NT Firefighter Salary 2024 — NT Fire and Rescue Service Pay Scale

NT firefighter pay 2024 at a glance

Full-time base salaries from 21 November 2024. Tap a table name for every row, or a salary to see it after tax.

Which agreement sets NT firefighter pay

Firefighters employed by NT Fire and Rescue Service are paid under the Northern Territory Public Sector Fire and Rescue Service 2021-2025 Enterprise Agreement. The rates below apply from 21 November 2024 and were read from the source on 24 September 2026.

NT Fire and Rescue Service pay scale — every classification

Annual full-time base salary before tax and before superannuation. Part-time staff are paid pro rata.

Every salary links to its take-home figure. Take-home pages exist for every $1,000 up to $150,000 and in wider steps above that, so a salary without a page of its own links to the nearest one.

Recruit firefighter pay

Recruit Firefighters are paid $80,285 a year for the first 4 months and $84,403 a year for the next 8 months (rates effective 21 November 2024) — 78% and 82% of the Firefighter Class A rate.

Recruits undertaking recruit training under the Training and Development Command do not receive the General Fire Fighting Allowance (clause 15.4).

Shift penalties, loadings and allowances

Base salary is not the whole of it: firefighters on rotating rosters are paid extra for shift work. In summary, from the Northern Territory Public Sector Fire and Rescue Service 2021-2025 Enterprise Agreement:

• A General Fire Fighting Allowance of 4% of base salary is paid to employees on shift duty at a Darwin or Alice Springs station and on Track Station day shift — for example $4,117 a year for Firefighter Class A (clause 15, Schedule 3).
• A 10% Day Shift Allowance (e.g. $10,293 a year for Firefighter Class A) and a 5.2% Alice Springs Allowance (e.g. $5,352 a year for Firefighter Class A) apply where eligible (Schedule 3).
• Shift work follows the 10/14 roster: 10-hour day shifts (0800–1800) and 14-hour night shifts (1800–0800), with ordinary hours averaging 38 a week over 52 weeks (clauses 39 and 41).

Check the instrument for the exact conditions that apply to your roster. Overtime is worked out separately — the overtime pay calculator handles time and a half and double time.

What a NT firefighter salary is worth after tax

Every salary in the tables links to its take-home figure. Start with take-home pay on $80,000 for the entry rate or take-home pay on $108,000 for the top of the scale. Those figures cover base salary only; shift penalties and allowances are taxed as ordinary income on top.

Employer superannuation is paid on top of these salaries. For your own pay including penalties, a study loan or salary packaging, use the take-home pay calculator or the NT pay calculator.

What this page does not show

We publish only what we could read from a primary source. These are left off rather than estimated:

• No pay increase after 21 November 2024 appears in the agreement or in the OCPE bulletins read (Bulletins 15, 20 and 21 and the negotiations index), so none is shown. The terms of the offer put to ballot did not become an agreement and are not shown.
• Allowances such as urban search and rescue, fire investigator and aerial appliance allowances are paid on top and are not included in the salaries.

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