{ "name": "Queensland public hospital doctor wage rates", "profession": "Public hospital doctors", "professionCode": "doctors", "code": "qld", "region": "Queensland", "country": "Australia", "currency": "AUD", "pageUrl": "https://myrosterapp.com.au/wages/doctors/qld/", "dataUrl": "https://myrosterapp.com.au/wages/doctors/qld/data.json", "catalogUrl": "https://myrosterapp.com.au/wages/data.json", "publisher": "MyRoster", "publisherUrl": "https://myrosterapp.com.au", "lastModified": "2026-09-06", "license": "Free for personal reference. Quote rates with credit to MyRoster (https://myrosterapp.com.au) and a link to the relevant wage page. Any other reuse (republishing, apps, datasets) requires permission — contact hello@myrosterapp.com.au.", "attribution": "Wage data compiled by MyRoster (https://myrosterapp.com.au) from the official award / enterprise agreement listed in each dataset's sourceUrls. Credit MyRoster and link to pageUrl when quoting.", "rateNotes": "hourly / weekly / annual figures are derived from each agreement's source amounts (see sourceFrequency) using its fullTimeHoursPerWeek and weeksPerYear (52.1667 unless the payroll convention differs, e.g. 52.17857 = 365.25 ÷ 7). Base rates only — penalties, allowances and overtime are listed separately.", "app": { "name": "MyRoster", "description": "MyRoster calculates take-home pay for shift workers from these rates — penalties, allowances, overtime, tax and super — on iOS and Android.", "website": "https://myrosterapp.com.au" }, "agreements": [ { "agreementName": "Medical Officers' (Queensland Health) Certified Agreement (No. 7) 2025 (MOCA7)", "agreementStatus": "Current (nominal expiry 30 June 2028)", "datasetCode": "qld", "region": "Queensland", "country": "Australia", "currency": "AUD", "fullTimeHoursPerWeek": 38, "weeksPerYear": 52.16666667, "sourceFrequency": "annual", "effectiveDates": [ "2026-07-01" ], "sourceUrls": [ "https://www.health.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0027/1245384/Medical-Stream-wage-rates_Senior-medical-officers-and-resident-medical-officers.pdf" ], "roles": [ { "title": "Resident Medical Officer", "description": "Base annual salary for prevocational junior doctors: interns (L1), resident medical officers (L2) and senior residents / principal house officers (L3).", "grade": "Prevocational (L1-L3)", "payPoints": [ { "id": "rmo-l1", "label": "Intern (PGY1, L1)", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2026-07-01", "annual": 97036, "hourly": 48.95, "weekly": 1860.12 } ] }, { "id": "rmo-l2", "label": "Resident Medical Officer (PGY2, L2)", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2026-07-01", "annual": 104610, "hourly": 52.77, "weekly": 2005.3 } ] }, { "id": "rmo-l3", "label": "Senior Resident / PHO (PGY3, L3)", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2026-07-01", "annual": 112322, "hourly": 56.66, "weekly": 2153.14 } ] } ] }, { "title": "Registrar", "description": "Base annual salary for registrars in accredited vocational training programs. Year 6 (L9) is the top of the registrar scale.", "grade": "Vocational training (L4-L9)", "payPoints": [ { "id": "reg-1", "label": "Year 1 (L4)", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2026-07-01", "annual": 137196, "hourly": 69.21, "weekly": 2629.96 } ] }, { "id": "reg-2", "label": "Year 2 (L5)", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2026-07-01", "annual": 140997, "hourly": 71.13, "weekly": 2702.82 } ] }, { "id": "reg-3", "label": "Year 3 (L6)", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2026-07-01", "annual": 144824, "hourly": 73.06, "weekly": 2776.18 } ] }, { "id": "reg-4", "label": "Year 4 (L7)", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2026-07-01", "annual": 150684, "hourly": 76.01, "weekly": 2888.51 } ] }, { "id": "reg-6", "label": "Year 6 (L9)", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2026-07-01", "annual": 158618, "hourly": 80.02, "weekly": 3040.6 } ] } ] }, { "title": "Senior Medical Officer", "description": "Base annual salary for Senior Medical Officers. SMOs are also eligible for the extended-hours loadings and the $21,500 professional development allowance.", "grade": "L10-L13", "payPoints": [ { "id": "smo-1", "label": "Year 1 (L10)", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2026-07-01", "annual": 174469, "hourly": 