Australian Clinical Labs Pay Rates 2026: Collector, Lab & Support Staff Pay

Australian Clinical Labs is a pathology provider running collection centres and laboratories across several states, processing everything from routine blood tests to more complex diagnostic pathology. Its workforce includes collectors, laboratory scientists and technicians, couriers and administrative staff supporting GPs, specialists and hospitals.

The floor for collection and laboratory roles is the Health Professionals and Support Services Award 2020. Our corpus holds enterprise agreements covering some of its state operations (listed below); the award ladder applies wherever no agreement covers your role, and is the minimum any agreement must beat.

The federal awards relevant to Australian Clinical Labs roles:

• Health Professionals and Support Services Award 2020 (MA000027)

Workforce snapshot. In its 2024-25 report to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency, Clinical Laboratories Pty Ltd declared 4,912 employees across 4 reporting entities — 20.6% casual and 79.5% 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.

Enterprise agreements set rates above the award, with their own classification structures and allowances. Current Australian Clinical Labs agreements in our corpus (4 in total):

• Clinical Laboratories (WA) HSUWA and Employee Enterprise Agreement 2024 — approved January 2025, nominal expiry 30 January 2028.
• Clinical Laboratories– South Australian Operations Enterprise Agreement 2023 — approved October 2023, nominal expiry 18 July 2027.
• Australian Clinical Labs (Victoria) Pathology Enterprise Agreement 2025 - 2026 — approved October 2025, nominal expiry 30 September 2026.
• Australian Clinical Labs (Victoria) Pathology Enterprise Agreement 2025 - 2026 — approved October 2025, nominal expiry 30 September 2026.

We don't reproduce agreement dollar figures here — the agreement covering your site, state and stream is the document to read. Find your agreement, then your classification, then your pay point, and compare it with your payslip. The award tables on this page are the floor every one of these agreements must beat.

The patterns worth checking on a Australian Clinical Labs payslip:

• 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.