Tasmania Nurse Management (NUM / Director of Nursing) Pay 2025–26
Tasmania's management grades (Grade 7a and above) cover nurse unit managers up to directors of nursing, with pay set by the size of the service.
Pay scale
Base rates, in force from 1 December 2025 — before penalties, allowances and overtime. Entry/each step shown (1 December 2025).
| Grade | Weekly | Hourly | Annualised |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 7a (Nurse Unit Manager / Nurse Manager / After Hours Nurse Manager), Year 0 | $2,415.47 | $63.56 | $126,036 |
| Grade 7a (Nurse Unit Manager / Nurse Manager / After Hours Nurse Manager), Year 1 | $2,469.29 | $64.98 | $128,844 |
| Grade 7a (Nurse Unit Manager / Nurse Manager / After Hours Nurse Manager), Year 2 | $2,523.07 | $66.40 | $131,650 |
| Grade 7a (Nurse Unit Manager / Nurse Manager / After Hours Nurse Manager), Year 3 | $2,547.64 | $67.04 | $132,932 |
| Grade 7b (Nurse Unit Manager - higher complexity / After Hours Nurse Unit Manager), Year 1 | $2,570.19 | $67.64 | $134,109 |
| Grade 7b (Nurse Unit Manager - higher complexity / After Hours Nurse Unit Manager), Year 2 | $2,617.36 | $68.88 | $136,570 |
| Grade 7b (Nurse Unit Manager - higher complexity / After Hours Nurse Unit Manager), Year 3 | $2,664.47 | $70.12 | $139,028 |
| Grade 7b (Nurse Unit Manager - higher complexity / After Hours Nurse Unit Manager), Year 4 | $2,690.45 | $70.80 | $140,384 |
| Grade 8 (Assistant Director of Nursing / Director of Nursing and/or Midwifery; also Nurse Practitioner), Level 1 | $2,712.01 | $71.37 | $141,509 |
| Grade 8 (Assistant Director of Nursing / Director of Nursing and/or Midwifery; also Nurse Practitioner), Level 2 | $2,733.54 | $71.94 | $142,632 |
| Grade 8 (Assistant Director of Nursing / Director of Nursing and/or Midwifery; also Nurse Practitioner), Level 3 | $2,845.42 | $74.88 | $148,470 |
| Grade 8 (Assistant Director of Nursing / Director of Nursing and/or Midwifery; also Nurse Practitioner), Level 4 | $2,957.17 | $77.82 | $154,301 |
| Grade 8 (Assistant Director of Nursing / Director of Nursing and/or Midwifery; also Nurse Practitioner), Level 5 | $3,156.10 | $83.06 | $164,681 |
| Grade 9 (Nursing Director / Executive Director of Nursing/Midwifery), Level 1 | $3,502.09 | $92.16 | $182,734 |
Ways to earn more
- Management grades run from $2,415.47 to $3,502.09/wk; your grade rises with the size and complexity of the unit or facility.
- Directors of Nursing sit in the upper management grades — moving to a bigger facility is a direct pay step.
Allowances you can claim
On top of base pay — the allowances most relevant to this role.
Remote & Rural Professional Development Allowance — REMOTE sites$3,797/yr PLUS +10% of salaried incremental…
BIG one for remote nurses. If you work at a defined Remote Site you get a Professional Development Allowance of $3,797/yr AND an additional 10% salary allowance on your…
Postgraduate qualification allowance — RN/MidwifeGraduate Cert 4.0% / PG Dip or Degree 6.5% /…
Probably the single most-overlooked money lever. If you hold a relevant postgraduate qualification AND work in an area relevant to it, you get an ongoing % allowance on…
District (isolation) allowance — Category R remote$4,942.00/yr (with dependants) / $2,470.00/yr…
If permanently stationed in a Category R remote location — including the Bass Strait Islands, Maria Island and Bruny Island — you can be paid a district allowance to…
Uniform allowance$500/yr
If you provide direct care but are required NOT to wear a uniform (the award names mental health and child & family health nurses as examples), you get a flat uniform…
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 Tasmania nurse classifications — see the full Tasmania nurse pay & conditions guide.
Pay figures are drawn from the Nurses and Midwives (Tasmanian State Service) Agreement 2023. Confirm your exact classification, step and allowances against the current instrument and your payslip.