The government has announced a 2025–26 pay award of 4% plus a consolidated £750 for resident doctors in England.
This represents a pay uplift for resident doctors of between 5% for an ST8 and 6% for an F1. RPI inflation was 4.5% in April.Resident doctors are not worth less than our colleagues were in 2008, and this award offers no road map towards reversing years of real-terms wage cuts.
This smacks of complacency from the government – and with the NHS struggling to attract and retain talented staff, the government cannot afford to be complacent. We need to see a credible pathway to full pay restoration.
The award sees pay uplifts ranging from 5.06% for an ST8 to 6.05% for an F1.
|
Nodal point
|
Grade
|
Current pay (£)
|
Pay after award (£)
|
Difference (%)
|
|
1
|
F1
|
36,616
|
38,830.64
|
6.05
|
|
2
|
F2
|
42,008
|
44,438.32
|
5.79
|
|
3
|
CT1–CT2
|
49,909
|
52,655.36
|
5.50
|
|
4
|
CT3–4
|
61,825
|
65,048.00
|
5.21
|
|
3
|
ST1–2
|
49,909
|
52,655.36
|
5.50
|
|
4
|
ST3–5
|
61,825
|
65,048.00
|
5.21
|
|
5
|
ST6–8
|
70,425
|
73,992.00
|
5.06
|
Members can estimate the difference in their monthly take-home pay following the award. The following estimates are made using base pay only, meaning a 40-hour working week with no enhanced hours. They assume a standard tax code of 1257L, that the doctor contributes to the NHS Pension scheme and that the doctor is repaying a student loan through Plan 2. Numbers will differ for those members on student loan repayment Plan 1.
| Nodal point |
Grade |
Current monthly gross pay (base pay, £) |
Current pension contribution (£) |
Estimated monthly take-home (base pay, £) |
Monthly gross pay after award (base pay, £) |
New pension contribution (£) |
Estimated monthly take-home after award (base pay, £) |
Estimated monthly increase after tax (£) |
| 1 |
FY1 |
3051 |
299 |
2190 |
3236 |
317 |
2293 |
103 |
| 2 |
FY2 |
3501 |
343 |
2438 |
3703 |
363 |
2550 |
112 |
| 3 |
CT1–CT2 |
4159 |
408 |
2801 |
4388 |
470 |
2908 |
107 |
| 3 |
ST1–ST2 |
4159 |
408 |
2801 |
4388 |
470 |
2908 |
107 |
| 4 |
ST3–5 |
5152 |
551 |
3287 |
5421 |
678 |
3343 |
56 |
| 5 |
ST6–8 |
5869 |
734 |
3529 |
6166 |
771 |
3652 |
123 |
*All take-home estimates generated using The Salary Calculator.