The clinical grades start around $2,184/wk (Clinical Nurse, Nurse Grade 6) and run up to the nurse practitioner grades — well above the base RN scale. Queensland's qualifications allowance and accelerated advancement reward the postgraduate study that unlocks them.
Pay scale
Base rates, in force from 1 April 2026 — before penalties, allowances and overtime. Nurse Grades 6–8, in force from 1 April 2026.
A registered nurse (Grades 5-7 and 9) with a recognised post-registration qualification gets a qualification allowance of 3.5%, or an advanced qualification allowance of…
Professional development allowanceCat B $3,726/yr; Cat A $2,981/yr; Cat C…
Permanent Nurse Grade 3 and above working 16+ hours per fortnight get a professional development allowance, pro-rata, set by facility category.…
For hard-to-fill MM6/MM7 posts the employer may offer a remote flexible roster (like purchased leave): you set aside salary to fund block periods of leave to travel away…
RANIP annual isolation bonus$3,605 (after yr 1); $10,815 (after yr 2);…
Nurses/midwives in a designated RANIP location (Modified Monash MM6 remote or MM7 very-remote site listed in HR Policy C2 RANIP) get an annual isolation bonus paid as a…
Salary packaging~$11,660/yr tax-free
As a public-hospital employee you can package about $9,010 of everyday expenses plus ~$2,650 of meal entertainment FBT-free, plus a novated car lease — and it doesn't reduce any penalty or allowance.
Leave, study & the full conditions
Leave and study support (annual, parental, long-service, study leave, the career-break scheme), the overtime, minimum-break and on-call rules, and the complete allowance list apply across all Queensland nurse classifications — see the full Queensland nurse pay & conditions guide.