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OSCA 244431Updated 2026-01-29
Environmental Consultant
National shortage level: Low
ANZSCO 234312OSCA 244431
Snapshot
Median pay: AUD 91k
Weekly earnings: AUD 1740
Salary range: AUD 82k-AUD 100k
Job ads trend: Not listed
Time to hire: Varies
Visa pathways: Check eligibility
State distribution
27.5%
NSW
21%
WA
20.4%
VIC
Education mix
56%
bachelor degree
36.9%
Post graduate
2.7%
advanced diploma/ diploma
Role overview
Environmental Consultants analyse and advise on policies guiding the design, implementation and modification of government or commercial environmental operations and programs.
What you do
- • Carries out environmental impact assessments for a wide range of development projects.
- • Proposes solutions to address negative environmental impacts of a development project.
- • Studies the effects of factors, such as terrain, altitude, climatic and environmental change, sources of nutrition, predators and the impacts of humans, on animal and plant life.
Core skills
Credentials & pathway
- Recommended level: bachelor degree (56%)
Recent job ads
No ads listed yet.
Tasks
- • Carries out environmental impact assessments for a wide range of development projects.
- • Develops conservation and management policies for biological resources, such as fish populations and forests, as well as establishing standards and developing approaches for the control of pollution and the rehabilitation of areas disturbed by activities such as mining, timber felling and overgrazing.
- • Participates in management planning by providing environmental information and making inventories of plants, animals and items of cultural and heritage significance.
Earnings
Weekly median: AUD 1740
Annual median: AUD 91k
Range: AUD 82k-AUD 100k