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INDUSTRY • RECRUITMENT

Top 10 highest paid
professions

01 ICT Architects: $138,144

Excellent news if you are an engineer superannuation also made the top 20 Engineering
but not so excellent for the smaller list. That’s quite a change from just 02 Management: $133,927
construction firms. Rail is another area five years ago when mining dominated
where, in some cases, we have had to most of the list with 13 roles being in the
source skills from overseas. highest-paying jobs. 03 ICT Management: $132,307
So, which salaries are going to rise
04 in the next few years? Mining is still
Mining, Resources and Energy. After the highest-paying industry, despite 04 Mining, Resources & Energy
Management: $131,462
a slowdown in this area, we are seeing salaries being well below the average
a definite upturn in employment in from five years ago ($135,000 to Legal Generalists -
this sector. Queensland is probably the $116,000). With commodity prices 05 In-house: $128,988
biggest employer in resources right recovering, the demand for drilling
now, but Western Australia is slowly and exploration has picked up, with Accounting Strategy &
seeing improvement after a difficult the banking community claiming that 06 Planning: $128,373
five years. mining is showing the best conditions
of any industry currently. Accounting Financial Managers
06 07 With regards to the IT sector, the 07 & Controllers: $126,906
Accounting, Strategists, Planners significant changes have been around
and Financial Managers. Many new technology and of course both the Construction
companies have cut out upper and/ opportunity and the risk, especially 08 Management: $126,122
or middle management (depending around security and cyber breaches.
on size) in the past few years and Not a day goes by that we don’t hear 09 Construction Project
it seems the finance sector took about a company being hacked or Management: $124,603
a major hit. We have seen quite a private information stolen.
rebound in this area in the last 12 ICT architects are in demand because 10 Insurance & Superannuation
months. For example, we placed an they are the people who design and Management: $124,432
advert for a Chief Financial Officer plan the technology. They are not just
last November 2017 and received (no technical experts, they also have a
joke) over 150 applications. Many strong business understanding and
were highly qualified professionals good stakeholder management skills.
struggling to secure employment and Naturally, Cyber Security is a high
a large majority had suffered recent earner due to the skyrocketing demand
redundancies. More recently (July/ for their expertise as companies share
August 2018) we had several similar and store more data and hackers get
roles to recruit with a much smaller more sophisticated.
applicant pool, indicating that this My advice if you are an employer is to
area is improving. move quickly if you see a need in your
It is blatantly obvious that management organisation. People with skills are
roles now dominate Australia’s not sitting around waiting for you to Source: Seek
highest earners list, with managers interview or approach them, nor are
involved in engineering, technology, many of them applying to job boards.
resources, mining and energy making If you come across a candidate with the MORE: eliteexecutive.com.au or
up some of the most highly paid jobs. skills you need, move fast because if you contact Eva on 0409 591 188
Finance, construction, insurance and don’t, someone else will snap them up!

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