What the NDIS pays — the 2026–27 rates

These are the published price limits for the everyday support work a sole trader can deliver in someone's home. Taken from the official NDIS Pricing Schedule 2026–27 (effective 1 July 2026) and verified against it line by line.

Four things to understand about these numbers

They're a ceiling, not a target. The price limit is the most you may bill. Charging less — a rate negotiated with a long-standing local client — is completely legitimate, and in small towns it's often how you win the work.

Household tasks carry no weekend rate. Cleaning and yard work are the same price every day of the week. The evening, Saturday, Sunday and public holiday rates above belong to social participation — they aren't a loading you can add to cleaning.

These are the everyday-support rates — not personal care. Everything in the table above is the non-personal-care work: household tasks, and community and social participation. Personal care — showering, dressing, toileting, medication prompts, manual handling — is a different group of funded items, Daily Personal Activities, priced separately: self-care is $73.58 on a weekday daytime, $103.54 on a Saturday, $133.50 on a Sunday and $163.46 on a public holiday. It needs the training (a Cert III or equivalent) and its own insurance, and it is not what my course teaches — but if you already hold a Cert III, you may be able to offer it to self-managed and plan-managed clients. Check the client's plan and your insurer first.

This is billing, not take-home. Insurance, tax, super, travel and your own unpaid admin all come out of it. What you keep is a different number, and your accountant is the one to work it out.

Rates change each July. Verify anything here against the current schedule at ndis.gov.au before you quote or invoice — and if you want the whole picture explained, the free training covers it.