{ "name": "Saskatchewan, Canada nursing wage rates", "profession": "Nursing", "professionCode": "nursing", "code": "canada-saskatchewan", "region": "Saskatchewan", "country": "Canada", "currency": "CAD", "pageUrl": "https://myrosterapp.com.au/wages/canada-saskatchewan/", "dataUrl": "https://myrosterapp.com.au/wages/canada-saskatchewan/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 provincial tax, CPP and EI — on iOS and Android.", "website": "https://myrosterapp.com.au" }, "agreements": [ { "agreementName": "Collective Agreement between Saskatchewan Association of Health Organizations Inc. and The Saskatchewan Union of Nurses, April 1, 2018 to March 31, 2024", "agreementStatus": "Expired 31 Mar 2024 — continues in force while a new agreement is bargained", "datasetCode": "canada-saskatchewan", "region": "Saskatchewan", "country": "Canada", "currency": "CAD", "fullTimeHoursPerWeek": 37.3333, "weeksPerYear": 52.2, "sourceFrequency": "hourly", "effectiveDates": [ "2023-04-01" ], "sourceUrls": [ "https://sun-nurses.sk.ca/pub/docs/contracts-and-bargaining/collective-agreements/SUN-SAHO%20CBA%202018-2024%20SAHO_Final%20-%20for%20Web.pdf", "https://sun-nurses.sk.ca/pub/docs/contracts-and-bargaining/collective-agreements/SAHO%20SUN%20Wage%20Schedule%20%28April%201%202018%20to%20March%2031%202024%29.pdf", "https://sun-nurses.sk.ca/about-us/newswire/negotiations-update-19" ], "roles": [ { "title": "Registered Nurse (Nurse A)", "description": "Most staff registered nurses and registered psychiatric nurses, in hospital or the community.", "grade": "Nurse A", "payPoints": [ { "id": "a-1", "label": "Step 1", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2023-04-01", "hourly": 38.58, "weekly": 1440.32, "annual": 75184.64 } ] }, { "id": "a-2", "label": "Step 2", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2023-04-01", "hourly": 40.41, "weekly": 1508.64, "annual": 78750.94 } ] }, { "id": "a-3", "label": "Step 2.5 (half-step)", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2023-04-01", "hourly": 41.34, "weekly": 1543.36, "annual": 80563.32 } ] }, { "id": "a-4", "label": "Step 3", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2023-04-01", "hourly": 42.26, "weekly": 1577.71, "annual": 82356.21 } ] }, { "id": "a-5", "label": "Step 3.5 (half-step)", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2023-04-01", "hourly": 43.26, "weekly": 1615.04, "annual": 84305.01 } ] }, { "id": "a-6", "label": "Step 4", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2023-04-01", "hourly": 44.26, "weekly": 1652.37, "annual": 86253.81 } ] }, { "id": "a-7", "label": "Step 4.5 (half-step)", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2023-04-01", "hourly": 45.77, "weekly": 1708.75, "annual": 89196.5 } ] }, { "id": "a-8", "label": "Step 5", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2023-04-01", "hourly": 47.27, "weekly": 1764.75, "annual": 92119.69 } ] }, { "id": "a-9", "label": "Step 5.5 (half-step)", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2023-04-01", "hourly": 48.67, "weekly": 1817.01, "annual": 94848.01 } ] }, { "id": "a-10", "label": "Step 6", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2023-04-01", "hourly": 50.07, "weekly": 1869.28, "annual": 97576.33 } ] } ] }, { "title": "Registered Nurse (Nurse B)", "description": "A higher-rated position under the SAHO/SUN Position Evaluation Tool.", "grade": "Nurse B", "payPoints": [ { "id": "b-1", "label": "Step 1", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2023-04-01", "hourly": 42.04, "weekly": 1569.49, "annual": 81927.48 } ] }, { "id": "b-2", "label": "Step 2", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2023-04-01", "hourly": 44.02, "weekly": 1643.41, "annual": 85786.1 } ] }, { "id": "b-3", "label": "Step 2.5 (half-step)", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2023-04-01", "hourly": 45.06, "weekly": 1682.24, "annual": 87812.85 } ] }, { "id": "b-4", "label": "Step 3", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2023-04-01", "hourly": 46.1, "weekly": 1721.07, "annual": 89839.6 } ] }, { "id": "b-5", "label": "Step 3.5 (half-step)", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2023-04-01", "hourly": 