88.01, "weekly": 3344.45 } ] }, { "id": "smo-4", "label": "Year 4 (L13)", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2026-07-01", "annual": 192257, "hourly": 96.99, "weekly": 3685.44 } ] } ] }, { "title": "Senior Consultant", "description": "Base annual salary at classification L29, the highest base rate on the Queensland Health medical officer scale.", "grade": "L29", "payPoints": [ { "id": "sc-29", "label": "L29", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2026-07-01", "annual": 309304, "hourly": 156.03, "weekly": 5929.15 } ] } ] } ], "allowances": [ { "name": "Professional Development Allowance — Resident Medical Officers", "description": "Annual professional development entitlement for resident medical officers (Table 1.6, Allowance Level 1).", "unit": "Per annum", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2024-07-01", "amount": 2640 } ] }, { "name": "Professional Development Allowance — Registrars (vocational training)", "description": "Vocational training subsidy for registrars in accredited training programs (Table 1.6).", "unit": "Per annum", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2024-07-01", "amount": 4402 } ] }, { "name": "Professional Development Allowance — Senior Medical Officers", "description": "Annual professional development allowance for senior medical officers (Table 1.5).", "unit": "Per annum", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2024-07-01", "amount": 21500 } ] }, { "name": "Clinical Managers Allowance — Level 1 (CM1)", "description": "Payable for clinical management duties at the CM1 level (Table 1.4).", "unit": "Per annum", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2024-07-01", "amount": 8416 } ] }, { "name": "Medical Managers Allowance — Level 10 (MM10)", "description": "Payable for medical management leadership duties at the MM10 level — the highest management allowance tier.", "unit": "Per annum", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2024-07-01", "amount": 65202 } ] }, { "name": "Salary packaging — FBT-exempt threshold", "description": "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.", "unit": "Per annum", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2024-07-01", "amount": 11660 } ] } ], "penalties": [ { "name": "Saturday", "rate": "150%", "description": "Ordinary hours worked on a Saturday (award cl 19.3(a)(i))." }, { "name": "Sunday", "rate": "200%", "description": "Ordinary hours worked on a Sunday (award cl 19.3(a)(ii))." }, { "name": "Shift allowance — afternoon / night", "rate": "+15%", "description": "Shift allowance where the major portion of ordinary hours falls between 6pm and 8am (award cl 19.2(a))." }, { "name": "Overtime — Monday to Saturday", "rate": "150% / 200%", "description": "Time and a half for the first three hours of overtime, double time thereafter (award cl 19.4(a)(i))." }, { "name": "Overtime — Sunday", "rate": "200%", "description": "Double time for all overtime worked on a Sunday." }, { "name": "Overtime — public holiday", "rate": "250%", "description": "Double time and a half for overtime worked on a public holiday." }, { "name": "Public holiday", "rate": "150% / 250%", "description": "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%." }, { "name": "SMO extended-hours loading — Monday to Friday nights", "rate": "+44%", "description": "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)." }, { "name": "SMO extended-hours loading — Saturday", "rate": "+87%", "description": "Loading on the base rate for senior medical officers working ordinary extended-span hours on a Saturday (agreement cl 12.9)." }, { "name": "SMO extended-hours loading — Sunday", "rate": "+170%", "description": "Loading on the base rate for senior medical officers working ordinary extended-span hours on a Sunday (agreement cl 12.9)." }, { "name": "SMO extended-hours loading — public holidays", "rate": "+116%", "description": "Loading on the base rate for senior medical officers working ordinary extended-span hours on a public holiday (agreement cl 12.9)." }, { "name": "Annual leave loading", "rate": "17.5%", "description": "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 — https://www.health.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0027/1245384/Medical-Stream-wage-rates_Senior-medical-officers-and-resident-medical-officers.pdf" ] } ] }