Doctors’ Salaries Australia Doctors’ Salaries Australia A doctor and GP salary in Australia can vary slightly from state to state but below table gives a guide to what you can expect in terms of remuneration from a position. Please note that after overtime and on-call work have been taken into account, these salaries will be approximately 15-25% higher. Salary packaging in Australia Salary packaging is a perk available to all public hospital employees in Australia. It’s a tax-minimisation system allowing you to receive up to 30% of your salary as tax-free. The system involves “sacrificing” a portion of your salary and then claiming it back tax free, through your spending on items such as computers, mortgage or rent, petrol expenses, household utility bills. Upon showing the receipts for these items, you can receive your income to the value of these receipts free of tax. |