Queensland Paramedic Wages

Premium on the ordinary base hourly rate for each hour of a shift finishing after 6pm and at or before midnight (after 7pm for 12-hour shifts). Not paid on shifts that attract weekend, public-holiday or overtime rates.

Premium on the ordinary base hourly rate for each hour of a shift finishing after midnight and at or before 8am. Not paid on shifts that attract weekend, public-holiday or overtime rates.

All ordinary time worked between midnight Friday and midnight Saturday.

All ordinary time worked between midnight Saturday and midnight Sunday.

Minimum 4 hours, for employees not receiving the additional annual-leave entitlement.

Minimum 4 hours, for employees receiving the additional annual-leave entitlement; Easter Sunday is paid at 250% for these employees (cl 51.5).

Time-and-a-half in addition to a full day's wage for the public holiday.

All work performed between 6pm and midnight on 24 December.

The usual Saturday/Sunday rate plus a premium of 50% of an ordinary day's wage.

All work outside normal rostered hours for shift workers and employees performing regular on-call (Levels 1-5). Recall to duty carries a 2-hour minimum (cl 29.1.2).

Time-and-a-half for the first 3 hours of overtime on any day, then double time. All overtime on Saturdays, Sundays or rostered days off is flat double time (cl 29.1.1(d)); public-holiday overtime follows the parent award.

A 10-consecutive-hour break is required between shifts; if directed to work without it, double time applies until released, plus an additional 50% of ordinary time when the breach occurs on a Sunday.

Per hour of on-call duty, minimum 10 hours per on-call period, Levels 1-5 only; no more than 10 on-call days in any continuous two-week period. On Category 2/3 rosters this is substituted by the Aggregated Allowance.

Minimum 2 hours when called out while on-call, counted from acknowledging the call to returning home, and paid even if the job is cancelled before attendance.

Minimum 1 hour for Level 4-5 employees performing approved duties (e.g. coordination or welfare calls) without leaving home.

A 24-hour combination of duty and on-call on a rostered day off: minimum 10 hours at the overtime rate, remaining hours at 30% of the hourly base rate, with call-outs paid at the overtime rate.

Flat roster loading (23%, 26.5%, 28%, 29.5% or 36.5% per Schedule 5) for employees regularly rostered on weekends whose penalties reach at least 15% of the fortnightly base rate. Paid in place of weekend penalties, afternoon/night shift penalties and, on Category 2/3 rosters, the on-call allowance; the 36.5% tier applies only to Category 2/3 stations.

Elected by an Officer in Charge required to perform unlimited hours, instead of on-call and call-back. Covers the first 4 call-outs or 8 hours of overtime plus casualty-room cases each fortnight, and is paid on sick, annual and long service leave.

Approved Level 4 and 5 positions working ordinary hours flexibly over a 24-hour, 7-day span. Not payable alongside the Aggregated Allowance, the Unlimited Hours Loading or actual penalty payments.

From 1 March 2026: for each full ordinary hour of a night shift actually worked (minimum 4 hours of the rostered shift), all employees including casuals and part-timers receive 5% of the ordinary base hourly rate of Level 2 Band 2 Increment 5 — a fixed reference rate, not the employee's own rate. Standalone: it stacks with the Aggregated Allowance, penalties and Flexibility Allowance, but is not paid on overtime, on-call, call-back or leave.

Per fortnight of ordinary hours worked at a Category 2 or 3 station: 5% of the ordinary base fortnightly rate of Level 2 Band 2 Increment 5. Pro-rata for part-time employees and for casuals relieving at such stations; not paid on overtime, on-call, call-back or unpaid leave.

Suitably qualified and authorised Isolated Practice Area Paramedics at an IPAP-approved location, calculated on the base rate of an Advanced Care Paramedic.

Emergency Medical Dispatchers and Operations Centre Supervisors who elect to start 15 minutes early for a non-overlapping console handover are paid 15 minutes of ordinary time at a fixed reference rate (EMDs: Level 1 Increment 8; OCS/Senior OCS: Level 4 Band 2 Increment 3), irrespective of their own classification. Not payable alongside overtime for the same period.

Casual employees receive a 25% loading on the ordinary rate for the class of work, plus overtime, penalty rates and public-holiday payment. The loading is not paid on top of Sunday or public-holiday double-time rates.