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Staff Specialist / Consultant pay in SA

The base salary for a staff specialist / consultant 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).

Staff Specialist / Consultant base salary steps, SA Health Salaried Medical Officers agreement 2025
StepBase a year
Consultant step 1$243,212
Consultant step 2$252,751
Consultant step 3$262,291
Consultant step 4$276,594

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 staff specialist / consultant jobs in SA

14 current jobs: see them all. 11 state their pay, below, as the ad or the board gives it; an ad may pay above the award.

  1. Consultant - Renal Northern Adelaide Local Health Network · Adelaide, SA · Ad requires medical registration $377k–$848k Closes 6 Nov
  2. Obstetric and Gynaecology Consultant - Multiple Positions up to 1.0 FTE Northern Adelaide Local Health Network · Adelaide, SA · Ad requires medical registration $377k–$848k Closes 6 Nov
  3. Consultant/Senior Consultant - Paediatric Rheumatology (WCH) Women's and Children's Health Network · Adelaide, SA · Ad confirms a doctor's role $243k–$320k Closes 18 Nov
  4. Paediatric Anaesthetic Consultant Women's and Children's Health Network · Adelaide, SA · Ad requires medical registration $243k–$320k Closes 18 Nov
  5. National Lung Cancer Screening Program - Respiratory Consultant Central Adelaide Local Health Network · Adelaide, SA · Ad requires medical registration $367k–$491k Closes 1 Nov
  6. Haematology Consultant Central Adelaide Local Health Network · Adelaide, SA · Ad confirms a doctor's role $367k–$491k Closes 1 Nov
  7. Consultant, Emergency Department Limestone Coast Local Health Network · South East, SA · Ad requires medical registration $479k–$624k Closes 8 Nov
  8. Consultant Neonatologist Southern Adelaide Local Health Network · Adelaide, SA · Ad requires medical registration $297k–$383k Closes 3 Nov
  9. Emergency Consultant Yorke and Northern Local Health Network · Various, SA · Ad requires medical registration $366k–$604k Closes 30 Jun 2027
  10. Anatomical Pathology Consultant Talent Pool Central Adelaide Local Health Network · Various, SA · Posted Apr 2026 · Ad confirms a doctor's role $367k Closes 30 Mar 2027
  11. Consultant - Physician General Medicine Barossa Hills Fleurieu Local Health Network · Barossa Hills Fleurieu, SA $243k–$320k Closes 13 Nov