Victoria

Public hospital doctor pay — interns to specialists, with penalties, on-call & allowances

Enterprise Agreement

Doctors in Training (Victorian Public Health Sector) (AMA Victoria/ASMOF) Enterprise Agreement 2022-2026

Current (past nominal expiry Feb 2026, continues in force)

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Roles & Wages

Role	Pay Point	Mar 2025
Intern Base annual salary for a first postgraduate year doctor (HM11 classification), at the agreement's final wage step of 1 March 2025.	PGY1 (HM11)	$85,201
Resident Medical Officer Base annual salary for Hospital Medical Officers in postgraduate years 2-4. Senior RMOs (PGY4 and beyond) are paid at the HMO Year 3 (HM13) base rate.	PGY2 / HMO Year 2 (HM12)	$90,607
	PGY3 / HMO Year 3 (HM13)	$98,225
	Senior RMO — PGY4 (HM13 rate)	$98,225
Medical Officer Base annual salary for non-training Medical Officers on the HM14-HM18 scale; the first and fifth-year steps are shown — Years 2-4 sit between them.	Year 1 (HM14)	$119,876
	Year 5 (HM18)	$149,886
Registrar Base annual salary for accredited registrars on a specialty training program (HM25-HM30), stepping up each year to a Year 5+ increase at HM29.	Year 1 (HM25)	$129,048
	Year 2 (HM26)	$136,413
	Year 3 (HM27)	$141,612
	Year 4 (HM28)	$148,707
	Year 5 (HM29)	$169,157
	Year 6 (HM30)	$177,622
Senior Medical Officer Base annual salary for Senior Medical Officers (HM21/HM23); Year 2 (HM22) sits between the steps shown. Specialists and consultants sit under a separate agreement not shown here.	Year 1 (HM21)	$168,461
	Year 3 and thereafter (HM23)	$185,722

Showing annual salary rates

Allowances

Allowance	Unit	Amount
Continuing Medical Education (CME) — Intern Hospital Medical Officer Year 1 (Intern); about $3,893 per year. Fixed for the life of the agreement.	Per week	$74.60
Continuing Medical Education (CME) — HMO Years 2 & 3 Hospital Medical Officers Years 2 and 3. Fixed for the life of the agreement.	Per week	$90.90
Continuing Medical Education (CME) — Registrar Registrars. Fixed for the life of the agreement.	Per week	$118.90
Meal allowance — more than 11 hours Work in excess of 11 hours in a 24-hour period.	Per occasion	$11.13
Meal allowance — more than 16 hours Work in excess of 16 hours in a 24-hour period.	Per occasion	$8.94
Location allowance Payable at qualifying locations.	Per week	$50.83
Travelling allowance (vehicle under 3,800cc) Use of own vehicle for hospital business.	Per km	$0.95
Uniforms and laundry allowance Where uniforms are not provided and laundered by the hospital.	Per week	$9.87
Salary packaging — FBT-exempt cap Amount of salary all Victorian public hospital employees can package free of fringe benefits tax; a packaging threshold with the full benefit retained by the employee, not a payment on top of salary.	Per annum	$11,660.00
Afternoon shift allowance — Hospital Medical Officer (Table 4.1) Flat amount per afternoon shift; the agreement pays afternoon shifts a per-shift dollar allowance rather than a percentage loading.	Per shift	$40.96
Afternoon shift allowance — Medical Officer (Table 4.1)	Per shift	$57.63
Afternoon shift allowance — Senior Medical Officer (Table 4.1)	Per shift	$80.99
Afternoon shift allowance — Registrar (Table 4.1)	Per shift	$62.04
Night shift penalty — Intern (HM11) Hourly dollar penalty (25% of the base hourly rate) for night shifts and Friday 6pm to midnight.	Per hour	$10.78
Night shift penalty — HMO Year 2 (HM12)	Per hour	$11.46
Night shift penalty — HMO Year 3 (HM13)	Per hour	$12.43
Night shift penalty — Registrar Year 1 (HM25)	Per hour	$16.33
Night shift penalty — Registrar Year 6 (HM30)	Per hour	$22.47
On-call allowance — Intern (HM11) Passive on-call: available from home, per on-call period (public holidays excluded — see the public-holiday rate). Recall to work is paid on top at overtime rates.	Per period	$69.84
On-call allowance — HMO Year 2 (HM12)	Per period	$74.05
On-call allowance — HMO Year 3 (HM13)	Per period	$80.32
On-call allowance — Registrar Year 1 (HM25)	Per period	$103.53
On-call allowance — Registrar Year 6 (HM30)	Per period	$141.85
On-call allowance, public holiday — Intern (HM11) Higher passive on-call rate when available from home on a public holiday.	Per period	$97.80
On-call allowance, public holiday — HMO Year 2 (HM12)	Per period	$103.96
On-call allowance, public holiday — HMO Year 3 (HM13)	Per period	$112.81
On-call allowance, public holiday — Registrar Year 1 (HM25)	Per period	$144.76
On-call allowance, public holiday — Registrar Year 6 (HM30)	Per period	$198.85

Penalty Rates

Weekend penalty — ordinary hours (cl 37.2)150%

Ordinary hours worked between midnight Friday and midnight Sunday are paid at time and a half — Saturday and Sunday carry the same loading.

Public holiday (cl 63.7)250%

Work on a public holiday.

Overtime — weekday, first 2 hours150%

Time and a half for the first two hours of overtime on a weekday.

Overtime — weekday, after 2 hours200%

Double time for all weekday overtime beyond the first two hours.

Overtime — Sunday200%

All overtime worked on a Sunday is paid at double time.

Recall while on call150%, min 2 hours

Recall from home is paid a minimum of two hours at overtime rates (double time on Sundays), with travel time included, on top of the on-call allowance.

Notes

•These figures are the annual base salary in Australian dollars for doctors employed in Victorian public hospitals, at the agreement's final wage step (first full pay period on or after 1 March 2025).
•The agreement passed its nominal expiry of 28 February 2026 but continues in force under the Fair Work Act until a successor is approved, so the 1 March 2025 rates remain the current published rates.
•Ordinary full-time hours are 38 per week. The agreement also publishes weekly and hourly equivalents derived from the annual salary (annual divided by 52 weeks, then by 38 hours); only the annual salaries are shown here.
•Afternoon shifts attract a flat dollar allowance per shift, and night hours (including Friday 6pm to midnight) attract an hourly dollar penalty equal to 25% of the base hourly rate — both are listed under Allowances because the agreement publishes them as dollar amounts, not percentage loadings.
•Night-penalty and on-call rates are published for every HM classification; only selected classifications (Intern, HMO Years 2-3 and Registrar Years 1 and 6) are shown here.
•Medical Officer Years 2-4 and Senior Medical Officer Year 2 sit between the steps shown. Specialists and consultants are covered by the separate Victorian Public Health Sector (Senior Medical Staff) Enterprise Agreement 2021-2026, which is not included here.
•Doctors under this agreement also receive five weeks of annual leave, 13 days of study leave and 28 days of sick leave per year. Safe-hours provisions cap continuous duty at 16 hours, followed by a minimum eight-hour break.
•Source: Doctors in Training (Victorian Public Health Sector) (AMA Victoria/ASMOF) Enterprise Agreement 2022-2026, Fair Work Commission — https://amavic.com.au/media/iszdojjd/amavic_doctors-in-training-enterprise-agreement-2022-2026.pdf