If you’re an employer aiming to attract the best talent or a recruiter with a keen eye on the salary market, it pays to know the answers. That’s why we’ve crunched the numbers to provide the deepest insight into the $200,000 roles advertised on SEEK.
We’ve sliced our salary data in three ways: by industry classification, by role and by location.
Industries paying $200K salaries
Our industry chart lists the top 10 industries on SEEK that pay more than $200,000 and shows the percentage of these high-paying jobs within them. Information and Communications Technology (ICT) leads the way with 17.7% of its roles in this salary bracket. This is followed by Healthcare and Medical (13.3%) and Construction (12.8%).
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$200K roles revealed
We’ve also identified the top 10 roles paying more than $200,000. Our data shows that this accounts for 6.4% of Management roles in ICT. This compares to 2% of Management roles in the Sales industry.
| RANK
|
INDUSTRY
|
ROLE TYPE
|
%
|
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Information & Communication Technology | Management | 6.40% |
| 2 | Healthcare & Medical | Medical Specialists | 6.20% |
| 3 | Construction | Management | 5.20% |
| 4 | Construction | Project Management | 4.30% |
| 5 | Healthcare & Medical | General Practitioners | 4.00% |
| 6 | Accounting | Financial Managers & Controllers | 4.00% |
| 7 | Engineering | Civil/Structural Engineering | 3.60% |
| 8 | Engineering | Management | 2.50% |
| 9 | Information & Communication Technology | Programme & Project Management | 2.50% |
| 10 | Sales | Management | 2.00% |
Top-paying locations
We’ve also plotted the $200,000 roles across a map of New Zealand to show you where the highest proportion of these roles are located. Auckland and Wellington are out in front with 56.9% and 20.8% respectively.
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Source: SEEK Salary Review, annual full-time salary averages, 2018/19, SEEK
