St Vincent's Health Australia Pay Rates 2026: Nurses, Allied Health & Support Staff Pay

St Vincent's Health Australia runs public and private hospitals in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane — including St Vincent's Hospital Sydney and Melbourne — plus a large residential aged care network. Its workforce spans nurses and midwives, allied health, medical support, and hospital services staff in cleaning, catering, orderly and administrative roles.

St Vincent's bargains by state and by stream, with public hospital staff largely on state-based instruments and the private hospitals and aged care on federal enterprise agreements (our corpus lists many below). The federal awards underneath are the Health Professionals and Support Services Award 2020 (tabled), the Nurses Award and, in aged care, the Aged Care Award.

The federal awards relevant to St Vincent's Health Australia roles:

• Health Professionals and Support Services Award 2020 (MA000027)
• Nurses Award 2020 (MA000034)

Workforce snapshot. In its 2024-25 report to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency, St Vincent's Health Australia Ltd declared 23,491 employees across 6 reporting entities — 21.1% casual and 75.2% women, with 1,282 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 St Vincent's Health Australia agreements in our corpus (19 in total):

• St Vincent de Paul Society (NSW) Retail, Distribution and Recycling Enterprise Agreement 2024 — approved January 2025, nominal expiry 30 September 2028.
• St Vincent’s Private Hospitals Health and Allied Services Staff Enterprise Agreement 2024 — approved February 2025, nominal expiry 30 June 2028.
• St Vincent’s Private Hospitals Ltd and QNMU/ANMF Nursing and Midwifery Enterprise Agreement 2024-2027 — approved January 2025, nominal expiry 30 June 2027.
• St Vincent’s Private Hospital Nurses’ Enterprise Agreement 2024-2027 — approved February 2025, nominal expiry 30 June 2027.
• St Vincent’s Private Hospitals Ltd Victoria and the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation Nurses and Midwives Enterprise Agreement 2024 — approved April 2025, nominal expiry 30 June 2027.
• St Vincent’s Private Hospital Darlinghurst Medical Imaging Enterprise Agreement 2023 — approved July 2024, nominal expiry 31 December 2026.
• St Vincent’s Care Services NSW Enterprise Agreement 2023 - 2026 — approved March 2024, nominal expiry 30 June 2026.
• St Vincent’s Care Services NSW Enterprise Agreement 2023 - 2026 — approved March 2024, nominal expiry 30 June 2026.

Plus 11 more — search "St Vincent's Health Australia" in our agreements database.

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 hospital sector. This is a checklist for your own payslip, not a finding about St Vincent's Health Australia:

• 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.