The base salary for the state’s MPs will rise 2 per cent to $120,835, after a freeze for the past two years.

Future pay rises will be determined by the Tasmanian Industrial Council, but any decision could be disallowed by a majority in both houses of Parliament.

Low-paid workers will also get a pay increase from today, with the national minimum wage to go up 2.5 per cent to $656.90 a week.

But also on the rise are water and electricity prices, with Aurora’s charges to increase 1.95 per cent, and TasWater’s prices up 2.5 per cent.

Even the dead will feel the pinch of higher prices, with burial plot fees at Carr Villa and Lilydale cemeteries to rise 15.4 per cent from today.

The number of health organisations will shrink from three to one today, with the Tasmanian Health Service to start operations.

The THS has already endured a rocky start, with interim chief executive Dr Anne Brand copping criticism from the Australian Medical Association for also owning an alternative health clinic offering reiki and crystal healing.

Also changing today is Primary Health Tasmania, which will replace Medical Local Tasmania as part of the federal government’s shift away from providing direct medical services.

CHANGES TO TAKE EFFECT FROM TODAY

●Members of parliament to get a 2 per cent pay rise to a base level of $120,835.

●National minimum wage up 2.5 per cent to $656.90 a week.

●Electricity prices up 1.95 per cent.

●The state’s three health organisations to become the Tasmanian Health Service.

●Water charges up 2.5 per cent.

●Burial plot fees at Carr Villa and Lilydale cemeteries to increase by 15.4 per cent.

●Medicare Local to become Primary Health Tasmania.