{"id":741606,"date":"2026-06-17T04:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T04:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/741606\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T04:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T04:22:13","slug":"ato-reveals-top-10-highest-paying-jobs-in-australia-with-salaries-up-to-520000-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/741606\/","title":{"rendered":"ATO reveals top 10 highest paying jobs in Australia with salaries up to $520,000 a year"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The The ATO has revealed the highest paying jobs in Australia, with medical professionals dominating the list once again. \u00b7 Source: Getty <\/p>\n

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO)<\/a> has revealed the highest paying jobs across the country, with the top role bringing in nearly $520,000 a year. The list is based on the tax return data<\/a> of millions of Aussies and gives a comprehensive insight into how much people are earning.<\/p>\n

Surgeons were once again named the top earners in Australia<\/a>, making an average of $519,998 a year. This was up nearly $47,500 from the previous year and accounts for 4,280 workers in the country.<\/p>\n

For context, this means surgeons are earning more than six times the average taxable income of $78,127 over the same period.<\/p>\n

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Medical professionals once again dominated the list<\/a>, making up half of the top 10 roles. Anaesthetists took second place with average earnings of $475,455 and internal medicine specialists were in third at $362,120.<\/p>\n

Financial dealers were the highest paid non-medical role, earning an average of $347,375 based on the salaries of 5,148 individuals.<\/p>\n

The more nebulous roles of CEOs and managing directors were the most common profession to crack the top 10, with 237,168 people in the role earning an average of $200,418 a year.<\/p>\n

What are the highest paid jobs in Australia? <\/p>\n

The ATO data<\/a>, which was released today, is based on the tax returns from the 2023-24 financial year.<\/p>\n

The top 10 occupations have remained the same over the years, but incomes have gone up for most professions and some jobs have switched places in the list.<\/p>\n

Here is the full list of roles and how much their incomes have changed since the previous year.<\/p>\n

Surgeon $519,998 (up $47,523)<\/p>\n

Anaesthetists $475,455 (up $28,262)<\/p>\n

Internal medicine specialist $362,120 (up $19,663)<\/p>\n

Financial dealer $347,375 (down $7,858)<\/p>\n

Psychiatrist $305,282 (up $19,136)<\/p>\n

Other medical practitioners $277,728 (up $17,926)<\/p>\n

Judicial or other legal professional $217,127 (up $10,719)<\/p>\n

Mining engineer $216,080 (up $9,657)<\/p>\n

Financial investment advisor or manager $202,840 (up $10,854)<\/p>\n

Chief executive officer or managing director $200,418 (up $5,431)<\/p>\n

How much does the average Aussie earn? <\/p>\n

The ATO data also revealed the average Aussie income was $78,127 a year, which was up from the previous year’s average of $74,240.<\/p>\n

The median income was lower at $58,739 a year, but also up from the previous year’s median of $55,868.<\/p>\n

Superannuation balances<\/a> have also increased, with the average balance at $182,781, up from $172,834 the year prior. The median balance was $63,339, up from $60,037.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ATO has revealed the highest paying jobs in Australia, with medical professionals dominating the list once again.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":741607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[357613,64,63,9460,357612,44,50212],"class_list":["post-741606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-anaesthetists","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-taxation-office","tag-internal-medicine-specialists","tag-news","tag-taxable-income"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}