "unit": "Per Month", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 40 } ] }, { "name": "Uniform allowance", "description": "MOU 12 clause 15", "unit": "Per Month", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 25 } ] }, { "name": "Mentorship allowance", "description": "While a designated mentor to another nurse. MOU 12 clause 34", "unit": "Per Month", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 500 } ] }, { "name": "Recruitment bonus (new frontline nurses)", "description": "Indeterminate frontline nurses hired after the agreement was signed who haven’t had a GN signing bonus or labour market supplement: $5,000 at the start, $5,000 at 18 months and $10,000 at 30 months of continuous service. MOU 12 clause 31", "unit": "Lump Sum", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": "$5,000 + $5,000 + $10,000" } ] }, { "name": "Retention bonus (frontline nurses employed at signing)", "description": "Indeterminate frontline nurses already employed when the agreement was signed who haven’t had a GN signing bonus or labour market supplement: $10,000 at 30 months and $10,000 at 36 months of continuous service. MOU 12 clause 32", "unit": "Lump Sum", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": "$10,000 + $10,000" } ] }, { "name": "Stand-by", "description": "For each 8 consecutive hours on stand-by, or part of 8. Article 28.01(a)", "unit": "Per 8h", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 40 } ] }, { "name": "Stand-by (day of rest or holiday)", "description": "Article 28.01(a)", "unit": "Per 8h", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": 50 } ] }, { "name": "Relief pay in lieu of leave", "description": "Relief nurses, in lieu of holidays, leave and benefits: 10% in years 1–2, 12% from year 3, 14% from year 10, 16% from year 15 and 18% from year 21. Article 51.06", "unit": "Of Regular Pay", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-10-01", "amount": "10% to 18%" } ] } ], "penalties": [ { "name": "Overtime — first 4 hours", "rate": "150%", "description": "The first four consecutive hours of overtime. Paid for each completed 15 minutes, at least an hour. Article 23" }, { "name": "Overtime — after 4 hours", "rate": "200%", "description": "Double time after four consecutive hours of overtime. Article 23" }, { "name": "Overtime — second or later day of rest", "rate": "200%", "description": "Double time from the first hour. Article 23" }, { "name": "Overtime next to a 12-hour shift", "rate": "200%", "description": "Any overtime immediately before or after a scheduled 12-hour shift. MOU 12 clause 19(a)" }, { "name": "Work on a holiday (12-hour shift workers)", "rate": "200%", "description": "Every hour worked on the holiday, on top of a holiday bank of 12 hours for each holiday credited every 1 April. MOU 9 clause 3" }, { "name": "Work on a holiday (other regular nurses)", "rate": "150% / 200%", "description": "On top of the day’s holiday pay: time and a half for the first four hours worked, then double time, or an agreed mix of pay and a later day off. Article 15.05" }, { "name": "Work on a holiday (casual nurses)", "rate": "Overtime rates", "description": "Casual nurses scheduled on a holiday are paid the applicable overtime rate for all hours worked from 00:01 to 23:59. MOU 12 clause 7" }, { "name": "Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve", "rate": "150% / 200%", "description": "Regularly scheduled hours from 17:00 on 24 and 31 December: time and a half for the first four hours, then double time. Article 15.08" }, { "name": "Third consecutive weekend", "rate": "Overtime rates", "description": "Weekend hours on the third and later weekends worked in a row. Article 22.03(d)" }, { "name": "Short-notice schedule change", "rate": "150%", "description": "The first two full shifts of a schedule changed with less than 5 calendar days’ notice. MOU 12 clause 10(c)" }, { "name": "More than 16 hours in a row", "rate": "250%", "description": "Hours worked beyond 16 consecutive hours. Article 22.11(h)" }, { "name": "Call-back", "rate": "Greater of OT or 4 hrs", "description": "Overtime for the time worked or four hours at straight time, whichever is more; called in from stand-by, the same minimum for the first call-in of each 8-hour block. Articles 26.02 and 28.01(d)" } ], "notes": [ "Rates are the hourly tables (Appendix B1, B5 and B9). Hospital RNs work 12-hour shifts, 4 on and 4 off: 42 hours a week, 2,184 hours a year (MOU 9), which the annual figures here use.", "Pay is by job-evaluated pay range with 6 steps. The ranges shown are the ones the Government of Nunavut advertises for each nursing job; check your offer letter for yours.", "You move up one step a year on the anniversary of your most recent appointment. New nurses start one step up for each year of related experience, up to Step 6 (MOU 12 clause 23).", "General increases: 3% on 1 October 2025, 3% on 1 October 2026 and 2.5% on 1 October 2027.", "The agreement runs from 1 October 2024 to 30 September 2028.", "The Northern Allowance is a yearly amount by community, from Iqaluit (lowest) to Grise Fiord (highest). Indeterminate nurses can choose to take it as one lump sum instead of every two weeks.", "Overtime meal: after three or more hours of overtime when you can’t leave, a meal or the Nunavut duty-travel dinner rate (Article 23.06), which follows federal travel rates.", "Signing and retention bonuses, the temporary labour market supplement and language allowances are paid under their own conditions; see MOU 12 and Article 24 of the agreement.", "Source: Collective Agreement between the Nunavut Employees Union and the Minister Responsible for the Public Service Act (1 October 2024 to 30 September 2028) — https://www.gov.nu.ca/sites/default/files/documents/2026-07/GN_-_NEU_Collective_Agreement_Final.pdf" ] } ] }