A recent study by online jobs site Seek indicates:
- Salaries in Australia have grown steadily in the last 12 months, seeing a 3.5% uptick in advertised figures nationally,
- Western Australia was the biggest winner over the period, as a shortage of qualified candidates see mining companies compete for talent, while South Australian salaries grew the least.
- The five professions with the highest average advertised salaries were architects ($142,196), managers in the resources ($139,782) engineering ($136,564) and IT (135,480) sectors, followed by accountants ($130,302).
Despite the strong salary growth, there were 6.5% less job ads than last year. That’s on the back of a large slowdown in the housing and construction sectors.