Nursing Salary In Australia

Australia is second thing for nurses who want to looking opportunities job after USA and UK. Many nurses still choose travel to Australia to find good chance for nurses career. Australia today still need more nurses to work in many Australia cities such as Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra, Darwin, Gold Coast, Newcastle and other cities.

Nurses in Australia is paid according to hours after graduation from Nursing College.
As per the NSW Nurses Award the NSW Public Health hospitals can only recognize maximum hours of 38 hours (full time) for any one given period (i.e periods of casual or part-time employment cannot overlap full-time employment over the same period).

Shift Allowances

Nurses who have working in afternoon or night shifts are paid percentages of their salary in addition to the ordinary rate, as follows:

• afternoon shift commencing at 10.00 am and before 1.00 pm attracts an additional 10%
  
• afternoon shift commencing at 1.00 pm and before 4.00 pm attracts an additional 12.5%
  
• night shift commencing at 4.00 pm and before 4.00 am attracts an additional 15%
  
• night shift commencing at 4.00 am and before 6.00 am attracts an additional 10%.

Employees whose ordinary working hours include work on a Saturday and/or Sunday are paid for ordinary working hours worked between midnight on Friday and midnight on Saturday at the rate of time and one half, and for ordinary hours worked between midnight on Saturday and midnight on Sunday at the rate of time and three quarters.

Positions available for RN's in major cities such as Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane as well as rural/remote locations.
Here nursing salary scale according to hourly work time

Nursing Salary Scale		1st july 2006
Registered Nurse	AUD
Description	per hour	per week	per year
1st Year	$22,21	$843,90	$44033,50
2nd Year	$23,42	$889,90	$46433,71
3rd Year	$24,63	$935,80	$48828,71
4th Year	$25,92	$985,10	$51401,11
5th Year	$27,21	$1033,90	$5394742
6th Year	$28,49	$1082,70	$56493,74
7th Year	$29,96	$1138,40	$59400,08
8th Year	$31,19	$1185,20	$61842,04

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Source: Nursing australia.net