47.18, "weekly": 1761.39, "annual": 91944.3 } ] }, { "id": "b-6", "label": "Step 4", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2023-04-01", "hourly": 48.26, "weekly": 1801.71, "annual": 94049 } ] }, { "id": "b-7", "label": "Step 4.5 (half-step)", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2023-04-01", "hourly": 49.89, "weekly": 1862.56, "annual": 97225.55 } ] }, { "id": "b-8", "label": "Step 5", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2023-04-01", "hourly": 51.51, "weekly": 1923.04, "annual": 100382.6 } ] }, { "id": "b-9", "label": "Step 5.5 (half-step)", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2023-04-01", "hourly": 51.98, "weekly": 1940.58, "annual": 101298.53 } ] }, { "id": "b-10", "label": "Step 6", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2023-04-01", "hourly": 52.44, "weekly": 1957.76, "annual": 102194.98 } ] } ] }, { "title": "Registered Nurse (Nurse C)", "description": "The highest-rated registered nurse positions under the Position Evaluation Tool.", "grade": "Nurse C", "payPoints": [ { "id": "c-1", "label": "Step 1", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2023-04-01", "hourly": 45.83, "weekly": 1710.99, "annual": 89313.42 } ] }, { "id": "c-2", "label": "Step 2", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2023-04-01", "hourly": 47.98, "weekly": 1791.25, "annual": 93503.34 } ] }, { "id": "c-3", "label": "Step 2.5 (half-step)", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2023-04-01", "hourly": 49.1, "weekly": 1833.07, "annual": 95685.99 } ] }, { "id": "c-4", "label": "Step 3", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2023-04-01", "hourly": 50.21, "weekly": 1874.5, "annual": 97849.16 } ] }, { "id": "c-5", "label": "Step 3.5 (half-step)", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2023-04-01", "hourly": 51.39, "weekly": 1918.56, "annual": 100148.74 } ] }, { "id": "c-6", "label": "Step 4", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2023-04-01", "hourly": 52.57, "weekly": 1962.61, "annual": 102448.32 } ] }, { "id": "c-7", "label": "Step 4.5 (half-step)", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2023-04-01", "hourly": 54.36, "weekly": 2029.44, "annual": 105936.67 } ] }, { "id": "c-8", "label": "Step 5", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2023-04-01", "hourly": 56.14, "weekly": 2095.89, "annual": 109405.53 } ] } ] }, { "title": "Nurse Practitioner", "grade": "NP", "payPoints": [ { "id": "np-1", "label": "Step 1", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2023-04-01", "hourly": 52.59, "weekly": 1963.36, "annual": 102487.3 } ] }, { "id": "np-2", "label": "Step 2", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2023-04-01", "hourly": 54.73, "weekly": 2043.25, "annual": 106657.73 } ] }, { "id": "np-3", "label": "Step 2.5 (half-step)", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2023-04-01", "hourly": 55.85, "weekly": 2085.06, "annual": 108840.38 } ] }, { "id": "np-4", "label": "Step 3", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2023-04-01", "hourly": 56.97, "weekly": 2126.88, "annual": 111023.04 } ] }, { "id": "np-5", "label": "Step 3.5 (half-step)", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2023-04-01", "hourly": 58.16, "weekly": 2171.3, "annual": 113342.11 } ] }, { "id": "np-6", "label": "Step 4", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2023-04-01", "hourly": 59.34, "weekly": 2215.36, "annual": 115641.69 } ] }, { "id": "np-7", "label": "Step 4.5 (half-step)", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2023-04-01", "hourly": 61.13, "weekly": 2282.18, "annual": 119130.04 } ] }, { "id": "np-8", "label": "Step 5", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2023-04-01", "hourly": 62.91, "weekly": 2348.64, "annual": 122598.9 } ] } ] }, { "title": "Graduate Nurse", "description": "Graduate nurse awaiting registration (one rate).", "grade": "Grad.", "payPoints": [ { "id": "gn-1", "label": "Rate", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2023-04-01", "hourly": 33.3, "weekly": 1243.2, "annual": 64894.98 } ] } ] } ], "allowances": [ { "name": "Shift