Brightwater Care Group Pay Rates 2026: Carer, Nurse & Support Staff Pay

Brightwater is a Western Australian not-for-profit aged care and disability services provider running residential aged care homes, community and home care services, and a specialist neurological rehabilitation and disability service, across the Perth metropolitan area and regional WA. Its workforce includes personal care workers, registered and enrolled nurses, allied health and therapy staff, and hospitality and administrative teams.

Aged care roles are covered by the Aged Care Award 2010 across the direct care and general streams, and nurses by the Nurses Award 2020. Brightwater has multiple enterprise agreements registered with the Fair Work Commission, including one negotiated with the Health Services Union of WA (listed below where our corpus holds them); whichever applies to your role, it must leave you better off overall than these award figures.

The federal awards relevant to Brightwater Care Group roles:

• Aged Care Award 2010 (MA000018)
• Nurses Award 2020 (MA000034)

Workforce snapshot. In its 2024-25 report to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency, Brightwater Care Group Limited declared 2,656 employees — 15.8% casual and 83.1% women. Source: WGEA 2025 Public Data File, data.gov.au (CC-BY 3.0 AU).

After the aged care work value case, the Aged Care Award 2010 (MA000018) direct-care ladder (personal care workers, assistants in nursing, care team leaders) is:

The FWC publishes these direct-care rates weekly; hourly figures are the weekly rate ÷ 38, matching the Fair Work pay guide presentation.

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

Catering, cleaning, laundry, maintenance, lifestyle and administration staff sit on the general stream:

Weekend, shift and public holiday penalties apply on top — the aged care penalty schedule is not tabled here, so check a specific roster with the penalty rates calculator.

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 Brightwater Care Group agreements in our corpus (3 in total):

• Brightwater Care Group Limited Health Services Union of WA Enterprise Agreement 2025 — approved February 2026, nominal expiry 30 June 2027.
• Brightwater Care Group Employees Agreement 2024 — approved April 2025, nominal expiry 30 June 2027.
• Brightwater Care Group Limited Health Services Union of WA Enterprise Agreement 2023 — approved January 2024, nominal expiry 30 June 2025.

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 Brightwater Care Group payslip:

• Wrong direct-care level — Cert III personal care workers sit at direct care level 3, not level 1 or 2; medication-competent and senior carers higher again.
• Unpaid handover and documentation before and after the rostered shift.
• Sleepovers, broken shifts and short-notice changes paid without the award's allowances.
• Agreement rates frozen below the award's post-work-value floor — the award now overtakes some older agreement grids.

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.