Healius Pay Rates 2026: Collector, Lab & Support Staff Pay

Healius runs the Laverty, Dorevitch, QML, Abbott and TML pathology businesses and the Agilex clinical trials arm, following the sale of its imaging and medical centre divisions. That leaves a workforce of pathology collectors, laboratory scientists and technicians, specimen couriers and collection-centre reception staff across every state.

Healius pathology staff are covered by the Health Professionals and Support Services Award 2020 — collectors and lab assistants in the support stream, scientists in the health professional stream — with enterprise agreements at various labs (below where our corpus holds them). The award ladder is the floor.

The federal awards relevant to Healius (Laverty, Dorevitch, QML Pathology) roles:

• Health Professionals and Support Services Award 2020 (MA000027)

Workforce snapshot. In its 2024-25 report to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency, Healius Limited declared 9,005 employees across 4 reporting entities — 8.1% casual and 74.8% women, with 160 in management roles. 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 Healius (Laverty, Dorevitch, QML Pathology) agreements in our corpus (3 in total):

• Healius Pathology Ltd T/A Dorevitch Pathology Scientists and Technician Employees Enterprise Agreement 2023 - 2027 — approved July 2023, nominal expiry 1 April 2027.
• QML/TML Pathology Enterprise Agreement 2024 — approved January 2025, nominal expiry 30 June 2026.
• HEALIUS PATHOLOGY PTY LTD TRADING AS LAVERTY PATHOLOGY (NSW AND ACT) ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT 2023 — approved April 2023, 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.

General award-compliance issues that come up across the pathology sector. This is a checklist for your own payslip, not a finding about Healius (Laverty, Dorevitch, QML 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.