{ "name": "Western Australia public hospital doctor wage rates", "profession": "Public hospital doctors", "professionCode": "doctors", "code": "wa", "region": "Western Australia", "country": "Australia", "currency": "AUD", "pageUrl": "https://myrosterapp.com.au/wages/doctors/wa/", "dataUrl": "https://myrosterapp.com.au/wages/doctors/wa/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": "WA Health System - Medical Practitioners - AMA Industrial Agreement 2024 (2024 WAIRC 00992)", "agreementStatus": "Current (nominal expiry 2 Sep 2027)", "datasetCode": "wa", "region": "Western Australia", "country": "Australia", "currency": "AUD", "fullTimeHoursPerWeek": 38, "weeksPerYear": 52.16666667, "sourceFrequency": "annual", "effectiveDates": [ "2025-09-03", "2026-09-03" ], "sourceUrls": [ "https://www.health.wa.gov.au/~/media/Corp/Documents/Health-for/Industrial-relations/Awards-and-agreements/Doctors/Medical-practitioners-AMA-industrial-agreement-2024.pdf" ], "roles": [ { "title": "Intern", "description": "Base annual salary for first-year interns (PGY1). Shift, weekend and overtime loadings apply on top of the base salary.", "grade": "Doctor in Training", "payPoints": [ { "id": "intern-pgy1", "label": "PGY1", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-09-03", "annual": 90864, "hourly": 45.84, "weekly": 1741.8 }, { "effectiveDate": "2026-09-03", "annual": 93590, "hourly": 47.21, "weekly": 1794.06 } ] } ] }, { "title": "Resident Medical Officer", "description": "Base annual salary by year of service after internship (PGY2-PGY4).", "grade": "Doctor in Training", "payPoints": [ { "id": "rmo-1", "label": "Year 1 (PGY2)", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-09-03", "annual": 99395, "hourly": 50.14, "weekly": 1905.34 } ] }, { "id": "rmo-2", "label": "Year 2 (PGY3)", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-09-03", "annual": 108776, "hourly": 54.87, "weekly": 2085.16 } ] }, { "id": "rmo-3", "label": "Year 3 (PGY4)", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-09-03", "annual": 119165, "hourly": 60.11, "weekly": 2284.31 } ] } ] }, { "title": "Registrar", "description": "Base annual salary. The agreement has a seven-year Registrar scale; the entry, mid-scale and top steps (Years 1, 3 and 7) are shown.", "grade": "Doctor in Training", "payPoints": [ { "id": "reg-1", "label": "Year 1", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-09-03", "annual": 125010, "hourly": 63.06, "weekly": 2396.36 } ] }, { "id": "reg-3", "label": "Year 3", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-09-03", "annual": 140819, "hourly": 71.04, "weekly": 2699.41 } ] }, { "id": "reg-7", "label": "Year 7", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-09-03", "annual": 170682, "hourly": 86.1, "weekly": 3271.86 } ] } ] }, { "title": "Senior Registrar", "description": "Base annual salary for the first two Senior Registrar yearly steps, a distinct scale above Registrar.", "grade": "Doctor in Training", "payPoints": [ { "id": "sreg-1", "label": "Year 1", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-09-03", "annual": 183317, "hourly": 92.48, "weekly": 3514.06 } ] }, { "id": "sreg-2", "label": "Year 2", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-09-03", "annual": 192371, "hourly": 97.04, "weekly": 3687.62 } ] } ] }, { "title": "Consultant", "description": "Base annual salary under Arrangement A of the agreement (Table 2). The entry and top steps (Years 1 and 9) of the nine-year scale are shown.", "grade": "Senior Practitioner", "payPoints": [ { "id": "cons-1", "label": "Year 1", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-09-03", "annual": 333305, "hourly": 168.14, "weekly": 6389.23 } ] }, { "id": "cons-9", "label": "Year 9", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2025-09-03", "annual": 432658, "hourly": 218.26, "weekly": 8293.76 } ] } ] } ], "allowances": [ { "name": "Professional Development Allowance — Intern/RMO", "description": "Interns and Resident Medical Officers; payable pro rata fortnightly.", "unit": "Per annum", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2024-09-03", "amount": 6268 } ] }, { "name": "Professional Development Allowance — Registrar", "description": "Registrars and Supervised Medical Officers; rises to $11,380 in 2025.", "unit": "Per annum", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2024-09-03", "amount": 10969 } ] }, { "name": "Professional Development Allowance — Senior Registrar", "unit": "Per annum", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2024-09-03", "amount": 15671 } ] }, { "name": "Professional Development Allowance — Arrangement A (cl 30(6))", "description": "Senior Practitioners under Arrangement A; replaces the standard professional development allowance for this cohort.", "unit": "Per annum", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2024-09-03", "amount": 33442 } ] }, { "name": "On-Call Allowance — Doctor in Training", "description": "Payable per hour of availability to return to work outside normal hours; set at 18.75% of the Registrar Year 4 base hourly rate.", "unit": "Per hour", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2024-09-03", "amount": 12.8 } ] }, { "name": "On-Call Allowance — Senior Practitioner", "description": "Payable per hour of availability to return to work outside normal hours; set at 18.75% of the Consultant Year 7 (Arrangement B) hourly rate.", "unit": "Per hour", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2024-09-03", "amount": 