Updated to reflect our new agreement.
Pay Scale
Salary (full time)
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Base Pay |
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PD Allowance Paid in fortnightly installments |
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DiT Support Payment Paid in fortnightly installments |
4,000 |
Penalty Rates
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Weekdays 8:00 am til 6:00 pm |
1.0x |
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Evenings 6:00 pm til midnight |
1.2x |
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Weeknights midnight til 8:00 am |
1.25x |
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Saturdays midnight til midnight |
1.5x |
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Sundays midnight til 8:00 am Monday |
1.75x |
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Public Holidays midnight til 8:00 am the next day |
2.5x |
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Overtime after 10 hours in a shift after 80 hours in a fortnight |
1.5x |
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Mega Overtime after 120 hours in a fortnight |
2.0x |
Recall Rates
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On Call 18.75% of Registrar Yr 4 |
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First three hours 6:00 am til midnight |
1.5x |
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First three hours on Sundays 6:00 am til midnight |
1.75x |
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First three hours at night midnight til 6:00 am |
2.0x |
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All subsequent hours any time of day |
2.0x |
You always get paid for at least three hours.
Leave Entitlements (full time)
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Personal Leave |
80 hours |
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Annual Leave |
160 hours |
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PD Leave Accrue up to nine weeks |
3 weeks |
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Additional Leave |
≤ 40 hours |
Eight hours of Additional Leave is granted when you:
- Work seven Sundays or public holidays
- Complete 120 hours on call
Additional Leave is credited to your balance yearly in October. You can use it just like normal annual leave.
Meal Allowances
You get a meal allowance if food is not provided and your shift lasts for more than 10 hours (excluding breaks).
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Breakfast |
12.05 |
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Lunch |
14.85 |
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Dinner |
17.80 |
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Supper |
12.05 |
Rates are periodically updated in Schedule H of the Public Service Award (1992).
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Data Sources
- Your Salary is the percentage change in an intern's salary since 2018. Since all DiT salaries increase at the same rate, this represents wage growth at all levels.
- Inflation is the consumer price index (CPI) for the September quarter in that year, as reported by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Though it's not a perfect measure of inflation, it's the best one we have.
- AHPRA Fees are the annual fees for general registration published on APHRA's website. Historical fees were accessed using The Internet Archive.
- Perth Rent is the median weekly rent paid for a unit in Perth during the September quarter in that year, as reported by REIWA.
The complete dataset is available on GitHub.
Top Tips
- When overtime claims are refused, heads of department must provide reasons in writing
- If your leave application is declined, they are required to tell you when you can take leave
- Where possible, rosters will be published 21 days prior to their commencement
- You should be rostered off every second weekend
- If you are too tired to drive, you get a taxi voucher home and back to work
- You can’t be rostered on more than four nights in a row
- Shifts starting after midday cannot last more than 12 hours
- You are entitled to a paid 30 minute break every shift
- If you have not taken leave for one year, you only need to give two weeks of notice before taking it (no application needed)
- If you don’t work on a public holiday, you still get eight hours of non-penalty pay