GP Registrar Pay in Australia 2026: NTCER Base Rates & the Billings Floor

GP registrars aren't paid a straight hospital award salary. Your minimums come from the NTCER (National Terms and Conditions for the Employment of Registrars), and these are the current numbers under v2026.2.

Next step: model a billings week, then apply your percentage, or check the salaried side with the take-home pay calculator. For what this builds toward once you fellow, see GP salary in Australia.

• Base rates
• The 44.79% floor
• Superannuation
• What is the NTCER?
• GP vs hospital
• Take-home
• FAQ

NTCER minimum base rates (v2026.2)

These are the minimum full-time base salaries by training level under NTCER v2026.2, effective from the first full pay period after 1 July 2026. Full-time is a 38-hour week; 12% super is paid on top.

Minimum full-time base salaries, NTCER v2026.2, effective from the first full pay period after 1 July 2026 (GPRA base rates); there is no separate higher GPT4 rate, as GPT4/PRRT4 sit at the "GPT3 and above" level. Older superseded figures still circulate online, so check any quoted rate against the v2026.2 effective date before relying on it.

The 44.79% billings floor and the higher-of rule

Alongside the base rates above, the NTCER guarantees a minimum 44.79% of your in-hours, after-hours and on-call gross billings or receipts, known simply as "the percentage". Each pay period you receive whichever is higher of your base rate or the percentage, never the two added together.

• Reconciled at least monthly. The practice must reconcile your percentage against your base rate and pay any shortfall no less frequently than once each month. (This tightened from a longer quarterly cycle in the recent review; a monthly cycle favours the registrar.)
• A floor, not a ceiling. The NTCER explicitly permits a higher base rate and/or a higher percentage, and practices do offer them, particularly to attract registrars to rural or high-demand practices.
• Watch "inclusive of super". The 12% super must be added on top of the percentage, never bundled into the 44.79%.

Early in a term your billings are still ramping up, so the base rate usually does the work. As billings build through the year the percentage overtakes it, which is why most registrars end up earning more than the headline base figure.

Superannuation

GP registrars receive 12% superannuation, the final legislated Superannuation Guarantee rate from 1 July 2025, with no further scheduled increases. Under the NTCER it's applied to whichever floor applies that pay period and added on top, not counted within the 44.79%. From 1 July 2026, "payday super" also applies, meaning employers must pay your super at the same time as your wages rather than quarterly.

What is the NTCER?

The National Terms and Conditions for the Employment of Registrars (NTCER) is the agreement that sets the minimum employment terms for GP registrars. It's jointly owned and updated by General Practice Registrars Australia (GPRA) and GP Supervision Australia (GPSA), and it covers base salary, the percentage-of-billings floor, superannuation, leave, and on-call/after-hours arrangements.

It applies to GP registrars training on the AGPT (Australian General Practice Training) pathway. For non-AGPT pathways such as the RVTS, the NTCER is recommended as a template rather than being automatically binding on every employer, so check what your specific contract adopts. The current version is NTCER v2026.2, which supersedes all earlier versions.

GP registrar vs hospital registrar pay

• Different instruments. GP registrars are paid under the NTCER; hospital registrars are paid a straight salary under their state award or enterprise agreement, with overtime and penalty rates on top.
• The headline base can look lower for GP. A first-stage GP registrar's NTCER base ($99,847.28/yr) sits below a typical Year-1 hospital-registrar award base, but that base is only the floor, and billings lift most GP registrars above it while hospital registrars add overtime and penalties to theirs.

For the actual hospital-registrar award figures, see our NSW registrar pay page and our guide to unaccredited registrar pay. Those are state-award salaries, not NTCER figures, so the two systems shouldn't be read off the same scale.

What actually lands in your account

Whichever floor applies, the figures above are gross. Your take-home still has income tax, the Medicare levy and any HECS/HELP repayment taken out, and if you bill as a contractor in some arrangements the tax treatment can differ again. To model the salaried-equivalent side on your own numbers, use the take-home pay calculator; for the percentage side, gross depends on your billing volume, which you can model with the GP billings calculator.

FAQ

Sources & methodology

The base rates, the 44.79% percentage floor, the "higher of" mechanism, the 12% super rule and the monthly reconciliation cycle are drawn from the current NTCER (v2026.2) and its published agreement, jointly maintained by GPRA and GP Supervision Australia. Base rates are quoted with their effective date (first full pay period after 1 July 2026); older, superseded rate sets are not published here as current.

The hospital-registrar comparison points to our state award pages for the actual salaried figures, because hospital registrars are on state awards, not the NTCER. Nothing here is personal financial or contract advice; check your own agreement and get advice on contractor/tax structure before you sign.

• Base rates of pay for GP registrars – GPRA (current v2026.2 rate table)
• The NTCER – GPRA (version, scope and framing)
• NTCER v2026.1 full agreement (PDF) – GPRA (44.79% percentage clause, 12% super, higher-of mechanism, billing cycle)
• GP Registrar Remuneration – GP Supervision Australia (base rates, 44.79% + 12% super, monthly billing cycle)
• NTCER hub – GP Supervision Australia (NTCER ownership and updates)
• GPRA & GPSA finalise the 2025 NTCER review – GPRA (announcement)