How much do junior doctors really get paid in England?

Junior doctors successful England are starting their fifth circular of onslaught action with nary motion of a breakthrough successful their bitter wage quality with the government.

The doctors' union, the BMA, made headlines earlier this year erstwhile it said wage had fallen truthful acold down ostentation that its members would beryllium amended disconnected serving java than treating patients. The authorities described that arsenic misleading and said the mean inferior doc earns betwixt £20 and £30 an hour.

In reality, that word - inferior doc - covers idiosyncratic caller retired of aesculapian schoolhouse close up to those with a decennary oregon much of experience. And wage is complicated, with salaries varying massively arsenic medics determination up grades erstwhile they go much skilled and commencement to specialise.

BBC News asked 2 inferior doctors, astatine antithetic stages of their careers, to amusement america their wage slips and explicate precisely however overmuch they earn.

Dr Robert Gittings graduated from aesculapian schoolhouse successful Liverpool aft studying for a master's successful infectious illness biology.

Last summer, helium started his first, oregon FY1, twelvemonth arsenic a inferior doc successful London and is presently moving connected the infectious diseases ward arsenic portion of his rotation - wherever doctors get acquisition successful antithetic types of medicine.

"In my hospital, we person a batch of tuberculosis patients, patients with uncontrolled HIV, and we besides get pneumonias and, sometimes, we get a tropical corruption coming in," helium says.

Robert is paid a basal wage earlier taxation of astir £2,450 a period for a modular 40-hour week - oregon conscionable implicit £14 an hour. Then determination are further roster hours - which are compulsory - taking his mean moving week to 48 hours.

Under what the authorities calls a "final offer", his wage volition spell up successful October successful 2 ways: a consecutive 6% wage emergence and £1,250 permanently added to yearly salaries - some backdated to April.

But that falls good abbreviated of the 35% summation for which the BMA has been asking to marque up for years of below-inflation rises.

For Robert, the latest wage connection would beryllium worthy astir £250 a period earlier tax.

He besides receives other payments each month:

"Sometimes nighttime shifts tin beryllium truly busy," helium says. "There person been times erstwhile I've had to negociate a diligent by myself who is deteriorating, and I person to bash everything for them, conscionable with proposal implicit substance message."

Junior doctors similar Robert typically walk 5 oregon six years successful aesculapian schoolhouse earlier starting their jobs.

He says helium graduated with astir £50,000 of indebtedness including tuition fees and - successful June - paid backmost £75 successful pupil loans from his salary.

There are different deductions including £257 - oregon 9.8% of his wages - for a pension, with the NHS contributing 20.7% nether the latest vocation mean scheme, much than astir backstage assemblage pensions.

In June, Robert took location a full of £2,164 aft taxation and deductions. That works retired arsenic a full yearly wage of astir £37,000.

He says helium is present looking to instrumentality a twelvemonth retired to enactment overseas - astir apt successful Australia. "I'm not assured the wage present is going to amended arsenic overmuch arsenic I'd similar it to," helium says. "I would truly rather powerfully see staying [there]."

Dr Kiran Rahim qualified from aesculapian schoolhouse successful 2011 and present treats sick children arsenic a paediatric registrar - 1 of the astir experienced inferior doc grades.

"I was astatine enactment yesterday and it was really, truly busy," she says. "I was managing A&E - truthful taking successful each the paediatric referrals, each the sick kids who needed to beryllium seen.

"And past managing the acute enactment ward, making definite the children were getting their treatment, accessing and booking scans for them."

Kiran has taken 3 years retired to person children herself, and is present moving part-time portion she looks aft her young family, meaning her grooming - and her clip arsenic a inferior doc - has been "elongated".

For an mean three-day week, she is paid a basal wage earlier taxation of astir £3,315 a period - oregon conscionable nether £28 an hr - which is the aforesaid complaint arsenic a full-time doctor. Like Robert, she besides receives London weighting.

In July, she was paid different £292 for nighttime shifts and £132 for moving 1 play successful each six oregon seven.

She says the "vast majority" of inferior doctors astatine her level extremity up moving other unpaid hours earlier they tin spell location astatine the extremity of the day.

"I can't conscionable permission a sick diligent due to the fact that it's unsafe, and it's not just connected the radical who are already warring occurrence connected the adjacent shift," she adds.

Kiran finished paying disconnected her pupil indebtedness this year, though she says - similar different inferior doctors - determination are unavoidable costs which bash not amusement up connected her payslip.

She pays £433 a twelvemonth to the GMC to beryllium connected the doctors' register. There are charges to beryllium a subordinate of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, and she has had to wage thousands of pounds successful exam fees.

Plus determination is the outgo of idiosyncratic indemnity security - conscionable nether £700 a twelvemonth - to support her successful lawsuit she is sued for aesculapian negligence.

In July, Kiran took location £2,159 aft taxation and deductions for a 27-hour moving week. That would enactment retired arsenic a full yearly wage of astir £69,000 if she was full-time.

"Pay is important but truthful are each the different things that marque you privation to spell to work," she says. "This is not the occupation I signed up to bash 10 years agone and I person seen a diminution successful morale, successful our moving situation and successful our moving conditions."

The authorities says it has accepted the latest recommendations made by an autarkic wage reappraisal assemblage and its astir caller connection represents an 8.8% yearly wage emergence for the mean inferior doc successful England.

"Our grant balances the request to support ostentation successful cheque portion recognising the important enactment they do," says Health Secretary Steve Barclay.