Doctors salaries in Ireland

In fact, a minority are already on pay, including overtime, that is in excess of the newly-reduced pay rates set for new entrant consultants of around €120,000.

Basic junior doctor salaries in Ireland range from €30,000 for an intern just out of medical school to €76,000-€79,000 for a specialist or senior registrar at the top of the scale. This does not include some generous allowances juniors are also entitled to.

Nearly all junior doctors work overtime - the average working week for a junior at the moment is around 54 hours. However, there are huge variations in both the level of overtime worked and the amount of overtime paid - some trainee doctors have to work around 70 to 100 hours per week.

One (presumably exhausted) junior doctor earned a massive €153,250 in overtime pay last year, according to the HSE.

If we can take it that this trainee doctor was already probably on a basic salary of around €60,000 plus, his or her annual income was over €200,000 - higher than the basic pay of many consultants working in the public sector.

This is an extreme case, but gives you some idea of how crazy the system is.

While the HSE has made some attempts to reduce the level of overtime worked by juniors , many trainees still work in excess of the set EU working time limit of 48 hours per week. The taxpayer paid out €165 million for trainee doctor overtime last year.

The average overtime payment per trainee doctor last year was €31,000. Therefore, a specialist registrar at the top of of the basic pay scale getting average overtime pay could earn €110,000.

Juniors here generally get higher basic pay than their equivalents in the UK, which is the most directly comparable healthcare system to ours.

A look at comparative pay scales shows that junior doctors in the UK generally earn between 10% and 30% less in basic pay than their Irish counterparts.

For example, a senior house officer (SHO) at the top of the scale earns €48,326 compared to €54,746 here - a 13% differential.

A specialist registrar at the higher end of the pay scale in the UK earns €58,323 compared to €76,062-€79,000 for similar grades in Ireland - a 30% plus differential.

Also, overtime payments for juniors in the UK are generally lower than in Ireland.

In the UK, trainee doctors get supplementary pay based on extra hours worked and the intensity of the work. The supplements are fixed in specific bands depending on the level of overtime. UK trainee doctors who do overtime receive an additional supplement, which would normally be between 20% and 50% of basic salary.

However, in Ireland there is a more open-ended and potentially spiralling overtime payment system for junior doctors. They get time and a half for all overtime worked after 39 hours from Monday to Friday, and double time on Sundays and public holidays, in addition to on-call payments where applicable.

A UK specialist registrar at the top of the basic scale getting an overtime allowance of 50% of salary would get a total of €87,484. In Ireland, a trainee at the same level getting average overtime pay would receive around €110,000.

The UK overtime system means that at the very upper end of the scale the maximum, total basic and overtime payment for a junior doctor can in a minority of cases can reach €116,000, whereas in Ireland, as mentioned before, basic and overtime pay for trainees in Ireland far more often exceeds €100,000 can in some cases can exceed €200,000.

source: Irishhealth.com

 

what are the requirments for Junior Doctor in Ireland ??

 

To pass PRES or be exempted from it. To see for exemption for Ireland please see the thread in Ireland forum about exemption from PRES.

 

What about the experience requirement, is there any?

 

yes you must have house job done and PRES exam passed or exempted.

 

thanks,. i knew that in ireland they pay more to young doctor than in UK. but what about tax rates and ... the working condition i think are pretty bad in ireland than in UK.