Penalty rates
Every shift is split at rate-change boundaries — 10pm, midnight, weekends, public holidays — so each hour is rated at exactly the right loading.
Pay Check
Pay Check for the NSW Nurses Award
The Public Health System Nurses and Midwives Award (MA000034) covers registered nurses, enrolled nurses, and midwives at NSW public hospitals. It includes evening and night shift loadings, weekend penalties, and overtime provisions for shift overruns.
What Shift It handles
The complexity behind the NSW Nurses Award.
Shift It reads the award so you don't have to. Here's what it accounts for.
Overtime
Ordinary hours thresholds are tracked across the full pay cycle. Whether overtime is calculated daily, weekly, or across an averaging period, Shift It handles it correctly.
Payslip comparison
Enter the gross on your payslip. Shift It shows whether it matches your calculated entitlement — and if not, exactly how much is missing.
Common questions
NSW Nurses Award pay questions, answered.
Things workers actually search for — with straight answers.
What are the weekend penalty rates for NSW nurses?
Saturday hours are paid at 150% of the minimum hourly rate (a 50% penalty loading). Sunday hours are paid at 175% (a 75% penalty loading).1
How is overtime calculated for nurses at NSW Health?
Monday–Saturday overtime is paid at 150% for the first two hours and 200% thereafter. Sunday overtime is paid at 200% for all hours.1
What is the public holiday rate for NSW nurses?
Public holiday work is paid at 250% of the minimum hourly rate.1 If the holiday falls on your rostered day off, you are entitled to a substitute day.
Check your NSW Nurses Award pay.
Import your roster, pick your classification, and Shift It calculates exactly what you should have been paid — penalties, overtime, allowances, and all.