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Browse 399 job categories with published salary figures. Each job has its own page with sources and pension information where available. No questionnaire is needed to read the figures.
399 occupational categories
Management
- Advertising and public relations managers
- Aged care services managers
- Agricultural and forestry production managers
- Aquaculture and fisheries production managers
- Business services and administration managers not elsewhere classified
- Child care services managers
- Construction managers
- Education managers
- Finance managers
- Financial and insurance services branch managers
- Health services managers
- Hotel managers
- Human resource managers
- Information and communications technology service managers
- Legislators
- Managing directors and chief executives
- Manufacturing managers
- Mining managers
- Policy and planning managers
- Professional services managers not elsewhere classified
- Research and development managers
- Restaurant managers
- Retail and wholesale trade managers
- Sales and marketing managers
- Senior government officials
- Senior officials of special-interest organizations
- Services managers not elsewhere classified
- Social welfare managers
- Sports, recreation and cultural centre managers
- Supply, distribution and related managers
Professional roles — science, engineering, health, IT & teaching
- Accountants
- Actors
- Advertising and marketing professionals
- Announcers on radio, television and other media
- Applications programmers
- Archivists and curators
- Audiologists and speech therapists
- Authors and related writers
- Biologists, botanists, zoologists and related professionals
- Building architects
- Cartographers and surveyors
- Chemical engineers
- Chemists
- Civil engineers
- Computer network professionals
- Creative and performing artists not elsewhere classified
- Dancers and choreographers
- Database and network professionals not elsewhere classified
- Database designers and administrators
- Dentists
- Dieticians and nutritionists
- Early childhood educatorsTeaching before primary school.
- Economists
- Education methods specialists
- Electrical engineers
- Electronics engineers
- Engineering professionals not elsewhere classified
- Environmental and occupational health and hygiene professionals
- Environmental engineers
- Environmental protection professionals
- Farming, forestry and fisheries advisers
- Film, stage and related directors and producers
- Financial analysts
- Financial and investment advisers
- Generalist medical practitioners
- Geologists and geophysicists
- Graphic and multimedia designers
- Health professionals not elsewhere classified
- Industrial and production engineers
- Information and communications technology sales professionals
- Information technology trainers
- Journalists
- Judges
- Landscape architects
- Lawyers
- Legal professionals not elsewhere classified
- Librarians and related information professionals
- Management and organization analysts
- Mathematicians, actuaries and statisticians
- Mechanical engineers
- Meteorologists
- Midwifery professionals
- Mining engineers, metallurgists and related professionals
- Musicians, singers and composers
- Nurses
- Optometrists and ophthalmic opticians
- Other arts teachers
- Other language teachers
- Other music teachers
- Paramedical practitioners
- Personnel and careers professionals
- Pharmacists
- Philosophers, historians and political scientists
- Physicists and astronomers
- Physiotherapists
- Policy administration professionals
- Primary school teachers
- Product and garment designers
- Psychologists
- Public relations professionals
- Religious professionals
- Secondary education teachers
- Social educators (pedagogues)Pedagogical work in childcare, schools, leisure or social settings.
- Social work and counselling professionals
- Sociologists, anthropologists and related professionals
- Software and applications developers and analysts not elsewhere classified
- Software developers
- Special needs educatorsSpecial pedagogical support, a separate salary group.
