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All staff unit costs were for the year 2000 and
the average salary excluding an ‘out of hours’
element for each grade of NHS staff was used
(Table 94). The average salary per minute was
calculated by assuming that doctors work 40 hours
per week for 41 weeks a year (98,400 minutes)
and nurses or theatre staff work 37.5 hours per
week for 42 weeks a year (94,500 minutes).
TABLE 94 Unit costs for NHS staff
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Appendix 20
NHS staff unit costs
Health Technology Assessment 2002; Vol. 6: No. 30
The hours worked per year were taken from a
published literature source. 244 A unit cost of zero
was assumed for porters because the cost of their
salary is included in the fixed cost attributed to
each department in the NHS trust. Students are
not paid by the NHS trust, and so a unit cost
of zero was assumed in accordance with the
study perspective.
Type of staff Grade of Average salary Employer’s Average salary Average salary
staff 250,251 * excluding employer’s contributions including including employer’s
contributions (%) employer’s contributions
(£) contributions (£) (£/min)
Anaesthetist Associate specialist 39,715 13.0 44,878 0.46
Anaesthetist Consultant 56,273 17.2 65,951 0.67
Anaesthetist Registrar 26,635 13.0 30,098 0.31
Anaesthetist Senior registrar 31,405 13.0 35,488 0.36
Anaesthetist Senior house officer 25,148 13.0 28,417 0.29
Anaesthetist Specialist registrar 29,575 13.0 33,420 0.34
Anaesthetist Staff grade 34,710 13.0 39,222 0.40
Anaesthetic/ Grade G 22,460 12.3 25,223 0.27
theatre nurse, sister
Auxiliary nurse,
ODA, ODP
Grade A 10,005 12.3 11,236 0.12
Auxiliary/theatre
nurse, HCA, ODA
HCA 10,005 12.3 11,236 0.12
Clinical nurse Clinical nurse 24,859 12.3 27,916 0.30
manager manager
Enrolled/staff/
theatre nurse
Grade D 15,668 12.3 17,595 0.19
Enrolled/theatre
nurse, ODA, ODP
TP 16,458 12.3 18,482 0.20
HCA Trainee HCA 8,000 12.3 8,984 0.10
Medical, midwife,
nurse student
Student 0 – 0 0.00
Nurse First assistant 23,531 12.3 26,425 0.28
ODA ODA 15,831 12.3 17,778 0.19
ODA, ODP,
staff nurse
SODA 19,911 12.3 22,359 0.24
Porter Porter 0 – 0 0.00
Porter Trainee porter 0 – 0 0.00
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