4Cyte Pathology Pay Rates 2026: Collector, Lab & Support Staff Pay

4Cyte Pathology is an independent pathology network running collection centres and laboratories across New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria. Its workforce includes collectors who take samples at collection centres, laboratory scientists and technicians who process and test them, and administrative staff supporting referring doctors.

The Health Professionals and Support Services Award 2020 is the floor for collection and laboratory roles. Our corpus holds no current 4Cyte Pathology enterprise agreement, so the award tables below are what should be on the payslip.

The federal awards relevant to 4Cyte Pathology roles:

• Health Professionals and Support Services Award 2020 (MA000027)

Workforce snapshot. In its 2024-25 report to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency, 4CYTE PATHOLOGY PTY LTD declared 2,171 employees — 70% casual and 75.4% women. Source: WGEA 2025 Public Data File, data.gov.au (CC-BY 3.0 AU).

The Health Professionals and Support Services Award 2020 (MA000027) adult minimums for the roles that sit on it are:

Nurses and midwives are on the Nurses Award 2020 instead — current classification and pay-point figures are on our Nurses Award pay rates page. Weekend, shift and public holiday penalties apply on top of the figures above.

Source: Fair Work Commission modern awards pay database, current-operative rates (1 July 2026 annual wage review). Casual figures add the 25% casual loading.

As at 25 September 2026, our corpus of 14,141 federally registered enterprise agreements holds no current agreement for 4Cyte Pathology. That usually means one of three things: the employer pays on the award (or on individual contracts above it), the agreement covering you is registered under a different entity name (check the employer name on your payslip and search our agreements database), or — for state public-sector employers — pay is set by a state award or agreement outside the federal register. If you have a copy of an agreement that names 4Cyte Pathology, it beats the award figures above.

General award-compliance issues that come up across the pathology sector. This is a checklist for your own payslip, not a finding about 4Cyte Pathology:

• Frozen pay points — increments that should step annually but don't, especially after payroll migrations.
• Stream misclassification — admin, ward-support and collector staff left at Level 1–2 while doing Level 3 work.
• Unpaid handover — clinical and shift handover before and after rostered hours is work time.
• Weekend and night loadings dropped when rosters change or systems are replaced.

Match your payslip to your classification in the agreement (or the award tables above), and price any gap with our back-pay calculator. Raise it in writing with payroll or your manager first — most underpayments are fixed at that step. Unresolved, the Fair Work Ombudsman (13 13 94) recovers underpayments at no cost, up to six years back, and your union can run the claim for you. Not sure which instrument covers you? Ask our AI advisor with your role and location.