TAS Intern & Resident Pay 2026–27

This page is for TAS interns, Resident Medical Officers (RMOs) and early-career doctors who want the practical pay picture without registrar rows. It focuses on base salary, estimated take-home, intern-to-resident progression, after-hours penalties, leave and on-call or recall items that can affect real payslips.

By Jacob Stretton, RN & final-year medical student · figures sourced from the public EBAs & the ATO · About & methodology →

Key takeaways

• Resident - Year 1 is $98,133: a $5,835 base increase before roster effects.
• Weekday after-hours ordinary time is +25%, while Saturday and Sunday ordinary time are +50%.
• Annual leave is listed as 152 hours per year, with an extra 38 hours after enough weekend/public holiday days.

• Pay by level
• Early-career penalty-rate table
• Worked examples

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

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

This page covers intern, resident, RMO and house officer pay in Tasmania.

Rates effective first full pay period on or after 1 January 2026 (next increase anticipated ffpp on/after 1 January 2027 under the successor agreement now in negotiation) · Medical Practitioners (Tasmanian State Service) Agreement 2025 (TIC T15338 of 2026; 3% one-year AMA rollover of the 2022 Agreement) · source.

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

• Classification and year level set the base row before roster effects.
• Weekday after-hours, weekend, public holiday, on-call and recall inputs can move pay beyond ordinary salary.
• Annual leave, study leave, examination leave and meal allowance items 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.

Early-career penalty-rate table

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

Leave and study items for interns and residents

These items affect practical job value alongside base salary.

• Annual leave is listed as 152 hours per year.
• An extra 38 hours of annual leave is listed if you work at least 20 weekend or public holiday days in the year.
• Study leave is handled under Tasmanian State Service Regulations and local approval rules.
• Examination leave can be granted for approved courses of study and is not cumulative with study leave used for examinations.
• Public holidays falling during annual leave are added back where they would otherwise have been ordinary working days.

Allowances and entitlement checks for early-career doctors

These are practical payslip checks when the relevant roster, appointment or travel condition applies.

• On-call allowance is listed as 5% to 15% of base salary depending on roster frequency.
• Recall/call-back has a 1-hour minimum and is separate from on-call availability.
• Meal allowance amounts are listed for eligible overtime or travel meal claims.
• Medical practitioners in training have a listed roster cap of 70 hours in one week and 136 hours in one fortnight unless agreed otherwise.

Worked examples (TAS)

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

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