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Staff Specialist / Consultant pay in ACT

The base salary for a staff specialist / consultant in Australian Capital Territory’s public hospitals, step by step, from the ACT Medical Practitioners Determination 2023–2026. These are the award’s own rates, not what any job pays.

ACT Medical Practitioners Determination 2023–2026

Rates in force from 4 December 2025. A Fair Work Commission determination; nominally expired 31 March 2026 and still in force while a replacement is negotiated. Source: ACT Public Sector Medical Practitioners Determination 2023-2026 (as varied).

Staff Specialist / Consultant base salary steps, ACT Medical Practitioners Determination 2023–2026
StepBase a year
Specialist Band 1$204,936
Specialist Band 2$216,558
Specialist Band 3$228,168
Specialist Band 4$239,815
Specialist Band 5$251,445

Base salary only: it leaves out on-call, overtime, penalty rates and super, and the 17.4% on-call allowance for specialists regularly on call, and private practice schemes. Clause 15.1 ties junior grades to postgraduate year: PGY1 Intern, PGY2 RMO 1, PGY3 SRMO 1 / Junior Registrar, PGY4 SRMO 2 / Registrar 1, PGY5 SRMO 3 / Registrar 2, PGY6 Registrar 3, PGY7 Registrar 4; Senior Registrar by promotion.

Current staff specialist / consultant jobs in ACT

5 current jobs: see them all. None states its pay; the list shows each one’s award estimate.