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Intern pay in NSW

The base salary for an intern 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.

Intern base salary steps, NSW Public Hospital Medical Officers award
StepBase a year
Intern$80,638

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 intern jobs in NSW

No intern jobs in NSW are open today. The list shows them as boards advertise them.