- Special needs teachers
- Specialist medical practitioners
- Systems administrators
- Systems analysts
- Teaching professionals not elsewhere classified
- Technical and medical sales professionals (excluding ICT)
- Telecommunications engineers
- Town and traffic planners
- Training and staff development professionals
- Translators, interpreters and other linguists
- University and higher education teachers
- Veterinarians
- Visual artists
- Vocational education teachers
- Web and multimedia developers
Technicians & associate professionals
- Accounting associate professionals
- Administrative and executive secretaries
- Agricultural technicians
- Air traffic controllers
- Air traffic safety electronics technicians
- Aircraft pilots and related associate professionals
- Ambulance workers
- Athletes and sports players
- Broadcasting and audio-visual technicians
- Business services agents not elsewhere classified
- Buyers
- Chefs
- Chemical and physical science technicians
- Chemical engineering technicians
- Chemical processing plant controllers
- Civil engineering technicians
- Clearing and forwarding agents
- Commercial sales representatives
- Computer network and systems technicians
- Conference and event planners
- Credit and loans officers
- Customs and border inspectors
- Dental assistants and therapists
- Draughtspersons
- Electrical engineering technicians
- Electronics engineering technicians
- Employment agents and contractors
- Environmental and occupational health inspectors and associates
- Fitness and recreation instructors and program leaders
- Forestry technicians
- Gallery, museum and library technicians
- Government licensing officials
- Government social benefits officials
- Government tax and excise officials
- Health associate professionals not elsewhere classified
- Incinerator and water treatment plant operators
- Information and communications technology operations technicians
- Information and communications technology user support technicians
- Insurance representatives
- Interior designers and decorators
- Legal and related associate professionals
- Legal secretaries
- Life science technicians (excluding medical)
- Mechanical engineering technicians
- Medical and dental prosthetic technicians
- Medical and pathology laboratory technicians
- Medical assistants
- Medical imaging and therapeutic equipment technicians
- Medical records and health information technicians
- Medical secretaries
- Metal production process controllers
- Midwifery associate professionals
- Mining and metallurgical technicians
- Nursing associate professionals
- Other artistic and cultural associate professionals
- Petroleum and natural gas refining plant operators
- Pharmaceutical technicians and assistants
- Photographers
- Physical and engineering science technicians not elsewhere classified
- Physiotherapy technicians and assistants
- Police inspectors and detectives
- Power production plant operators
- Process control technicians not elsewhere classified
- Real estate agents and property managers
- Regulatory government associate professionals not elsewhere classified
- Religious associate professionals
- Securities and finance dealers and brokers
- Ships deck officers and pilots
- Ships engineers
- Social work associate professionals
- Sports coaches, instructors and officials
- Statistical, mathematical and related associate professionals
- Telecommunications engineering technicians
- Trade brokers
- Traditional and complementary medicine associate professionals
- Valuers and loss assessors
- Veterinary technicians and assistants
- Web technicians
Office & administrative support
- Accounting and bookkeeping clerks
- Bank tellers and related clerks
- Bookmakers, croupiers and related gaming workers
- Clerical support workers not elsewhere classified
- Client information workers not elsewhere classifiedOther client information work.
- Coding, proof-reading and related clerks
- Contact centre information clerksCustomer information by phone or through contact centres.
- Data entry clerks
- Debt-collectors and related workers
- Enquiry clerksInformation and enquiry desks.
- Filing and copying clerks
- General office clerks
- Hotel receptionists
- Library clerks
- Mail carriers and sorting clerks
- Payroll clerks
- Personnel clerks
- Production clerksProduction records and administration.
- Receptionists (general)
- Secretaries (general)
- Statistical, finance and insurance clerks
- Stock clerksStock records, inventory and warehouse administration.
- Survey and market research interviewers
- Telephone switchboard operators
- Transport clerks
- Travel consultants and clerks
- Typists and word processing operators
Services, sales & personal care
- Bartenders
- Beauticians and related workers
- Building caretakers
- Cashiers and ticket clerks
- Child care workers
- Cleaning and housekeeping supervisors in offices, hotels and other establishments
- Contact centre salespersons
- Cooks
- Domestic housekeepers
- Driving instructors
- Fashion and other models
- Fire-fighters
- Food service counter attendants
- Hairdressers
- Health care assistantsCare in hospitals and institutions; excludes care homes.
- Home-based personal care workersHome care and care homes; includes both helpers and qualified assistants.
- Personal care workers in health services not elsewhere classifiedOther healthcare support; check the duties against home or hospital care.
