Staff Specialist / Consultant pay in WA
The base salary for a staff specialist / consultant 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. Arrangement B — the agreement's defined base salary. Most full-time consultants are on Arrangement A, which adds the private practice income allowance. Source: WA Health — Medical Practitioners AMA Industrial Agreement 2024 (WAIRC PSAAG 2 of 2024).
| Step | Base a year |
|---|---|
| Consultant year 1 | $216,637 |
| Consultant year 2 | $227,356 |
| Consultant year 3 | $238,607 |
| Consultant year 4 | $250,425 |
| Consultant year 5 | $262,829 |
| Consultant year 6 | $275,854 |
| Consultant year 7 | $289,531 |
| Consultant year 8 | $303,891 |
| Consultant year 9 | $318,972 |
Base salary only: it leaves out on-call, overtime, penalty rates and super. Under Arrangement A, the same steps pay $343k–$446k a year. 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 (north of the 26th parallel), Arrangement B — the defined base salary. Source: WA Health — Medical Practitioners AMA Industrial Agreement 2024 (WAIRC PSAAG 2 of 2024).
| Step | Base a year |
|---|---|
| Consultant year 1 | $262,829 |
| Consultant year 2 | $275,854 |
| Consultant year 3 | $289,531 |
| Consultant year 4 | $303,891 |
| Consultant year 5 | $318,972 |
| Consultant year 6 | $334,806 |
Base salary only: it leaves out on-call, overtime, penalty rates and super. Under Arrangement A, the same steps pay $389k–$461k a year. Intern, then Resident Medical Officer years 1–3 by years of experience; registrar and senior registrar years by service in the grade.
Current staff specialist / consultant jobs in WA
22 current jobs: see them all. 16 state their pay, below, as the ad or the board gives it; an ad may pay above the award.
- Consultant Physician – Haematology $160k+ band Closes 2 Nov
- Senior Medical Officer - Broome Medical Administration $356k–$412k Closes 13 Nov
- Senior Medical Officer $567k–$650k Closes 13 Nov
- Consultant - Orthopaedic Surgeon $210/hr Closes today, 26 Oct
- Consultant - Physician - General Medicine - Home Hospital $377k–$479k Closes 6 Nov
- Consultant - Paediatric - Anaesthetics $377k–$479k Closes 6 Nov
- Consultant Emergency Medicine - Geraldton Hospital $333k–$433k Closes 31 Dec
- Consultant – Paediatric – Clinical Haematology $160k+ band Closes 3 Nov
- Consultant - Surgeon - Cardiothoracic Surgery $377k–$479k Closes 3 Nov
- Consultant Emergency Medicine $425k–$539k Closes 6 Oct 2027
- Consultant – Surgeon – Plastic Surgery $333k–$433k Closes today, 26 Oct
- Consultant Psychiatrists (CAMHS and Adult) $333k–$448k Closes 24 Dec
- Consultant Psychiatrist – Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service - Albany $160k+ band Closes 23 Nov
- Consultant Psychiatrist $333k Closes 26 Jul 2027
- Consultant - Psychiatrists (CAMHS & Adult) $412k–$523k Closes 24 Dec
- Consultant - Psychiatrist $321k–$417k Closes 31 Dec