For locum pharmacists | AHPRA
Every hour, every loading, every agency, reconciled. Vaccination scope, remote-package travel, and GST-threshold income all in one place.
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Profession working set
Sessional logs base rate, Saturday +25%, Sunday +50%, and public-holiday +150% under the Pharmacy Industry Award 2020 automatically. Where an agency rolls penalties into a flat hourly, you still see the implied base against the award so you know whether the flat rate is actually fair.
UTI prescribing (QLD statewide), resupply, contraceptive-pill continuation, and aged-care on-site pharmacist (OSP) shifts logged as distinct shift types. Aged-care OSP revenue can change your PSI profile; Sessional surfaces the flag.
Immuniser authorisation varies wildly: QLD broadest (childhood schedule), NT narrowest, TAS expanded-scope bridging from 1 Jan 2025. Sessional uses your current state to show only the schedule you can actually deliver and stores your most recent vaccination certificate with an expiry alert.
CQ-style remote packages ($90 to $120/hr with accom, flights, and vehicle on top) should be compared on total take-home, not headline rate. Sessional separates rate, travel, allowances, and accommodation so you can compare like-for-like against a metro SEEK posting.
Agency SG is inconsistent and sometimes absent. Sessional flags unpaid super where expected and tracks your voluntary concessional contributions so you do not accidentally tip over the $32,500 cap and attract excess-contribution tax.
01 | State by state
AUAHPRA is national. Secondary credentials are not.Vaccination authorisation is state-regulated, not federal. QLD is the broadest scope (including the childhood schedule under a pharmacist prescribing pilot); NT is the narrowest. TAS is rolling out expanded-scope bridging from 1 Jan 2025. QLD also runs a statewide UTI and resupply pilot under 8CPA. Check your state-credentials page before you book the shift: AHPRA registration is national, the scope you can deliver under it is not.
02 | Current market
04Verified market figures40,913
$72.77/hr (PSA 2025)
$90 to $120/hr; PIC regional to $130/hr
Saturday +25%, Sunday +50%, PH +150% (Pharmacy Award 2020)
03 | Inventory
Profession-aware fields from day one, plus the bodies and channels that shape this cohort.
04 | FAQs
Sessional Australia offers three tiers (AUD). Free ($0) covers shift tracking, a public profile, and basic invoicing. Plus early access is $19.99/month until 1 January 2027, then $29.99/month for new subscriptions. Continuously subscribed early-access members keep their rate. Pro ($39.99/month) adds API access, Xero sync, and advanced reporting. No commission on any plan.
Every shift with date, rate type (hourly, daily, per-shift, or percentage of billings), and workplace. Invoices, expenses with ATO cents-per-km, professional documents including your AHPRA registration, and tax planning for sole trader, Pty Ltd, or Trust structures. All income streams (agency, direct, public, NDIS) in one place.
No. Sessional Australia is the admin, compliance, and earnings platform. We do not compete as a marketplace and we do not take a commission on your work. Keep using Wavelength, Medrecruit, Ochre, HealthCare Australia, direct clinic relationships, and any other source that works for you. Sessional unifies the admin side across all of them.
Yes. Sessional Australia understands AHPRA registration and your AHPRA number. It appears on every invoice you generate and on your public profile, so workplaces can verify your AHPRA, Pharmacy Board of Australia registration at a glance.
Yes. Each shift is logged with a rate type: hourly, daily, per-shift, or percentage of billings. Percentage-of-billings shifts skip the invoice step because the workplace bills Medicare or the patient and pays you a net share. Sessional handles the split automatically on the earnings dashboard and tax planner.
05 | Plans in AUD
$0forever
Shift diary, public profile, and basic invoicing.
$19.99/month early access
Early access until 1 January 2027, then $29.99/month for new subscriptions. Continuously subscribed early-access members keep their rate. Unlimited shifts, invoicing, expenses, documents, and ATO tax planning.
$39.99/month
Everything in Plus plus API access, Xero sync, and advanced reporting.
06 | City guides
City-level guides for locum pharmacists across Australia.
07 | Learn more
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