Career Medical Officer pay in SA
The base salary for a career medical officer in South Australia’s public hospitals, step by step, from the SA Health Salaried Medical Officers agreement 2025. These are the award’s own rates, not what any job pays.
SA Health Salaried Medical Officers agreement 2025
Rates in force from 14 April 2026. Approved 20 October 2025; nominal expiry 20 October 2028. Schedule 1 rates (general public sector salary sacrifice scheme). Source: SA Health Salaried Medical Officers Enterprise Agreement 2025 (SAET ET-25-03807).
| Step | Base a year |
|---|---|
| Senior Medical Practitioner step 1 | $182,805 |
| Senior Medical Practitioner step 2 | $192,345 |
| Senior Medical Practitioner step 3 | $207,445 |
| Senior Medical Practitioner step 4 | $219,369 |
| Senior Medical Practitioner step 5 | $227,267 |
| Senior Medical Practitioner step 6 | $235,449 |
Base salary only: it leaves out on-call, overtime, penalty rates and super, and the attraction and retention allowance on consultant base (30% to 67% by specialty, clause 32). One Medical Practitioner ladder: step n is postgraduate year n, advancing a further step on acceptance into an accredited training program (clause 56). Consultant steps 1–4 and Senior Consultant 5–9 are the "MD2" classification.
Current career medical officer jobs in SA
No career medical officer jobs in SA are open today. The list shows them as boards advertise them.