{ "name": "New South Wales paramedic wage rates", "profession": "Paramedics", "professionCode": "paramedics", "code": "nsw", "region": "New South Wales", "country": "Australia", "currency": "AUD", "pageUrl": "https://myrosterapp.com.au/wages/paramedics/nsw/", "dataUrl": "https://myrosterapp.com.au/wages/paramedics/nsw/data.json", "catalogUrl": "https://myrosterapp.com.au/wages/data.json", "publisher": "MyRoster", "publisherUrl": "https://myrosterapp.com.au", "lastModified": "2026-09-06", "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 award / enterprise 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 — penalties, allowances and overtime are listed separately.", "app": { "name": "MyRoster", "description": "MyRoster calculates take-home pay for shift workers from these rates — penalties, allowances, overtime, tax and super — on iOS and Android.", "website": "https://myrosterapp.com.au" }, "agreements": [ { "agreementName": "NSW Ambulance Paramedics (State) Award 2023 (Award Code 008)", "agreementStatus": "Current (nominal expiry 30 June 2026)", "datasetCode": "nsw", "region": "New South Wales", "country": "Australia", "currency": "AUD", "fullTimeHoursPerWeek": 38, "weeksPerYear": 52.16666667, "sourceFrequency": "weekly", "effectiveDates": [ "2025-07-01" ], "sourceUrls": [ "https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/careers/conditions/Awards/ambos-paramedics.pdf" ], "roles": [ { "title": "Trainee Paramedic", "description": "Full-time weekly base rate while undertaking initial training before commencing the on-road internship.", "grade": "Trainee & Intern", "payPoints": [ { "id": "trainee-1", "label": "Increment 1", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-07-01", "weekly": 1396.13, "hourly": 36.74, "annual": 72831.45 } ] } ] }, { "title": "Paramedic Intern", "description": "Full-time weekly base rate during the supervised internship leading to qualification as a Paramedic.", "grade": "Trainee & Intern", "payPoints": [ { "id": "intern-2", "label": "Increment 2", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-07-01", "weekly": 1587.2, "hourly": 41.77, "annual": 82798.93 } ] } ] }, { "title": "Paramedic", "description": "Full-time weekly base rate for qualified Paramedics, progressing through six increments with service; shift penalties and allowances are paid on top.", "grade": "Paramedic", "payPoints": [ { "id": "para-1", "label": "Increment 1", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-07-01", "weekly": 1688.68, "hourly": 44.44, "annual": 88092.81 } ] }, { "id": "para-2", "label": "Increment 2", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-07-01", "weekly": 1739.37, "hourly": 45.77, "annual": 90737.14 } ] }, { "id": "para-3", "label": "Increment 3", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-07-01", "weekly": 1790.05, "hourly": 47.11, "annual": 93380.94 } ] }, { "id": "para-4", "label": "Increment 4", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-07-01", "weekly": 1840.72, "hourly": 48.44, "annual": 96024.23 } ] }, { "id": "para-5", "label": "Increment 5", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-07-01", "weekly": 1891.39, "hourly": 49.77, "annual": 98667.51 } ] }, { "id": "para-6", "label": "Increment 6", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-07-01", "weekly": 1942.06, "hourly": 51.11, "annual": 101310.8 } ] } ] }, { "title": "Paramedic Specialist", "description": "Full-time weekly base rate for the Paramedic Specialist classification, three increments; the Triage Clinician (Paramedic Specialist) title is also paid at these rates.", "grade": "Paramedic", "payPoints": [ { "id": "spec-1", "label": "Increment 1", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-07-01", "weekly": 2077.94, "hourly": 54.68, "annual": 108399.2 } ] }, { "id": "spec-2", "label": "Increment 2", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-07-01", "weekly": 2140.28, "hourly": 56.32, "annual": 111651.27 } ] }, { "id": "spec-3", "label": "Increment 3", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-07-01", "weekly": 2204.49, "hourly": 58.01, "annual": 115000.9 } ] } ] }, { "title": "Critical Care Paramedic (Aeromedical)", "description": "Full-time weekly base rate for Critical Care Paramedics in the aeromedical service, two increments.", "grade": "Aeromedical & Critical Care", "payPoints": [ { "id": "ccp-1", "label": "Increment 1", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-07-01", "weekly": 2330.75, "hourly": 61.34, "annual": 121587.46 } ] }, { "id": "ccp-2", "label": "Increment 2", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-07-01", "weekly": 2391.13, "hourly": 62.92, "annual": 124737.28 } ] } ] }, { "title": "Critical Care Paramedic (Aeromedical) Team Leader", "description": "Full-time weekly base rate for the aeromedical Critical Care Paramedic team-leader role.", "grade": "Aeromedical & Critical Care", "payPoints": [ { "id": "ccp-tl-1", "label": "Increment 1", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-07-01", "weekly": 2510.75, "hourly": 66.07, "annual": 130977.46 } ] } ] }, { "title": "Aeromedical Control Centre Officer", "description": "Full-time weekly base rate for officers coordinating aeromedical operations from the control centre.", "grade": "Aeromedical & Critical Care", "payPoints": [ { "id": "acco-1", "label": "Increment 1", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-07-01", "weekly": 2530.37, "hourly": 66.59, "annual": 132000.97 } ] } ] }, { "title": "Clinical Training Officer", "description": "Full-time weekly base rate for Clinical Training Officers.", "grade": "Education", "payPoints": [ { "id": "cto-1", "label": "Increment 1", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-07-01", "weekly": 2491.25, "hourly": 65.56, "annual": 129960.21 } ] } ] }, { "title": "Paramedic Educator", "description": "Full-time weekly base rate for Paramedic Educators, two increments.", "grade": "Education", "payPoints": [ { "id": "educ-1", "label": "Increment 1", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-07-01", "weekly": 2984.79, "hourly": 78.55, "annual": 155706.55 } ] }, { "id": "educ-2", "label": "Increment 2", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-07-01", "weekly": 3187.25, "hourly": 83.88, "annual": 166268.21 } ] } ] }, { "title": "Team Leader", "description": "Full-time weekly base rate at Management Level 1; the VCCC Clinical Team Leader and Clinical Support Paramedic titles are also paid at this rate.", "grade": "Management", "payPoints": [ { "id": "mgmt-1", "label": "Management Level 1", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-07-01", "weekly": 2278.66, "hourly": 59.96, "annual": 118870.1 } ] } ] }, { "title": "Station Manager", "description": "Full-time weekly base rate at Management Level 2.", "grade": "Management", "payPoints": [ { "id": "mgmt-2", "label": "Management Level 2", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-07-01", "weekly": 2365.63, "hourly": 62.25, "annual": 123407.03 } ] } ] }, { "title": "District Manager", "description": "Full-time weekly base rate at Management Level 3, the highest classification in this award.", "grade": "Management", "payPoints": [ { "id": "mgmt-3", "label": "Management Level 3", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-07-01", "weekly": 2452.35, "hourly": 64.54, "annual": 127930.93 } ] } ] } ], "allowances": [ { "name": "Specialist Operations Allowance (cl 12(a))", "description": "All-purpose allowance — treated as part of the base rate for all award purposes.", "unit": "Per week", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-07-01", "amount": 111.5 } ] }, { "name": "Technical Operations Allowance (cl 13(a))", "description": "All-purpose allowance.", "unit": "Per week", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-07-01", "amount": 63.4 } ] }, { "name": "Rescue (Standby) Allowance (cl 13(b))", "description": "All-purpose allowance.", "unit": "Per week", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-07-01", "amount": 21.7 } ] }, { "name": "Control Centre (Standby) Allowance (cl 14(a))", "unit": "Per week", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-07-01", "amount": 33 } ] }, { "name": "Control Centre Allowance (cl 14(b))", "description": "All-purpose allowance for staff employed at Clinical Levels 1-2 or Management Levels 1-4.", "unit": "Per week", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-07-01", "amount": 130 } ] }, { "name": "Duty Control Centre Air Ambulance — Transitional (cl 14)", "description": "Only for officers employed as Air Ambulance Co-ordination Officers as at 6 February 1998.", "unit": "Per week", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-07-01", "amount": 20 } ] }, { "name": "On Call Allowance — daily (cl 26)", "description": "Recall while on call attracts a minimum 4 hours at overtime rates (see Penalties).", "unit": "Per 24 hours", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-07-01", "amount": 30.4 } ] }, { "name": "On Call Allowance — weekly (cl 26)", "unit": "Per week", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-07-01", "amount": 122 } ] }, { "name": "Living Away From Home — Tier 1 (cl 17)", "description": "Fixed at its 1 July 2023 value — the award excludes this allowance from wage increases.", "unit": "Per day", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2023-07-01", "amount": 142.15 } ] }, { "name": "Living Away From Home — Tier 2 (cl 17)", "description": "Fixed at its 1 July 2023 value — not subject to award wage increases.", "unit": "Per day", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2023-07-01", "amount": 131.45 } ] }, { "name": "Climatic and Isolation Allowance — Time and a Half Zone (cl 15)", "description": "Fixed at its 1 July 2023 value — not subject to award wage increases.", "unit": "Per week", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2023-07-01", "amount": 5.5 } ] }, { "name": "Climatic and Isolation Allowance — Double Zone (cl 15)", "description": "Fixed at its 1 July 2023 value — not subject to award wage increases.", "unit": "Per week", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2023-07-01", "amount": 10.9 } ] }, { "name": "Travelling Meal Allowance (cl 17)", "description": "Fixed at its 1 July 2023 value — not subject to award wage increases.", "unit": "Per meal", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2023-07-01", "amount": 33.25 } ] }, { "name": "Meal Away from Station (cl 17)", "description": "Fixed at its 1 July 2023 value — not subject to award wage