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Employed Persons by Occupation

As Australia's business and financial capital, Sydney has the largest number of knowledge workers, including managers and administrators, professionals, associate professionals and advanced clerical and service workers of all Australian cities.

About 22% of Australian employment across these occupational classes was located in Sydney as of May 2008. Regional New South Wales also accounts for significant employment in these occupations, plus large numbers of trades people and intermediate production and transport workers.


Employed Persons by Occupation, 2008 ('000)

Occupation (1) Sydney (2) Balance of NSW (3) Total NSW Australia Sydney as a % of NSW NSW as a % of Aust.
Managers and administrators 196.5 102.3 298.8 930.2 65.8 32.1
Professionals 530.9 188.8 719.8 2124.1 73.8 33.9
Associate professionals 273.3 146.2 419.5 1330.5 65.1 31.5
Tradespersons and related workers 247.9 166.7 414.6 1346.1 59.8 30.8
Advanced clerical and service workers 88.0 44.8 132.8 376.0 66.3 35.3
Intermediate clerical, sales and service workers 384.9 167.7 552.6 1,779.4 69.7 31.1
Intermediate production and transport workers 167.4 118.7 286 917.3 58.5 31.2
Elementary clerical, sales and service workers 197.1 116.7 313.8 965.0 62.8 32.5
Labourers and related workers 157.4 123.0 280.3 910.2 56.2 30.8
Total employed 2,243.30 1174.9 3418.2 10,678.7 65.6 32.0


Footnotes:
1: Based on the Australian Standard Classification of Occupations, second edition.
2: Sydney Major Statistical Region (MSR) based on the Statistical Region structure of the Australian Standard Geographical Classification (ASGC), 2006.
3: New South Wales excluding the Sydney MSR.

Source: ABS Cat. No. 6291.0.55.003, May 2008