Queensland Public Hospital Doctor Wages
Public hospital doctor pay — interns to specialists, with penalties, on-call & allowances
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Roles & Wages
| Role | Pay Point | July 2026 |
|---|---|---|
Resident Medical Officer Prevocational (L1-L3) Base annual salary for prevocational junior doctors: interns (L1), resident medical officers (L2) and senior residents / principal house officers (L3). | Intern (PGY1, L1) | $48.95 $97,036 / yr |
| Resident Medical Officer (PGY2, L2) | $52.77 $104,610 / yr | |
| Senior Resident / PHO (PGY3, L3) | $56.66 $112,322 / yr | |
Registrar Vocational training (L4-L9) Base annual salary for registrars in accredited vocational training programs. Year 6 (L9) is the top of the registrar scale. | Year 1 (L4) | $69.21 $137,196 / yr |
| Year 2 (L5) | $71.13 $140,997 / yr | |
| Year 3 (L6) | $73.06 $144,824 / yr | |
| Year 4 (L7) | $76.01 $150,684 / yr | |
| Year 6 (L9) | $80.02 $158,618 / yr | |
Senior Medical Officer L10-L13 Base annual salary for Senior Medical Officers. SMOs are also eligible for the extended-hours loadings and the $21,500 professional development allowance. | Year 1 (L10) | $88.01 $174,469 / yr |
| Year 4 (L13) | $96.99 $192,257 / yr | |
Senior Consultant L29 Base annual salary at classification L29, the highest base rate on the Queensland Health medical officer scale. | L29 | $156.03 $309,304 / yr |
Allowances
| Allowance | Unit | Amount |
|---|---|---|
Professional Development Allowance — Resident Medical Officers Annual professional development entitlement for resident medical officers (Table 1.6, Allowance Level 1). | Per annum | $2,640.00 |
Professional Development Allowance — Registrars (vocational training) Vocational training subsidy for registrars in accredited training programs (Table 1.6). | Per annum | $4,402.00 |
Professional Development Allowance — Senior Medical Officers Annual professional development allowance for senior medical officers (Table 1.5). | Per annum | $21,500.00 |
Clinical Managers Allowance — Level 1 (CM1) Payable for clinical management duties at the CM1 level (Table 1.4). | Per annum | $8,416.00 |
Medical Managers Allowance — Level 10 (MM10) Payable for medical management leadership duties at the MM10 level — the highest management allowance tier. | Per annum | $65,202.00 |
Salary packaging — FBT-exempt threshold FBT-exempt salary-packaging cap available to Queensland public hospital employees; the full benefit is retained by the employee. A packaging arrangement, not a cash allowance. | Per annum | $11,660.00 |
Penalty Rates
Ordinary hours worked on a Saturday (award cl 19.3(a)(i)).
Ordinary hours worked on a Sunday (award cl 19.3(a)(ii)).
Shift allowance where the major portion of ordinary hours falls between 6pm and 8am (award cl 19.2(a)).
Time and a half for the first three hours of overtime, double time thereafter (award cl 19.4(a)(i)).
Double time for all overtime worked on a Sunday.
Double time and a half for overtime worked on a public holiday.
Work on a public holiday is generally paid at time and a half (award cl 26(b)(ii)); Labour Day, the local Show holiday, Easter Saturday and Easter Sunday, and public holidays falling on a weekend attract 250%.
Loading on the base rate for senior medical officers working ordinary hours between 6pm and 7am, Monday to Friday, under the extended-span arrangements (agreement cl 12.9).
Loading on the base rate for senior medical officers working ordinary extended-span hours on a Saturday (agreement cl 12.9).
Loading on the base rate for senior medical officers working ordinary extended-span hours on a Sunday (agreement cl 12.9).
Loading on the base rate for senior medical officers working ordinary extended-span hours on a public holiday (agreement cl 12.9).
Loading applied to annual leave pay.
Notes
- •These figures are the full-time annual base salary in Australian dollars under MOCA7, at the rates payable from the first full pay period on or after 1 July 2026. MOCA7 delivers increases of 3% from 1 July 2025, 2.5% from 1 July 2026 and 2.5% from 1 July 2027 (each with a possible CPI uplift on top); the schedule's 1 July 2025 and 1 July 2027 columns are not reproduced here.
- •Ordinary full-time hours are 38 per week (a 76-hour fortnight). The schedule's hourly rates are the fortnightly salary divided by 76 hours, except the Senior Consultant (L29) hourly rate, which is only published on an 80-hour-fortnight basis.
- •Queensland Health pays medical officers on a single classification scale from L1 to L29; this table shows the key steps from intern (L1) to senior consultant (L29) rather than every level.
- •Weekend, shift, overtime and public-holiday penalties are set by the underpinning Medical Officers' (Queensland Health) Award – State 2015; the extended-hours loadings for senior medical officers come from the certified agreement.
- •On-call and recall rates are not listed: on-call for resident medical officers is paid as a flat amount per occasion, and senior medical officer on-call and recall are calculated from the individual doctor's own hourly rate, so there is no single published dollar schedule.
- •Employer superannuation is 12.75%. Medical officers receive six weeks of annual leave (with 17.5% leave loading), 12 days of study leave and 10 days of sick leave per year.
- •Allowance amounts are the dollar schedules published from 1 July 2024 under the certified agreement and carried forward — the professional development allowances are unchanged under MOCA7.
- •Source: Medical Officers' (Queensland Health) Certified Agreement (No. 7) 2025 (MOCA7) wages schedule, Queensland Health — health.qld.gov.au
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