Australian locum rates survey 2026: add your rate.
What did your latest locum work actually pay? Share one rate and help build a public picture that starts with locums themselves. No account needed. No names in the report.
Add my rateHelp turn estimates into a shared reference
Our existing rates guides contain editorial estimates. They help start a conversation, but they cannot tell us what the people reading them are being offered today. This survey creates a separate source of evidence: rates volunteered by Australian locums about their own work during 2026. Your contribution can help someone preparing for their next workplace offer ask more informed questions.
Please answer for your most recent Australian locum work in 2026, using the agreed base rate and the unit you were paid in. Choose per shift when your payment covered a single booked shift, and per day when it covered a day. Enter a percentage only when your agreement was a share of billings. Keep separately paid super and travel outside the rate. If your quoted amount includes GST, use the amount before GST. These instructions make answers easier to compare; they do not describe what any workplace must pay.
We also ask about broad location, booking arrangements, experience and usual weekly hours. Choose unsure when you do not know the location band or super arrangement. State and travel answers are optional. We do not ask for your workplace, exact address, registration number, invoice, payslip or a free-text explanation. There is nothing to upload and no moderation queue to wait for.
How your answer becomes a public result
The report groups answers by profession and billing unit. It shows response counts, refreshed about every ten minutes, but it publishes a median and the middle spread of rates only once a group has at least ten responses. Hourly rates stay separate from daily rates, shift rates and percentages. A profession can have many answers overall while still having too few in a particular unit to publish a figure.
These are self-reported, unverified answers. Volunteers do not represent every locum, and a larger count does not make a figure a guaranteed rate or a recommended fee. Automated limits reduce repeated submissions; an opted-in email can contribute only once per survey year. Without an email, we cannot guarantee that each response represents a different person. Please submit once so the shared picture remains useful.
Read the developing survey report to see the counts and method, or browse the editorial rates guides for broader context. The two sources are labelled separately so you can judge what each tells you.
Add your answer
Your answer is private, with grouped results published. Signed-in answers retain your user ID. Report email opt-ins retain contact details as explained below.
Before you answer
Will my answer identify me?
Your identity is never published. No name, workplace or account is required. If you are signed in, we retain your user ID internally. If you opt in to receive the report, we store an encrypted email and a hash with your answer, plus your email in the separate consent register. For the least identifiable response, answer while signed out and leave the email blank.
Who sees my answer?
Sessional stores your answer to calculate the report. People with authorised access to the underlying data can access individual responses. Public readers see response counts and grouped rate figures only. No individual answers, contact details or identities are published. Rate figures need at least 10 responses within the same profession and billing unit.
When is the report published?
The report page is available now and updates as answers arrive, with a cache of up to ten minutes. Each profession and billing unit needs at least 10 responses before rate figures appear. There is no promised final publication date. An optional report email opt-in lets us notify you when a report release is published; it is not an immediate email confirmation.
We retain a daily salted fingerprint made from the connection IP and browser user agent to limit repeated submissions. The response does not store the raw IP or raw user agent. A country code may be retained when supplied by our trusted connection headers. The separate email consent record retains the email, consent time, source, scope, an IP hash and a shortened user agent for opt-in administration.