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Guides for Australian Doctors
Plain-English guides to the parts of a medical career that aren't taught at medical school — getting an internship, the international-graduate pathway, how pay compares between states, and the tax and money decisions that shape your take-home.
Starting out
Pay & money
Pay comparison
Junior doctor base salary and take-home pay compared side by side across the states and territories.
Salary packaging
How salary packaging works for hospital doctors — what you can package and how it changes your take-home.
HECS/HELP
Managing a HECS/HELP debt as a junior doctor — indexation, repayment thresholds and how packaging interacts.
Locum work
Where locum work fits alongside a salaried job — how rates compare and what to weigh up before taking it on.