increases.", "unit": "Per meal", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2023-07-01", "amount": 33.25 } ] }, { "name": "Crib Away from Station (cl 17(c)(ii))", "description": "Fixed at its 1 July 2023 value — not subject to award wage increases.", "unit": "Per occasion", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2023-07-01", "amount": 16.63 } ] }, { "name": "Overtime Meal Allowance (cl 27)", "description": "Fixed at its 1 July 2023 value — not subject to award wage increases.", "unit": "Per meal", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2023-07-01", "amount": 33.25 } ] }, { "name": "Laundry Allowance (cl 42)", "description": "Fixed at its 1 July 2023 value — not subject to award wage increases.", "unit": "Per week", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2023-07-01", "amount": 15.7 } ] }, { "name": "Ambulance Studies Certificate Allowance (cl 5)", "description": "Current recipients only. Fixed at its 1 July 2023 value — not subject to award wage increases.", "unit": "Per week", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2023-07-01", "amount": 31.2 } ] } ], "penalties": [ { "name": "Afternoon Shift — early start (cl 30)", "rate": "10%", "description": "Shift commencing at or after 10:00 am and before 1:00 pm." }, { "name": "Afternoon Shift (cl 30)", "rate": "12.5%", "description": "Shift commencing at or after 1:00 pm and before 4:00 pm." }, { "name": "Night Shift (cl 30)", "rate": "15%", "description": "Shift commencing at or after 4:00 pm and before 4:00 am." }, { "name": "Night Shift — early morning start (cl 30)", "rate": "10%", "description": "Shift commencing at or after 4:00 am and before 6:00 am." }, { "name": "Saturday (cl 31)", "rate": "50%", "description": "Ordinary hours between midnight Friday and midnight Saturday — time and a half. Replaces (does not stack with) the afternoon/night shift penalties." }, { "name": "Sunday (cl 31)", "rate": "75%", "description": "Ordinary hours between midnight Saturday and midnight Sunday — time and three-quarters. Replaces the afternoon/night shift penalties." }, { "name": "Public Holiday — shift worker (cl 32)", "rate": "150%", "description": "Time actually worked on a public holiday is paid at double time and a half in total (+150% on the ordinary rate). Shift penalties do not apply on public holidays." }, { "name": "Public Holiday — day worker (cl 32)", "rate": "50%", "description": "Rostered hours worked on a public holiday are paid at time and a half, in addition to ordinary weekly pay." }, { "name": "Overtime (cl 27-29)", "rate": "150% / 200%", "description": "All time beyond rostered hours: time and a half for the first 2 hours, double time thereafter — including overtime on Saturdays and Sundays. Time off in lieu may be taken instead (within 3 months, 38-hour accrual cap)." }, { "name": "Overtime on a Public Holiday (cl 27)", "rate": "250%", "description": "Double time and a half for any overtime worked on a public holiday." }, { "name": "Recall while On Call (cl 26)", "rate": "Min 4 hrs at OT rates", "description": "Each recall attracts a minimum 4 hours at overtime rates (2 hours for residents of one-officer branch stations), unless a further call merges with the first or runs into the next rostered shift." }, { "name": "Casual Loading", "rate": "10%", "description": "Flat 10% loading on the hourly rate, with a minimum 2-hour payment per engagement." } ], "notes": [ "These figures are the full-time weekly base rate in Australian dollars, effective from the first full pay period on or after 1 July 2025.", "No 1 July 2026 increase has been gazetted for this award — NSW Health's general HSU pay increases for 2025 and 2026 explicitly exclude paramedics — so the 1 July 2025 rates remain current until the NSW Industrial Relations Commission gazettes a new variation.", "Ordinary full-time hours are 38 per week. Part-time employees are paid an hourly rate of 1/38th of the relevant weekly rate; casuals receive that hourly rate plus a 10% loading.", "The award covers NSW Ambulance paramedics from Trainee Paramedic through to District Manager (Management Level 3). Titles added by 2025-26 variations — VCCC Triage Clinician (Paramedic), Triage Clinician (Paramedic Specialist), VCCC Clinical Team Leader and Clinical Support Paramedic — are paid at the existing Paramedic, Paramedic Specialist and Team Leader (Management Level 1) rates.", "Instead of a flat annual-leave loading, the award varies the leave entitlement itself: day workers receive 4 weeks on full pay, shift workers not required to work public holidays receive 5 weeks, shift workers required to work public holidays receive 5 weeks paid at 7 weeks' pay (or, once paramedic-qualified, 6 weeks paid at 8 weeks' pay).", "Allowances shown with a 2023 rate (Living Away From Home, Climatic & Isolation, the meal and crib allowances, Laundry, and the Ambulance Studies Certificate allowance) are fixed by the award at their 1 July 2023 values — the award excludes them from wage increases, so those figures are current, not out of date.", "Source: NSW Ambulance Paramedics (State) Award 2023 (Award Code 008), NSW Industrial Relations Commission — https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/careers/conditions/Awards/ambos-paramedics.pdf" ] } ] }