Judicial officer salaries

Salary certificates

Section 10 of the Judicial Entitlements Act requires the Attorney-General to issue a salary certificate, specifying the salaries of judicial officers, including reserve judicial officers, as soon as practicable after any salary adjustment.

The most recent salary certificate, effective from 17 November 2023, provides the current salary amounts of judicial officers, reserve judicial officers and certain registrars of the Court of Appeal. The most recent certificate salary certificate supersedes any issued before it. However, superseded salary certificates are provided in this register for reference. The most recent certificate and superseded salary certificates can be accessed using the relevant document links published at the bottom of this page.

The current salaries are also set out in the following tables:

Salaries of judicial officers
Item	Judicial Office	Current salary
0	Supreme Court Judge	$500,140
1	Chief Justice	$564,458
2	President of the Court of Appeal	$533,349
3	Judge of Appeal	$516,745
4	Associate Judge of the Supreme Court who is the Senior Master	$445,125
5	Registrar of the Court of Appeal other than when that office is or was held by a Judicial Registrar of the Supreme Court	$445,125
6	Associate Judge of the Supreme Court other than an Associate Judge referred to in item 4, 5 or 7 of this table	$423,369
7	Associate Judge of the Supreme Court who is or was a Specialist Supreme Court Master	$402,613
8	Chief Judge	$500,140
8A	Deputy Chief Judge	$460,029
9	Judge of the County Court other than the Chief Judge or the Deputy Chief Judge	$433,321
10	Associate Judge or Master of the County Court	$423,369
11	Chief Magistrate who is or has been a dual commission holder as a Judge of the Supreme Court	$500,140
11A	Chief Magistrate who has been a dual commission holder as a judge of the County Court under the County Court Act 1958	$433,321
12	Deputy Chief Magistrate	$368,353
13	Deputy State Coroner	$368,353
14	Magistrate other than the Chief Magistrate or a Deputy Chief Magistrate	$346,547

Sessional rates of reserve judicial officers per sitting day
Item	Judicial Office	Sessional rates of reserve judicial officers per sitting day
a	Reserve Judge of the Supreme Court who: was the Chief Justice, the President of the Court of Appeal or a Judge of Appeal immediately before the Judge's commission ceased under section 77(4)(a), (b), (c), (d) or (e) of the Constitution Act 1975, or is engaged under section 81B of that Act to undertake the duties of a Judge of Appeal.	$2,199
b	Reserve Judge of the Supreme Court (other than a Reserve Judge of the Supreme Court described in item (a) above)	$2,128
c	Reserve Associate Judge of the Supreme Court who: was the Senior Master immediately before the person retired or resigned, or is engaged under section 105D of the Supreme Court Act 1986 to undertake the duties of the Senior Master.	$1,894
d	Reserve Associate Judge of the Supreme Court (other than a Reserve Associate Judge of the Supreme Court described in item (c) above)	$1,802
e	Reserve Judge of the County Court	$1,844
f	Reserve Associate Judge of the County Court	$1,802
g	Reserve Magistrate	$1,475
h	Reserve Coroner	$1,475

Document links

The following links are to documents that have been referred to above on this page.

A reference in the title of a link to the:

JE Act is to the Judicial Entitlements Act 2015
JRT Act is to the Judicial Remuneration Tribunal Act 1995.

Author

Department of Justice and Community Safety

Judicial pensions reduction methodology

The Attorney-General approved a methodology that applies in divorce proceedings involving certain judicial officers who are, or will be, in receipt of a judicial pension. The methodology is used to calculate the amount by which a judicial officers' ongoing pension payments are to be reduced, where an amount has previously been paid to a non-member spouse or de facto partner by agreement or court order following a divorce or split in the relationship. The methodology has been developed in accordance with the separate interest method under the Family Law Act 1975 (Cth) and Family Law (Superannuation) Regulations 2001 (Cth).

A copy of the methodology can be accessed using the document link below.