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This adds up to £2,152 per night, which is more than some nurses in lower pay bands receive.
Nurses’ pay starts at £22,383, or £1,865.25 per month. But the average salary for a nurse following their 5pc pay rise is somewhere between £33,000 and £35,000 – up to £2,916 a month, according to Nurses.co.uk.
Top 2pc
Health Secretary Steve Barclay says striking hospital consultants, who have two further walkouts planned next month, rank in the top 2pc of UK earners.
Meanwhile, 7.6 million people are on NHS waiting lists – a rise of more than 400,000 since Rishi Sunak pledged to cut waits.
Patients can expect to face significant disruption over the next two days due to the latest walkouts, according to NHS bosses.
While emergency care will be provided by consultants, most routine care has been put on pause.
Last year, half of consultants said they were satisfied with their pay – with just 30pc saying they were dissatisfied, according to an independent report by the Office of Manpower Economics.
As of this year, a consultant can earn a basic pay of anywhere between £93,666 and £126,281 – up from last year’s pay bands of £88,364 to £119,133.
With average full-time NHS earnings – which include on-call responsibilities, medical awards and geographical allowances – consultants earn more like £143,100 annually.
UK consultant pay beats New Zealand’s
Consultants in England also earn more than their counterparts working in New Zealand, Denmark, Spain, France, Italy and Portugal.
England is ranked sixth out of 28 countries on consultant pay, according to independent health think tank Nuffield Trust.
The Netherlands, Ireland and Germany all sit above England.
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