Northern Territory

Paramedic pay — current classifications, rates, penalties & allowances

Enterprise Agreement

St John Ambulance Australia (NT) Inc. Ambulance Enterprise Agreement 2022-2025 (AE515933)

Current (nominal expiry 30 June 2025 — continues in force)

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Roles & Wages

Role	Pay Point	July 2024
Intern Paramedic Base annual salary for the intern year before appointment as a Qualified Paramedic.	Intern	$109,404.32
Qualified Paramedic Base annual salary, stepped by years of service. Shift loadings of 15-100% apply on top for afternoon, night and weekend shifts.	Years 0-2	$113,308.24
	Years 2-3	$115,392.13
	Years 3+	$117,013.44
	Years 5+	$119,196.83
Intensive Care Paramedic Base annual salary for Intensive Care Paramedics, stepped by years of service at ICP level.	Years 0-2	$127,798.42
	Years 2+	$143,810.43
	Years 5+	$161,840.37
Patient Transport Officer Base annual salary, stepped by year of service.	Year 1	$87,106.57
	Year 2	$90,977.77
	Year 3	$94,848.17
Emergency Medical Dispatch Officer Composite annual rate as published in the agreement — the roster allowance is rolled in, and clause 30.3 shift loadings do not apply to EMDs.	Trainee	$84,380.59
	EMD 1	$94,250.57
	EMD 2	$101,346.76
	EMD 3	$107,018.69
Call Taker Composite annual rate as published in the agreement.	Composite Rate	$89,315.68

Showing annual salary rates

Allowances

Allowance	Unit	July 2022	July 2023	July 2024
Roster Allowance (cl 44.2) Employees on a fixed roster with regular night shift; paid in place of the clause 30.3 shift loadings. Not indexed — flat across all three years of the agreement.	% of salary	32.4%	32.4%	32.4%
Northern Territory Allowance (cl 44.10) Flat rate — excluded from the annual 2.5% allowance increases.	Per fortnight	$36.92	$36.92	$36.92
Remote Area Allowance (cl 44.9)	Per fortnight	$405.48	$415.62	$426.01
Remote Area Allowance — accommodation provided (cl 44.9)	Per fortnight	$180.22	$184.73	$189.35
Preceptor Allowance (cl 44.5)	Per shift	$15.12	$15.50	$15.89
Tennant Creek/Nhulunbuy Allowance — Intern (cl 44.3-44.4) Locality roster allowance for Tennant Creek and Nhulunbuy postings; paid instead of the on-call allowance and shift loadings.	Per fortnight	$969.26	$993.49	$1,018.33
Tennant Creek/Nhulunbuy Allowance — Para Years 0-2 (cl 44.3-44.4)	Per fortnight	$1,052.23	$1,078.54	$1,105.50
Tennant Creek/Nhulunbuy Allowance — Para Years 2-3 (cl 44.3-44.4)	Per fortnight	$1,072.69	$1,099.51	$1,127.00
Tennant Creek/Nhulunbuy Allowance — Para Years 3+ (cl 44.3-44.4)	Per fortnight	$1,088.31	$1,115.52	$1,143.41
Tennant Creek/Nhulunbuy Allowance — Para Years 5+ (cl 44.3-44.4)	Per fortnight	$1,088.59	$1,115.80	$1,143.70
Tennant Creek/Nhulunbuy Allowance — ICP Years 0-2 (cl 44.3-44.4)	Per fortnight	$1,227.87	$1,258.57	$1,290.03
Tennant Creek/Nhulunbuy Allowance — ICP Years 2-3 (cl 44.3-44.4)	Per fortnight	$1,381.92	$1,416.47	$1,451.88
Tennant Creek/Nhulunbuy Allowance — ICP Years 5+ (cl 44.3-44.4)	Per fortnight	$1,555.25	$1,594.13	$1,633.98
Meal Allowance — on shift (cl 44.6)	Per meal	$29.77	$30.51	$31.27
Travel Allowance — accommodation (cl 44.8)	Per day	$97.16	$99.59	$102.08
Travel Allowance — camping (cl 44.8)	Per day	$149.96	$153.71	$157.55
Travel Allowance — breakfast (cl 44.8)	Per meal	$22.54	$23.10	$23.68
Travel Allowance — lunch (cl 44.8)	Per meal	$30.49	$31.25	$32.03
Travel Allowance — dinner (cl 44.8)	Per meal	$39.44	$40.43	$41.44
Living Away From Home Allowance (cl 44.7) Flat rate — excluded from the annual 2.5% allowance increases.	Per week	$449.04	$449.04	$449.04

Penalty Rates

Afternoon Shift Loading (cl 30.3)+15%

Ordinary hours on a shift finishing after 8pm and not later than midnight, paid as base rate plus the loading. Shift loadings do not apply to EMDs or to employees receiving the Roster or Tennant Creek/Nhulunbuy allowances.

