Working as an accountant in Australia
What official sources say about working as an accountant in Australia: what the occupation group earns, how foreign qualifications are recognised and which shortage list names it.
In Australia, the occupation group "Professionals", which includes accountants, earns ≈ 4,662 EUR/month (gross, 2021). Accountant is a regulated profession in Australia. Foreign qualifications go through: Apply to the TPB for tax-agent registration and meet its education, experience, fit-and-proper and professional-association requirements. In Australia, accountants are listed on the 2025 Occupation Shortage List (ANZSCO 2022).
- Earnings of the occupation group "Professionals"
- ≈ 4,662 EUR/month (gross, 2021)
- Regulation
- Regulated
- Recognition route
- Apply to the TPB for tax-agent registration and meet its education, experience, fit-and-proper and professional-association requirements.
- Shortage list
- Listed
Pay
Earnings of the occupation group "Professionals" in Australia: ≈ 4,662 EUR/month (gross, 2021), from ILO. An occupation group is wider than one job title: it is the pay of everyone the group holds, not of accountants alone.
Regulation and recognition
Accountant is a regulated profession in Australia.
- Recognition route
- Apply to the TPB for tax-agent registration and meet its education, experience, fit-and-proper and professional-association requirements.
- Recognition authority
- Tax Practitioners Board (TPB) for registration to provide tax-agent services for a fee.
Shortage list
An exact current shortage-list record is published for accountant in Australia: 2025 Occupation Shortage List (ANZSCO 2022).
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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 16). Accountant in Australia: salary, recognition and shortage status [ImmigrationDB compilation; version b4bee1fb666b28efed21755cd80b8fbf]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/accountant/australia/ Retrieved 2026-10-16. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/BibTeX citation
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