Sydney Adventist Hospital Pay Rates 2026: Nurses, Allied Health & Support Staff Pay

Sydney Adventist Hospital — known locally as "the San" — is a major private hospital in Sydney, run by the Seventh-day Adventist Church's healthcare arm, offering acute, surgical and maternity services. Its workforce spans nurses, allied health professionals, and a large support and administrative team.

Nursing staff sit on the Nurses Award 2020, while allied health and support roles sit on the Health Professionals and Support Services Award 2020. Our corpus holds one enterprise agreement covering allied health and support staff (listed below); nursing pay and any role not covered by that agreement should be checked against the award tables.

The federal awards relevant to Sydney Adventist Hospital (Adventist HealthCare) 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, Adventist Healthcare Limited declared 2,485 employees — 23.3% casual and 76.2% 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 Sydney Adventist Hospital (Adventist HealthCare) agreements in our corpus (1 in total):

• Adventist HealthCare Limited Allied Health and Support Services Staff Enterprise Agreement 2025 — approved December 2025, nominal expiry 1 January 2028.

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 Sydney Adventist Hospital (Adventist HealthCare) 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.