Night Shift Loading (cl 30.3)+15%

Shift commencing at or after 6pm and before 6am, paid as base rate plus the loading.

Regular Afternoon Shift Loading (cl 30.3)+20%

A Monday-Friday afternoon shift that does not rotate with other shifts; permanent appointments only.

Saturday Shift Loading (cl 30.3)+50%

Ordinary hours worked on a Saturday, paid as base rate plus the loading.

Sunday Shift Loading (cl 30.3)+100%

Ordinary hours worked on a Sunday, paid as base rate plus the loading.

Public Holiday (cl 46.3)250% total

Work on a public holiday is paid at 2.5 times the base rate in total. Does not apply to EMDs or casuals, who have their own public-holiday provisions.

Overtime (cl 34.3)200%

All overtime is paid at double time (full-time, part-time and fixed/maximum-term employees). Casuals move onto overtime rates after 76 hours in a fortnightly pay cycle.

Recall while on-call (cl 32.7)200%

Called out for duty while on-call: double time with a minimum payment of 2 hours per call-out.

On-Call Allowance — Monday to Friday (cl 32.3)15% of hourly rate

Percentage of the base hourly rate while rostered on-call. Not payable to Tennant Creek/Nhulunbuy employees receiving the locality allowance.

On-Call Allowance — Saturday (cl 32.3)20% of hourly rate

On-Call Allowance — Sunday (cl 32.3)30% of hourly rate

On-Call Allowance — public holiday (cl 32.3)37.5% of hourly rate

Casual Loading — weekdays (cl 23.9)125%

Casuals are paid the agreement hourly rate plus a 25% loading for weekday work. Casual loadings are paid instead of any allowance, weekend or public-holiday penalty rate.

Casual Loading — Saturday and Sunday (cl 23.9)175%

Hourly rate plus a 75% loading for all weekend work.

Casual Loading — public holidays (cl 23.9)200%

Hourly rate plus a 100% loading for all public-holiday work.

Notes

•These figures are the annual base salary in Australian dollars, effective from the first full pay period on or after 1 July 2024 — the final of three 2.5% increases the agreement delivered from 1 July 2022, 1 July 2023 and 1 July 2024. The two earlier salary tranches are not shown; allowances list all three dated tranches.
•The agreement passed its nominal expiry on 30 June 2025, but under the Fair Work Act it continues to operate until replaced or terminated. No successor agreement had been lodged as of July 2026, so these remain the current operative rates.
•St John Ambulance Australia (NT) is the contracted provider of the Northern Territory ambulance service, and this agreement is the sole pay instrument for NT paramedics, patient transport officers, emergency medical dispatchers and call takers — there is no separate government ambulance award.
•Ordinary full-time hours are based on a 76-hour fortnight (an average of 38 hours per week). Overtime is paid at double time.
•Emergency Medical Dispatch Officer and Call Taker figures are composite rates as published in the agreement — the roster allowance is rolled in, and shift loadings do not apply to EMDs.
•Shift loadings are paid on top of the base rate, but where more than one loading, penalty or overtime rate would apply to the same hours, only the single highest-value benefit is paid (cl 31). Employees on a fixed roster with regular night shift receive the 32.4% Roster Allowance in place of shift loadings.
•Casual employees are paid the agreement hourly rate plus a loading of 25% on weekdays, 75% on weekends and 100% on public holidays (shown under Penalties), paid instead of allowances and penalty rates.
•Allowances rose by 2.5% on 1 July each year of the agreement, except the Roster Allowance, Northern Territory Allowance and Living Away From Home Allowance, which stay flat across all three years.
•Source: St John Ambulance Australia (NT) Inc. Ambulance Enterprise Agreement 2022-2025 (AE515933), Fair Work Commission — https://www.fwc.gov.au/documents/agreements/approved/ae515933.pdf