Differential", "description": "On 8-hour and shorter shifts, every hour of a shift when most of it falls between 15:00 and 08:00. On 12-hour and 10-hour shift options, each hour or part-hour worked between 15:00 and 08:00. Not paid on overtime. Art 14.01", "unit": "Per Hour", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2018-04-01", "amount": 3.75 } ] }, { "name": "Weekend Differential", "description": "Each hour worked from 00:01 Saturday to midnight Sunday, on top of the shift differential. Not paid where a consecutive-weekend premium is paid. Art 14.02", "unit": "Per Hour", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2018-04-01", "amount": 3.1 } ] }, { "name": "Charge Pay", "description": "Designated in charge of a ward, unit or facility when no supervisor is on duty or available. In addition to all other pay. Art 9.01", "unit": "Per Hour", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2018-04-01", "amount": 2 } ] }, { "name": "Temporary Supervisor", "description": "Relieving a supervisor absent for more than 3 working days: 5.5% on your hourly rate, never less than charge pay. Art 10.01", "unit": "Per Hour", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2018-04-01", "amount": "+5.5%" } ] }, { "name": "Preceptor", "description": "Assigned hours preceptoring a student in a formal clinical practicum, where it isn't part of your regular job. Art 60.05", "unit": "Per Hour", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2018-04-01", "amount": 0.65 } ] }, { "name": "Stand-By: Working Day", "description": "Each hour on stand-by on a regular working day, at least 8 hours. A call-back is paid as overtime, at least 2 hours. Art 12.03(a), 12.04", "unit": "Per Hour", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2018-04-01", "amount": 3.15 } ] }, { "name": "Stand-By: Holiday or Day Off", "description": "Each hour on stand-by on a statutory holiday or a day you're not scheduled to work, at least 8 hours. Art 12.03(b)", "unit": "Per Hour", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2018-04-01", "amount": 4.25 } ] }, { "name": "Education: Course or Diploma", "description": "An approved post-graduate course, or a one-year university diploma in nursing. Highest qualification only, on all paid hours, once probation is over. Art 36", "unit": "Per Hour", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2018-04-01", "amount": 0.17 } ] }, { "name": "Education: Baccalaureate (Nurse A or B)", "description": "A nursing degree in a Nurse A or Nurse B position. Art 36.01", "unit": "Per Hour", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2018-04-01", "amount": 0.21 } ] }, { "name": "Education: Baccalaureate (Nurse C)", "description": "A nursing degree in a Nurse C position. Art 36.01", "unit": "Per Hour", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2018-04-01", "amount": 0.45 } ] }, { "name": "Education: Master's Degree", "description": "A master's degree that applies to your position. Art 36.01", "unit": "Per Hour", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2018-04-01", "amount": 0.64 } ] }, { "name": "Long Service Recognition", "description": "Added to your step rate after 20 years of employment in the bargaining unit. The wage schedule prints its own long-service table, which compounds year on year, so a few figures differ by a cent from the base rate plus 2% — the printed figure is the one paid. Schedule A", "unit": "Per Hour", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2018-04-01", "amount": "+2%" } ] }, { "name": "Northern Allowance: La Loche Area", "description": "La Loche, Île-à-la-Crosse, Pinehouse, Sandy Bay and Buffalo Narrows. Pro rata below full time. Art 55.10", "unit": "Per Fortnight", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2018-04-01", "amount": 225 } ] }, { "name": "Northern Allowance: Cumberland House Area", "description": "Cumberland House, Beauval, Creighton and Green Lake. Pro rata below full time. Art 55.10", "unit": "Per Fortnight", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2018-04-01", "amount": 141 } ] }, { "name": "Northern Allowance: La Ronge", "description": "Pro rata below full