Catholic Healthcare Home Care Package fees (now Support at Home): what they charge and what it buys
- Weekday personal care
- $110 an hour
- Publishes full price list
- Yes
- Verified
- 24 July 2026
Standard hours, Monday to Friday 6am-6pm
Catholic Healthcare publishes a weekday personal care rate of $110 an hour (Standard hours, Monday to Friday 6am-6pm), effective Effective 1 November 2025, current until 31 July 2026 (an August 2026 guide is already linked from their site).
Every figure on this page checked 24 July 2026.
What that rate buys, in hours per week
This uses Catholic Healthcare's published weekday personal care rate, applied to the current Support at Home , after the 10% set aside for .
| Level | Hours per week at Catholic Healthcare's rate |
|---|---|
| Level 4 | ~4.8 hours a week |
| Level 6 | ~7.8 hours a week |
| Level 8 | ~12.6 hours a week |
A baseline for comparison, not a quote. Full 8-level breakdown and other rate points on the hours calculator. 10% care management allocation: Support at Home Program Manual v4.2, section 8.9 (care management account).
What this covers
Weekday domestic help
$105 an hour
Care management
10% pooled allocation, delivered at $130 an hour
Short visits
$70 per visit · a 30-minute medication-only visit (no general short-visit rate for personal care is published)
GST basis
unstated
Source: Catholic Healthcare's published schedule , verified 2026-07-24. Publishing a price list is not a claim that Catholic Healthcare is cheap or best. It means you can check the price against your own invoice, and hold this to it. Booking structure, care management, and which services are actually approved matter just as much as the headline rate. Contributions are separate again. Clinical services carry none. Independence and everyday-living services are .
Your package
Level 4·$7,617 a quarter
about $30,469 a year
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A Level 4 package buys roughly
- 3.5 to 5.5 hours a week of everyday help
- 2.5 to 4 hours a week of nursing and clinical care
- 1.5 to 3 hours a week of allied health
Or any mix, from one budget.
At published full-service weekday rates, after the standard 10% care management fee. Not a quote. Care management cap: Support at Home Program Manual v4.2, section 8.9 (care management account).
Which rate should we use?
Catholic Healthcare
GST basis not stated. Schedule effective Effective 1 November 2025, current until 31 July 2026 (an August 2026 guide is already linked from their site). Verified 2026-07-24. Source
An example week
Adjust it to match your plan
Available services depend on what is in your approved plan.
Everyday help
Personal care, domestic help, social support, respite, nursing assistants
This week
a weekday morning, plus a bit more
Nursing and clinical care
Enrolled and registered nursing, allied health assistants
≈ one nurse visit a week
Allied health professionals
Physiotherapy, occupational therapy and other allied health professionals
about $473 of $527 a week
Room for roughly half an hour more everyday help a week.
This calculator is here to give you a feel for what a package can buy. It is an estimate built from providers' published prices, not advice or a quote. Rates and rules change, and your own agreement is what counts. Check the numbers with your provider or My Aged Care before you rely on them.
Evenings and weekends cost more
These figures are weekday daytime. Providers load: Evening about +3-25% · Saturday +21-51% · Sunday +44-76% · Public holidays +86-150%.
Allied health is mostly weekday-only.
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A few things worth knowing
- Short visits usually cost more than a pro-rata slice of the minimum visit length.
- Some providers blend Saturday and Sunday into one weekend rate rather than pricing them separately.
- Overnight respite is often priced as a flat block, not an hourly rate.
Rate sources: Department of Health, Funding classifications for Support at Home · Support at Home program classifications and budgets (PDF) . Individual provider and tier rates carry their own verified dates alongside each figure above. Budgets verified against the Department of Health on 2026-07-22; budgets index every 1 July, rates re-verified each January and July.
Compare other providers
- HammondCare $113.40 an hour an hour for weekday personal care.
- KinCare $134 an hour an hour for weekday personal care.
- Home Instead $122 an hour an hour for weekday personal care.
Where to go next
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