- Personal services workers not elsewhere classified
- Pet groomers and animal care workers
- Police officers
- Prison guards
- Protective services workers not elsewhere classified
- Sales demonstrators
- Sales workers not elsewhere classified
- Security guards
- Service station attendants
- Shop sales assistants
- Stall and market salespersons
- Teachers aides
- Transport conductors
- Travel attendants and travel stewards
- Travel guides
- Undertakers and embalmers
- Waiters
Agriculture, forestry & fishing
Skilled trades & construction
- Agricultural and industrial machinery mechanics and repairers
- Air conditioning and refrigeration mechanics
- Aircraft engine mechanics and repairers
- Bakers, pastry-cooks and confectionery makers
- Bicycle and related repairers
- Blacksmiths, hammersmiths and forging press workers
- Bricklayers and related workers
- Building electricians
- Building frame and related trades workers not elsewhere classified
- Building structure cleaners
- Butchers, fishmongers and related food preparers
- Cabinet-makers and related workers
- Carpenters and joiners
- Concrete placers, concrete finishers and related workers
- Craft and related workers not elsewhere classified
- Dairy-products makers
- Electrical line installers and repairers
- Electrical mechanics and fitters
- Electronics mechanics and servicers
- Floor layers and tile setters
- Fruit, vegetable and related preservers
- Fumigators and other pest and weed controllers
- Garment and related pattern-makers and cutters
- Glass makers, cutters, grinders and finishers
- Glaziers
- Handicraft workers in textile, leather and related materials
- Handicraft workers in wood, basketry and related materials
- Handicraft workers not elsewhere classified
- Information and communications technology installers and servicers
- Insulation workers
- Jewellery and precious-metal workers
- Metal moulders and coremakers
- Metal polishers, wheel grinders and tool sharpeners
- Metal working machine tool setters and operators
- Motor vehicle mechanics and repairers
- Musical instrument makers and tuners
- Painters and related workers
- Plasterers
- Plumbers and pipe fitters
- Potters and related workers
- Pre-press technicians
- Precision-instrument makers and repairers
- Print finishing and binding workers
- Printers
- Product graders and testers (excluding foods and beverages)
- Riggers and cable splicers
- Roofers
- Sewing, embroidery and related workers
- Sheet-metal workers
- Shoemakers and related workers
- Sign writers, decorative painters, engravers and etchers
- Spray painters and varnishers
- Stonemasons, stone cutters, splitters and carvers
- Structural-metal preparers and erectors
- Tailors, dressmakers, furriers and hatters
- Tobacco preparers and tobacco products makers
- Toolmakers and related workers
- Underwater divers
- Upholsterers and related workers
- Welders and flamecutters
- Wood treaters
- Woodworking-machine tool setters and operators
Machine operators, drivers & assembly
- Assemblers not elsewhere classified
- Bleaching, dyeing and fabric cleaning machine operators
- Bus and tram drivers
- Car, taxi and van drivers
- Cement, stone and other mineral products machine operators
- Chemical products plant and machine operators
- Crane, hoist and related plant operators
- Earthmoving and related plant operators
- Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers
- Fibre preparing, spinning and winding machine operators
- Food and related products machine operators
- Glass and ceramics plant operators
- Heavy truck and lorry drivers
- Laundry machine operators
- Lifting truck operators
- Locomotive engine drivers
- Mechanical machinery assemblers
- Metal finishing, plating and coating machine operators
- Metal processing plant operators
- Mineral and stone processing plant operators
- Mobile farm and forestry plant operators
- Packing, bottling and labelling machine operators
- Paper products machine operators
- Photographic products machine operators
- Plastic products machine operators
- Pulp and papermaking plant operators
- Railway brake, signal and switch operators
- Rubber products machine operators
- Sewing machine operators
- Ships deck crews and related workers
- Stationary plant and machine operators not elsewhere classified
- Steam engine and boiler operators
- Textile, fur and leather products machine operators not elsewhere classified
- Weaving and knitting machine operators
- Well drillers and borers and related workers
- Wood processing plant operators
Cleaning, helpers & other elementary occupations
- Building construction labourers
- Civil engineering labourers
- Cleaners and helpers in offices, hotels and other establishments
- Domestic cleaners and helpers
- Elementary workers not elsewhere classified
- Fast food preparers
- Fishery and aquaculture labourers
- Forestry labourers
- Freight handlersLoading and unloading freight, including port and moving work.
- Garbage and recycling collectors
- Garden and horticultural labourers
- Hand and pedal vehicle drivers
- Hand launderers and pressers
- Hand packersPacking products by hand.
- Kitchen helpers
- Livestock farm labourers
- Manufacturing labourers not elsewhere classifiedManual factory and production support.
- Messengers, package deliverers and luggage porters
- Meter readers and vending-machine collectors
- Mining and quarrying labourers
- Mixed crop and livestock farm labourers
- Odd job persons
- Other cleaning workers
- Refuse sorters
- Street and related service workers
- Sweepers and related labourers
- Vehicle cleaners
- Warehouse workers and shelf fillersWarehouse and stock replenishment work; the group also includes shelf filling.
- Window cleaners