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Registrar pay in WA

The base salary for a registrar in Western Australia’s public hospitals, step by step, from the WA Health AMA Industrial Agreement 2024. These are the award’s own rates, not what any job pays.

WA Health AMA Industrial Agreement 2024: South of the 26th parallel

Rates in force from 3 September 2026. Registered 28 November 2024; nominal expiry 2 September 2027. Source: WA Health — Medical Practitioners AMA Industrial Agreement 2024 (WAIRC PSAAG 2 of 2024).

Registrar base salary steps, WA Health AMA Industrial Agreement 2024, south of the 26th parallel
StepBase a year
Registrar year 1$128,760
Registrar year 2$135,085
Registrar year 3$145,044
Registrar year 4$152,180
Registrar year 5$159,674
Registrar year 6$167,541
Registrar year 7$175,802

Base salary only: it leaves out on-call, overtime, penalty rates and super, and the Professional Development Allowance, paid separately. Intern, then Resident Medical Officer years 1–3 by years of experience; registrar and senior registrar years by service in the grade.

WA Health AMA Industrial Agreement 2024: North of the 26th parallel

Rates in force from 3 September 2026. Schedule 3: WA Country Health Service north of the 26th parallel. Registrar years 4 and above do not apply there. Source: WA Health — Medical Practitioners AMA Industrial Agreement 2024 (WAIRC PSAAG 2 of 2024).

Registrar base salary steps, WA Health AMA Industrial Agreement 2024, north of the 26th parallel
StepBase a year
Registrar year 1$152,180
Registrar year 2$159,674
Registrar year 3$167,541

Base salary only: it leaves out on-call, overtime, penalty rates and super. Intern, then Resident Medical Officer years 1–3 by years of experience; registrar and senior registrar years by service in the grade.

Current registrar jobs in WA

6 current jobs: see them all. 6 state their pay, below, as the ad or the board gives it; an ad may pay above the award.

  1. Registrar - Trainee - Pathology - Forensic PathWest · Perth, WA $129k–$176k Closes 6 Nov
  2. Registrar - Trainee - Paediatrics - Immunisation Child and Adolescent Health Service · Child and Adolescent Health Service, WA · Board lists it under Medical Practitioner $125k–$171k Closes 2 Nov
  3. Fellow - Ophthalmic Surgery Royal Perth Hospital · Perth, WA · Board lists it under Medical Practitioner $183k–$192k Closes tomorrow, 27 Oct
  4. Registrar - Service - Psychiatry Rockingham Peel Group · Rockingham Peel Group, WA · Board lists it under Medical Practitioner $125k–$171k Closes Wed 28 Oct
  5. Rural Registrar Psychiatry Trainee (RPTWA) - Transfer Pool WA Country Health Service · Goldfields, WA · Ad requires medical registration $176k–$379k Closes 13 Nov
  6. Senior Registrar / Fellow - Anaesthesia East Metropolitan Health Service · Perth, WA $189k–$198k Closes 8 Mar 2028