Core Skills Occupation List for the subclass 482 visa: LIN 24/089

The Migration (Specification of Occupations–Subclass 482 Visa) Instrument 2024 (LIN 24/089) was made on 6 December 2024 by the Assistant Minister for Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs under subregulation 2.72(9) of the Migration Regulations 1994 (section 3). It commenced on 7 December 2024 and repealed LIN 19/048. This page describes Compilation No. 3, in force from 7 November 2025, which includes amendments made by three instruments: the Migration Amendment (Caveats) Specification 2024, LIN 24/083 and the Migration Amendment (Skilled Visa Reform Technical Measures) Instrument 2025 (Endnote 3).

The explanatory statement says the instrument specifies the Core Skills Occupation List (CSOL) for the Core Skills stream of the subclass 482 (Skills in Demand) visa, which replaced the Temporary Skill Shortage visa on 7 December 2024, and that The single list replaces the previous three occupations lists that applied under the TSS visa. It records that the CSOL comprises 456 occupations, against 509 under the previous TSS visa.

The Core Skills Occupation List

Section 6(3) sets out the list. It has 456 items and three columns: occupation title, 6-digit ANZSCO code, and an applicable circumstance number referring to section 7(2). The first item is Chief Executive or Managing Director (111111) and the last is Retail Buyer (639211). Under section 6(1)(c) an occupation applies to a Core Skills stream nominee if the tasks to be performed correspond to the tasks in the ANZSCO code for the occupation. Section 4 specifies ANZSCO as the classification published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics as in force on 23 November 2022. The full list is in the instrument.

Column 3 is filled in for 34 of the 456 items. Under section 6(2), where a circumstance numbered in column 3 applies to the position, the occupation does not apply to the nominee.

Examples of listed occupations with applicable circumstances (section 6(3))

Occupation	ANZSCO code	Circumstance numbers
Chief Executive or Managing Director	111111	1
Accountant (General)	221111	2, 11, 13
Chef	351311	3, 4
Massage Therapist	411611	7
Gas or Petroleum Operator	399212	15
Retail Buyer	639211	6

Applicable circumstances

Section 7(2) is the Applicable Circumstances List. It has 16 items; item 16 was added by the Migration Amendment (Caveats) Specification 2024 (Endnote 4). The summary below is shortened; the instrument sets out the exact wording, including examples and the meaning of limited service restaurant in section 4.

Applicable Circumstances List (section 7(2)), summarised

Item	Circumstance
1	The position has nominated annual earnings of less than AUD180,001 and, if the nominee is to be transferred to fill it, the transfer is not an intra-corporate transfer to which an international trade obligation applies
2	A clerical, bookkeeper or accounting clerk position
3	Involved in mass production in a factory setting
4	In a limited service restaurant
5	Predominantly involves responsibility for low-skilled tasks
6	Front-line retail, direct client transactional interaction, selling educational courses to individual students, or a call centre without significant technical product knowledge
7	Not full-time, not in a therapeutic setting, non-medical relaxation massage, or in a retail setting
8	Not in a commercial building or shopping centre environment, or managing only one service or relationship for a facility
9	Retail mobile phone repairs or repairs of other small consumer mobile devices
10	Mass or standardised production, including a franchise or factory position
11	A business with an annual turnover of less than AUD1,000,000
12	A business with turnover under AUD1,000,000 or fewer than 5 employees, with the intra-corporate transfer qualification
13	A business with fewer than 5 employees
14	Not provided for under an International Trade Obligation
15	Nominated annual earnings of less than AUD120,000
16	A brothel keeper position

Section 8 applies the same list to the Specialist Skills stream: if a circumstance in any item of section 7(2) applies to the position, an occupation referred to in subparagraph 2.72(8)(a)(i) of the Regulations does not apply to a Specialist Skills stream nominee.

Which applications it applies to

Section 9 applies the instrument to a nomination of a proposed occupation made on or after 7 December 2024. Under section 10, LIN 19/048, as in force immediately before that day, continues to apply to a nomination made before it.