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What a licence actually costs
Fee by fee, with the agency page and the date on every line. Where a jurisdiction does not publish a figure in a place we could read it, the line says so and stays out of the total.
Pick your jurisdiction, say how many sittings you expect to need, and tick anything optional that applies to you. The table underneath is an itemised bill where every priced line links to the agency page it was read from, and every unpriced line stays in the list and out of the total.
- What it needs from you
- A jurisdiction, the number of knowledge test and practical test sittings, and any optional items.
- What it gives back
- A line by line bill, a total of the fees that could be sourced, and a count of the lines left out of it.
- Where the amounts come from
- Agency fee pages, each named on its own row with the day it was read. There is no national fee schedule to work from.
- What it will not do
- Price a lesson, guess a fee that is not published, or call the total the cost of a licence. It is a floor, and the panel under the table says so.
Where you are getting the licence
Knowledge test sittings
Practical test sittings
Add anything that applies to you
| Fee | How it is charged | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Learner licence | One fee | $32 | NSW Government, Driver and rider licence fees, effective 1 July 2026. Checked 28 August 2026. |
| Driver Knowledge Test, in person | One fee | $58 | NSW Government, Driver and rider licence fees, effective 1 July 2026. Checked 28 August 2026. |
| Hazard Perception Test | One fee | $58 | NSW Government, Driver and rider licence fees, effective 1 July 2026. Checked 28 August 2026. |
| Driving test | One fee | $72 | NSW Government, Driver and rider licence fees, effective 1 July 2026. Checked 28 August 2026. |
| P1 provisional licence | One fee | $74 | NSW Government, Driver and rider licence fees, effective 1 July 2026. Checked 28 August 2026. |
| Total of the fees we can source | Every line on this list is priced | $294 | Transport for NSW and Service NSW |
What this number is not
It is the sum of the government fees we could read on an agency page, for New South Wales, at the sittings you picked. It does not include driving lessons, which are usually the largest cost of getting a licence and are set by a private market rather than published. It does not include concessions, which several jurisdictions offer. It is a floor, not a quote.
The Safer Drivers Course is run by approved providers who set their own prices, so there is no one number to publish.
Concessions exist for some card holders and are not modelled here.
Where this tool stays quiet
- Lessons. The largest line in most real totals, and a private market with a different rate in every suburb. There is no published price to read, so there is no line for it.
- Fees that are not published in a form we would repeat. They keep their row, marked as not published here, and they are excluded from the total rather than estimated into it.
- Concessions. Several jurisdictions offer them, on terms that depend on the person rather than on the licence, so the tool prices the standard fee and leaves the concession to the agency.
- The Safer Drivers Course in New South Wales. Approved providers set their own price, so there is no single figure to carry.
Why half the lines are blank
Because a blank line is the honest answer, and every other site fills it in.
There is no national fee schedule in Australia. Eight agencies publish eight sets of fees, on their own pages, on their own schedules, in their own formats. New South Wales and Queensland publish a clean table with an effective date on it, so those two jurisdictions are almost fully priced here. Western Australia prices its learner permit and theory test on the page where you apply for them. The rest were either behind a page we could not read or were not stated in a form we would repeat.
We could have copied the missing figures from a competitor. Several of them carry a full eight state fee table, and some of those numbers are years out of date. A wrong fee is worse than a missing one, because a missing one sends you to the agency and a wrong one does not.
What moves the total most
Resits. Western Australia passes fewer than half of its practical assessments, and Victoria stops more than one drive test in five part way through. In New South Wales a second Driver Knowledge Test sitting costs the same again in person, while DKT Online is one fee for as many attempts as it takes, which is the single clearest saving on this page. Set the sittings control above to two and watch which jurisdictions move.
What is not here at all
Lessons. A professional lesson is the largest line in most people's real total and there is no published price for it, because it is a private market with a different rate in every suburb. Anyone showing you a national lesson price is showing you an average of guesses. The same goes for the Safer Drivers Course in New South Wales, which approved providers price themselves.
One correction we owe you
Our state pages used to carry a Western Australian theory test fee of $18.20 and a Queensland PrepL fee of $28.70. Reading the agency pages for this tool put those at $22.40 and $29.70. The agency figures are what this tool uses, and the state pages, guides and comparison table now carry them too.
The cheapest way through any of these is to not sit anything twice. The pass mark checker shows how much margin your jurisdiction gives you, and the log book planner handles the other half of the problem.
The pages these figures come from
Every figure above is read off one of these pages, where it sits next to the agency that published it and the date it was checked.