24.35 } ] }, { "name": "Gratuity Payment", "description": "Payable after the first 3 years of continuous service, followed by 4 weeks salary for each subsequent year.", "unit": "Lump sum", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2024-09-03", "amount": "12 weeks salary" } ] }, { "name": "Study Leave", "description": "Paid study/professional development leave, inclusive of exam leave; accrues pro rata weekly.", "unit": "Per year", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2024-09-03", "amount": "3 weeks" } ] }, { "name": "Examination Leave", "description": "To attend examinations for higher qualifications; includes 3 clear days free from duty immediately prior to the exam.", "unit": "Per occasion", "rates": [ { "effectiveDate": "2024-09-03", "amount": "4 days" } ] } ], "penalties": [ { "name": "Afternoon shift loading — weekday", "rate": "20%", "description": "Hours worked between 6:00pm and midnight, Monday to Friday." }, { "name": "Night shift loading — weekday", "rate": "25%", "description": "Hours worked between midnight and 8:00am, Monday to Friday." }, { "name": "Saturday loading", "rate": "50%", "description": "All hours worked on a Saturday." }, { "name": "Sunday loading", "rate": "75%", "description": "From midnight Saturday to 8:00am Monday." }, { "name": "Public holiday", "rate": "250%", "description": "Double time and a half from the midnight commencement of the holiday to 8:00am the following day; alternatively time and a half plus a day in lieu (maximum 5 days accumulated)." }, { "name": "Overtime — beyond 80 hours per fortnight", "rate": "150%", "description": "Hours in excess of 80 per two-week cycle." }, { "name": "Overtime — beyond 120 hours per fortnight", "rate": "200%", "description": "Hours in excess of 120 per two-week cycle." }, { "name": "Extended shift overtime — Monday to Saturday", "rate": "150% / 200%", "description": "For shifts exceeding 10 hours: time and a half for the first 3 hours beyond 10 hours, double time thereafter." }, { "name": "Extended shift overtime — Sunday", "rate": "200%", "description": "Double time for all hours beyond 10 on a shift exceeding 10 hours on a Sunday." }, { "name": "Recall to work — Doctor in Training", "rate": "150-200%", "description": "Minimum 3 hours payment per recall. Time and a half between 6:00am and midnight (Monday to Saturday), 175% on Sundays between 6:00am and midnight, and double time between midnight and 6:00am on any day or for recall work in excess of 3 hours." }, { "name": "Recall to work — Senior Practitioner", "rate": "150-200%", "description": "Paid per the hourly recall table (Schedule 1, Table 3): time and a half between 6:00am and midnight (Monday to Saturday), 175% on Sundays between 6:00am and midnight, and double time between midnight and 6:00am. Minimum 3 hours payment per recall." }, { "name": "Annual leave loading", "rate": "17.5%", "description": "Loading applied to annual leave. The agreement also provides an additional week of annual leave for each completed year of continuous service." } ], "notes": [ "These figures are the annual base salary in Australian dollars under the WA Health System - Medical Practitioners - AMA Industrial Agreement 2024, which covers doctors employed in the WA public health system. The agreement provides three increases: 4.75% from 3 September 2024, 3.75% from 3 September 2025 and 3% from 3 September 2026 — the rates shown are the 3 September 2025 column.", "The 3 September 2026 rates (a further 3% increase) are printed in the agreement for all classifications; only the Intern rate for that date is listed here.", "Ordinary full-time hours are 38 per week. The agreement converts annual salary to an hourly rate as annual ÷ 52.1666 ÷ 38 (clause 12(6)); the weekly and hourly figures it publishes are arithmetic conversions of the annual salaries and are not listed separately.", "Not every yearly step is listed: the Registrar scale runs to Year 7, Senior Registrar has further steps beyond Year 2, and the Consultant (Arrangement A) scale runs to Year 9 — intermediate steps sit between the figures shown.", "Consultant rates shown are Arrangement A (Table 2); the agreement also contains a separate Arrangement B remuneration structure for senior practitioners, which is not listed here.", "On-call is paid as an hourly availability allowance (shown under Allowances), and recall to work is paid at the penalty rates shown with a minimum of 3 hours per recall — or a minimum of 1 hour where the work is done remotely without returning to the workplace. On-call frequency is limited to one day in three except in emergencies, and on-call rosters must be posted at least 14 days in advance.", "Roster protections: no split shifts, no night shifts immediately prior to approved leave, and rosters must be published 14 days in advance (21 where possible). Continuous duty is capped at 16 hours, followed by a minimum 8-hour break.", "Annual leave is 5 weeks per year with a 17.5% loading. Allowance and on-call figures are the 3 September 2024 schedule rates; the professional development allowances step up in later years of the agreement.", "Source: WA Health System - Medical Practitioners - AMA Industrial Agreement 2024 (2024 WAIRC 00992), Western Australian Industrial Relations Commission — https://www.health.wa.gov.au/~/media/Corp/Documents/Health-for/Industrial-relations/Awards-and-agreements/Doctors/Medical-practitioners-AMA-industrial-agreement-2024.pdf" ] } ] }