time. Art 55.10", "unit": "Per Fortnight", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2018-04-01", "amount": 94 } ] }, { "name": "Northern Retention Payment", "description": "Paid each year on your hiring anniversary in the northern communities, by community: La Loche $4,200; Île-à-la-Crosse, Pinehouse and Sandy Bay $4,000; Buffalo Narrows $3,650; Cumberland House $3,300; Beauval $2,500; Creighton and Green Lake $2,000; La Ronge $1,900. Art 55.11", "unit": "Per Year", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2018-04-01", "amount": "$1,900–$4,200" } ] }, { "name": "Vehicle Allowance", "description": "When a vehicle is a condition of employment, on top of the per-kilometre rate. Part-time and casual nurses get it pro rata per day used. Art 13.01(c)", "unit": "Per Month", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2018-04-01", "amount": 185 } ] } ], "penalties": [ { "name": "Overtime", "rate": "200%", "description": "Double time for all overtime, with no time-and-a-half step: beyond your daily hours (8, 10.1 or 11.78) or your biweekly or averaging-period hours. Art 8.02" }, { "name": "Overtime on a Statutory Holiday", "rate": "200%", "description": "Double time, not double time on top of the holiday rate. Art 8.05" }, { "name": "Statutory Holiday Worked", "rate": "150%", "description": "Hours worked on the holiday's own calendar day. Full-timers also get a paid day off (an 8-hour day, even on 12-hour rosters); part-timers and casuals get holiday pay worked out from their recent hours. Easter Sunday is a holiday here; Easter Monday isn't. Art 16" }, { "name": "Scheduled Day Off Worked", "rate": "200%", "description": "Working a scheduled day off, a scheduled stat day off, a shift the employer changed from the posted schedule, or being called back from vacation. Art 7.03(e), 7.17, 15.11, 16.10" }, { "name": "Call-Back", "rate": "200%", "description": "Recalled to work, on stand-by or not: paid at overtime rates, at least 2 hours. Art 7.15, 12.04" }, { "name": "Casual Vacation Pay", "rate": "5.77%–11.54%", "description": "Vacation pay for part-time and casual nurses is 3/52 to 6/52 of gross earnings by years of service. Casuals can choose to have it paid on every cheque. There is no percentage in lieu of benefits. Art 15.02, 15.04(b), 37.07" } ], "notes": [ "The agreement expired on 31 March 2024 and stays in force while SUN and SAHO bargain a new one. As at October 2026 there is no settlement, so the 1 April 2023 rates are current. A new agreement may back-date increases.", "Full-time hours average 224 every 6 weeks (80 a fortnight, less any additional days off), and a full-time year is 1,948.8 paid hours. A 12-hour shift pays 11.78 hours; a 10-hour shift pays 10.1.", "Nurse A is the general staff RN and RPN level; Nurse B and Nurse C are higher-rated positions set by the SAHO/SUN Position Evaluation Tool. Nurse A and B have six steps, Nurse C and nurse practitioners five, and graduate nurses one rate.", "Full-timers move up a step each year on their employment anniversary. Part-timers and casuals reach Step 2 after 1,948.8 hours or 12 months, whichever is later. From Step 2 they move half a step after 974.4 hours or one year, whichever is later, and to the full step after a further 974.4 hours, which is what the half-step columns are for (Art 64.06).", "The agreement covers registered nurses, registered psychiatric nurses, nurse practitioners and graduate nurses with the Saskatchewan Health Authority and affiliated employers. Licensed practical nurses are on separate CUPE, SEIU-West or SGEU agreements.", "Source: SUN–SAHO Collective Agreement 2018–2024 and the SAHO/SUN Wage Schedule, published by the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses — https://sun-nurses.sk.ca/pub/docs/contracts-and-bargaining/collective-agreements/SUN-SAHO%20CBA%202018-2024%20SAHO_Final%20-%20for%20Web.pdf (wage schedule: https://sun-nurses.sk.ca/pub/docs/contracts-and-bargaining/collective-agreements/SAHO%20SUN%20Wage%20Schedule%20%28April%201%202018%20to%20March%2031%202024%29.pdf; bargaining status: https://sun-nurses.sk.ca/about-us/newswire/negotiations-update-19)" ] } ] }