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Allowances / Additional duties (voluntary, paid on top of salary)

Additional duties (voluntary, paid on top of salary)

How NZRDA and STONZ each pay this, side by side.

AgreementRateClause
RDA (NZRDA) CA 2026-2028Hourly, by grade and time of day — see table.11.2
STONZ RMO CA 2026-2028Hourly, by grade and time of day — see table.15.2

Rates

Grade08:00–22:0022:00–08:00
House Officer$60/hr$90/hr
Senior House Officer$75/hr$115/hr
Registrar$85/hr$130/hr
Senior Registrar$120/hr$180/hr

Registrar in a recognised vocational training programme who has passed Part I exams or equivalent and is on Step 4 or higher of the Registrar scale. These hours do not count toward your run category. This table is also the floor for locum shifts.

Source

Signed agreement, Health New Zealand · checked 3 September 2026

Online version published by NZRDA · checked 3 September 2026 — Salary tables agree digit-for-digit with the signed scan's OCR layer and with page images of pages 13, 14 and 16 of the signed PDF.

Agreement published by Health New Zealand · checked 3 September 2026