VMCH Pay Rates 2026: Carer, Nurse & Support Staff Pay

VMCH (Villa Maria Catholic Homes) is a Catholic not-for-profit running residential aged care, retirement living, home care and disability services across Victoria and southern New South Wales. Its aged care workforce includes personal care workers, registered and enrolled nurses, home care staff, and hospitality, lifestyle and administrative teams in its residential homes.

Aged care roles at VMCH sit on the Aged Care Award 2010, with separate classification ladders for the direct care and general streams, and its nurses are covered by the Nurses Award 2020 — the tables below cover both. VMCH has separate enterprise agreements for its aged care and disability services businesses (listed below where our corpus holds them); either agreement must leave you better off overall than these award minimums.

The federal awards relevant to VMCH (Villa Maria Catholic Homes) roles:

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

Workforce snapshot. In its 2024-25 report to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency, Villa Maria Catholic Homes Limited declared 3,281 employees — 28.2% casual and 77.4% 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 VMCH (Villa Maria Catholic Homes) agreements in our corpus (2 in total):

• VMCH Aged Care Services Agreement 2025 — approved April 2026, nominal expiry 30 June 2029.
• Application for approval of the VMCH Disability Services Agreement 2024 — approved June 2024, nominal expiry 30 June 2027.

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 VMCH (Villa Maria Catholic Homes) 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.