{ "name": "South Australia public hospital doctor wage rates", "profession": "Public hospital doctors", "professionCode": "doctors", "code": "sa", "region": "South Australia", "country": "Australia", "currency": "AUD", "pageUrl": "https://myrosterapp.com.au/wages/doctors/sa/", "dataUrl": "https://myrosterapp.com.au/wages/doctors/sa/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": "SA Health Salaried Medical Officers Enterprise Agreement 2025 (SAET ET-25-03807)", "agreementStatus": "Current", "datasetCode": "sa", "region": "South Australia", "country": "Australia", "currency": "AUD", "fullTimeHoursPerWeek": 38, "weeksPerYear": 52.16666667, "sourceFrequency": "annual", "effectiveDates": [ "2026-04-14" ], "sourceUrls": [ "https://www.sahealth.sa.gov.au/wps/wcm/connect/3f961b93-04e4-4848-bcc5-2fb498456a81/Order+and+EA+-+SA+Health+Salaried+Medical+Officers+Enterprise+Agreement+2026.pdf?MOD=AJPERES" ], "roles": [ { "title": "Intern", "description": "Base annual salary for a first-year intern (PGY1), paid at Medical Practitioner Step 1.", "grade": "Medical Practitioner Group", "payPoints": [ { "id": "intern-pgy1", "label": "PGY1", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2026-04-14", "annual": 91757, "hourly": 46.29, "weekly": 1758.92 } ] } ] }, { "title": "Resident Medical Officer", "description": "Base annual salary for a second-year Resident Medical Officer (PGY2), paid at Medical Practitioner Step 2.", "grade": "Medical Practitioner Group", "payPoints": [ { "id": "rmo-pgy2", "label": "PGY2", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2026-04-14", "annual": 99707, "hourly": 50.3, "weekly": 1911.32 } ] } ] }, { "title": "Senior Resident Medical Officer", "description": "Base annual salary at Medical Practitioner Step 3; the scale caps at Step 3, so PGY4 Senior RMOs stay on the same rate as PGY3.", "grade": "Medical Practitioner Group", "payPoints": [ { "id": "srmo-pgy3", "label": "PGY3", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2026-04-14", "annual": 107655, "hourly": 54.31, "weekly": 2063.67 } ] }, { "id": "srmo-pgy4", "label": "PGY4", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2026-04-14", "annual": 107655, "hourly": 54.31, "weekly": 2063.67 } ] } ] }, { "title": "Registrar", "description": "Base annual salary; Registrar Years 1-5 correspond to Medical Practitioner Steps 4-8.", "grade": "Medical Practitioner Group", "payPoints": [ { "id": "reg-1", "label": "Year 1", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2026-04-14", "annual": 124346, "hourly": 62.73, "weekly": 2383.63 } ] }, { "id": "reg-2", "label": "Year 2", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2026-04-14", "annual": 134677, "hourly": 67.94, "weekly": 2581.67 } ] }, { "id": "reg-3", "label": "Year 3", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2026-04-14", "annual": 142627, "hourly": 71.95, "weekly": 2734.06 } ] }, { "id": "reg-4", "label": "Year 4", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2026-04-14", "annual": 150573, "hourly": 75.96, "weekly": 2886.38 } ] }, { "id": "reg-5", "label": "Year 5", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2026-04-14", "annual": 158523, "hourly": 79.97, "weekly": 3038.78 } ] } ] }, { "title": "Senior Registrar", "description": "Base annual salary; Senior Registrar Steps 1 and 2.", "grade": "Senior Medical Staff", "payPoints": [ { "id": "sreg-1", "label": "Step 1", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2026-04-14", "annual": 163291, "hourly": 82.37, "weekly": 3130.18 } ] }, { "id": "sreg-2", "label": "Step 2", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2026-04-14", "annual": 169648, "hourly": 85.58, "weekly": 3252.04 } ] } ] }, { "title": "Consultant", "description": "Base annual salary at the first step of the nine-step Consultant scale.", "grade": "Senior Medical Staff", "payPoints": [ { "id": "cons-1", "label": "Step 1", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2026-04-14", "annual": 243212, "hourly": 122.69, "weekly": 4662.21 } ] } ] }, { "title": "Senior Consultant", "description": "Base annual salary at the top (ninth) step of the Consultant scale.", "grade": "Senior Medical Staff", "payPoints": [ { "id": "scons-9", "label": "Step 9", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2026-04-14", "annual": 320467, "hourly": 161.66, "weekly": 6143.14 } ] } ] } ], "allowances": [ { "name": "Professional Development Allowance", "description": "Payable to all doctors in training and registrars.", "unit": "Per annum", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2026-04-14", "amount": 4500 } ] }, { "name": "Remote Call Allowance — part period", "description": "On call from home for a night, part of a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday, or a day normally rostered off.", "unit": "Per period", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2026-04-14", "amount": 51.7 } ] }, { "name": "Remote Call Allowance — full period", "description": "On call from home for a full Saturday, Sunday, public holiday or rostered day off.", "unit": "Per period", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2026-04-14", "amount": 82.12 } ] }, { "name": "Managerial Allowance — small unit", "description": "Head of a small unit, or of a sub-unit of a large unit.", "unit": "Per annum", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2026-04-14", "amount": 10333 } ] }, { "name": "Managerial Allowance — large unit", "description": "Head of a large unit.", "unit": "Per annum", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2026-04-14", "amount": 24242 } ] }, { "name": "Annual Leave Loading", "description": "Loading paid on annual leave (five weeks per year).", "unit": "% of salary", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2026-04-14", "amount": "17.5%" } ] }, { "name": "Consultant Recall — standard", "description": "Hourly addition when a Consultant (Steps 1-4) is recalled to duty; published at the 14 April 2025 rate.", "unit": "Per hour", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-04-14", "amount": 21.74 } ] }, { "name": "Consultant Recall — Sunday", "description": "Hourly addition for a Consultant (Steps 1-4) recalled on a Sunday; published at the 14 April 2025 rate.", "unit": "Per hour", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-04-14", "amount": 28.98 } ] }, { "name": "Consultant Immediate Recall — 8am to midnight", "description": "Hourly addition for a Consultant (Steps 1-4) on immediate recall between 8am and midnight; published at the 14 April 2025 rate.", "unit": "Per hour", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-04-14", "amount": 43.48 } ] }, { "name": "Consultant Immediate Recall — midnight to 8am", "description": "Hourly addition for a Consultant (Steps 1-4) on immediate recall between midnight and 8am; published at the 14 April 2025 rate.", "unit": "Per hour", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-04-14", "amount": 130.44 } ] } ], "penalties": [ { "name": "Saturday (ordinary hours)", "rate": "150%", "description": "Time and a half for ordinary hours worked on a Saturday." }, { "name": "Sunday (ordinary hours)", "rate": "200%", "description": "Double time for ordinary hours worked on a Sunday." }, { "name": "Public Holiday", "rate": "250%", "description": "Double time and a half for hours worked on a public holiday." }, { "name": "Afternoon Shift", "rate": "15%", "description": "Shift loading for hours worked after 6pm and before midnight." }, { "name": "Night Shift", "rate": "25%", "description": "Shift loading for hours worked after midnight." }, { "name": "Overtime — weekday", "rate": "150% → 200%", "description": "Time and a half for the first 2 hours of overtime, double time thereafter." }, { "name": "Overtime — Sunday", "rate": "200%", "description": "Flat double time for all overtime worked on a Sunday." }, { "name": "Recall to duty", "rate": "150%, 2 hr min", "description": "Recall is paid at overtime rates with a minimum 2-hour payment; travel time counts as time worked. Consultants also receive the hourly recall additions listed under Allowances." }, { "name": "Casual loading", "rate": "125%", "description": "Casual doctors receive a 25% loading in lieu of annual leave, sick leave and public holidays not worked." }, { "name": "Public Holiday — casual", "rate": "150% + 25% loading", "description": "Casuals are paid 150% of the hourly rate plus the 25% casual loading for all public-holiday hours worked." } ], "notes": [ "These figures are the annual base salary in Australian dollars at the 14 April 2026 increment, taken from Schedule 1 of the agreement (the General Public Sector salary-sacrifice scheme); Schedule 2 lists parallel rates for doctors on the alternative salary-sacrifice arrangement.", "The agreement delivers a 13% wage rise over its term: 3.5% from 14 April 2025, then 3.25% from 14 April 2026, 3.25% from 14 April 2027 and 3% from 14 April 2028. Only the 14 April 2026 rates — the column in force now — are shown here.", "Ordinary full-time hours are 38 per week. The agreement also publishes weekly and hourly equivalents derived from the annual salary; only the annual figures are shown here.", "Intern through Registrar classifications sit on the Medical Practitioner salary scale (Steps 1-8), and a PGY4 Senior Resident Medical Officer remains on the Step 3 rate. The Consultant scale runs nine steps: the first (Consultant Step 1) and last (Senior Consultant Step 9) are shown; the intermediate steps 2-8 are not listed here.", "Consultant recall hourly additions apply to Consultants on Steps 1-4 and are shown at their published 14 April 2025 rate; the other allowances are at the 14 April 2026 rate.", "The agreement also provides 11.5% employer superannuation, five weeks of annual leave with 17.5% leave loading, five days of study leave and 12 days of sick leave per year.", "Continuous duty is capped at 16 hours, after which an 8-hour break is required; SA Health fatigue-management provisions apply.", "Source: SA Health Salaried Medical Officers Enterprise Agreement 2025 (SAET-approved 20 October 2025, case ET-25-03807), SA Health — https://www.sahealth.sa.gov.au/wps/wcm/connect/3f961b93-04e4-4848-bcc5-2fb498456a81/Order+and+EA+-+SA+Health+Salaried+Medical+Officers+Enterprise+Agreement+2026.pdf?MOD=AJPERES" ] } ] }