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Pay / Specialist

Specialist (consultant) pay

Vocationally registered senior doctors — consultants — are on the 15-step specialist scale of the ASMS agreement.

$198,386Step 1
$282,645Step 15
$343,500Average packageHealth NZ, Sept 2025

The specialist scale, calculator and rules

Step ladder, job-size calculator, CME, leave, on-call, placement.

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Full table, all rate dates

Every step at 1 Jan 2024, 5 Jan 2026 and 6 Jul 2026.

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The agreement

Coverage, term, every rule with its clause.

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Source

Signed agreement, Health New Zealand (searchable) · checked 18 September 2026 — Salary tables on pages 9 and 10 of the PDF checked against the page image digit for digit.