Career Medical Officer pay in NSW
The base salary for a career medical officer in New South Wales’s public hospitals, step by step, from the NSW Public Hospital Medical Officers award. These are the award’s own rates, not what any job pays.
NSW Public Hospital Medical Officers award
Rates in force from 1 July 2025. Interim 3% increases while the awards are in arbitration before the NSW Industrial Relations Commission; the final decision may change these rates, with back-pay. Source: NSW Health Information Bulletin IB2026_007.
| Step | Base a year |
|---|---|
| Career Medical Officer Grade 1, year 1 | $147,664 |
| Career Medical Officer Grade 1, year 2 | $159,061 |
| Career Medical Officer Grade 1, year 3 | $166,025 |
| Career Medical Officer Grade 1, year 4 | $171,629 |
| Career Medical Officer Grade 1, year 5 | $178,407 |
| Career Medical Officer Grade 2, year 1 | $185,269 |
| Career Medical Officer Grade 2, year 2 | $191,027 |
| Career Medical Officer Grade 2, year 3 | $202,226 |
| Career Medical Officer Grade 2, year 4 | $220,018 |
| Senior Career Medical Officer, 1st year | $236,905 |
| Senior Career Medical Officer, thereafter | $254,254 |
Base salary only: it leaves out on-call, overtime, penalty rates and super. Resident and registrar years by years of service; Resident 1st year is the year after internship (PGY2).
Current career medical officer jobs in NSW
5 current jobs: see them all. 5 state their pay, below, as the ad or the board gives it; an ad may pay above the award.
- New Career Medical Officer Emergency Medicine Eurobodalla Regional Hospital $148k–$178k Closes 8 Nov
- Career Medical Officer - Emergency Department - Cessnock Hospital - Hunter Valley NSW (CMO ED) Medical Administration $185k–$220k Closes 15 Nov
- Career Medical Officer General Medicine Griffith Base Hospital $148k–$178k Closes 1 Nov
- Career Medical Officer in Obstetrics & Gynaecology - Manning Base Hospital $185k–$220k Closes 6 Dec
- Career Medical Officer in Emergency Medicine - Manning Base Hospital $148k–$178k Closes 6 Dec