National trends
Public hospitals
In 2017–18:
- there were 373,000 FTE staff in public hospitals
- 157,000 FTE Nurses accounted for 42% of staff
- 46,000 FTE Salaried medical officers accounted for 12% of staff.
Between 2016–17 and 2017–18:
- there was a 1.1% increase in the number of FTE staff overall
- salaried medical officers increased by 2.3%
- the number of nurses increased by 2.1%.
Average salaries in public hospitals
Between 2013–14 and 2017–18:
- the average salary for staff employed in providing public hospital services increased by 2.9% on average each year
- public hospital average salaries for Nurses and Salaried medical officers increased by 2.7% and 3.0% on average each year, respectively.
Private hospitals
In 2016–17 (most recent available data):
- there were 69,300 FTE staff in private hospitals
- 1,400 FTE Salaried medical professionals were reported by private hospitals, accounting for 2% of FTE staff in both private free-standing day hospital facilities and private hospitals not specialising in same-day care
- 38,300 FTE Nurses were reported by private hospitals, accounting for 52% of FTE staff in private free-standing day hospital facilities and 56% of FTE staff in other private hospitals.