ACT Intern & Resident Pay 2025–26

Takeaways

• ACT intern base salary is $88,485.
• Resident - Year 1 is $102,486: a $14,001 base increase before roster effects.
• Early-career penalties include +12.5% evening, +25% night, +50% Saturday, +75% Sunday and +150% public holiday rates.
• Education allowance is listed as $1,150 per year for interns and $3,319 per year for Resident Medical Officer Year 1, Senior Resident Medical Officer Year 1 and junior registrar rows.

ACT Intern & Resident Pay Levels (Base Salary and Estimated Take-Home)

Filtered to the early-career ACT rows so you can compare intern and resident pay without registrar lines getting in the way.

This page focuses on intern, resident, RMO, and house officer style pay lines drawn from the current Australian Capital Territory pay table.

What changes intern & resident take-home pay in ACT?

• Classification and year level set the base row before roster effects.
• Evening, night, Saturday, Sunday, public holiday and overtime inputs can move pay beyond ordinary salary.
• Education allowance, on-call, digital recall, workplace recall and overtime meal allowance are practical checks when they apply.
• Higher Education Contribution Scheme/Higher Education Loan Program (HECS/HELP) withholding and salary packaging settings still decide what lands in your bank account.

What changes between intern and resident pay in ACT?

The first ACT pay step is moving off the intern row, then adding the roster, education and leave items that apply to the term.

• The base table moves from $88,485 for Intern to $102,486 for Resident - Year 1 — $14,001 more before roster effects.
• ACT intern and resident rows use 38 ordinary hours per week.
• Model evening, night, weekend, public holiday, overtime, on-call and recall inputs separately rather than treating the base row as the full pay picture.
• Education allowance, protected teaching time, study time and conference leave affect job value alongside base salary.

Early-career penalty-rate table

Use these ACT rates to model the roster you actually work; the base salary row does not include roster-driven additions.

Leave, teaching and education allowance for interns and residents

These items affect practical job value alongside base salary.

• Education allowance is listed as $1,150 per year for interns and $3,319 per year for Resident Medical Officer Year 1, Senior Resident Medical Officer Year 1 and junior registrar rows.
• Annual leave is 5 weeks (190 hours) per year, plus up to 5 extra days if you work at least 10 Sundays in a year.
• Personal leave is listed as 136.8 hours per year for 38-hour workers.
• Resident Medical Officers, registrars and senior registrars can access up to 4 hours study time per week under the study leave clause — interns are excluded from this entitlement.
• Interns and PGY1/PGY2 Resident Medical Officers must have 2 hours of protected teaching time each week, free from clinical duties and pagers.

Allowances and entitlement checks for early-career doctors

These are practical payslip checks when the relevant roster or duty condition applies.

• On-call allowance is paid at the rate of the first hour of overtime for each on-call period, once per 24 hours.
• Digital recall has a 1-hour minimum at overtime rates.
• Workplace recall has a 4-hour minimum at overtime rates.
• Overtime meal allowance can apply if unnotified overtime extends across breakfast, lunch or dinner thresholds.

Common early-career pay scenarios

These are existing calculator presets, not promises about a usual roster.

Worked examples (ACT)

* Estimated after tax and HECS/HELP. Your actual payslip will depend on roster mix, allowances, and deductions.

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