Wholesaler (ANZSCO 133312)
On the Regional Occupation List
From the official Home Affairs skilled occupation lists, as at 2026-08-12. Lists change at each government update — always confirm on the official page before acting.
Which lists is Wholesaler on?
ROL — Regional Occupation List. Occupations on the ROL are limited to the regional provisional visas — mainly the Skilled Work Regional 491 and Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional 494.
Visas this occupation can access
Being on a list makes the occupation nominatable for these visas — each visa still has its own requirements (points, age, English, a positive skills assessment, and for sponsored visas a willing employer or state).
- Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional visa (subclass 494) — Provisional, regional employer sponsored · all occupations for the 494
Skills assessment
A positive skills assessment for Wholesaler comes from:
- Vocational Education and Training Assessment Services (VETASSESS) (official site) · our guide to the VETASSESS process
What the assessment actually involves
Wholesaler is a VETASSESS Group B occupation on ROL only, reaching a single visa subclass, Skills in Demand Regional. VETASSESS states the occupation expects overall control of company operations and rules out one specific adjacent setting: employment in retail stores is not accepted. Importer or Exporter is named as a separate, excluded occupation on this page, the mirror of the exclusion running the other way — the two codes are treated as distinct despite an identical visa reach and near-identical managerial-control wording.
Where these applications come unstuck
Like Importer or Exporter, this code names Wholesale Business Owner as a suitable title but has no self-employment evidence section on its page — only the standard organisational chart, which a genuine sole operator with no staff has no clear way to satisfy. Someone whose actual work is retail-facing, even where the business also does bulk purchasing, is explicitly excluded by the retail-stores wording; the distinction VETASSESS draws is about the buyer relationship the role manages, not the general scale of goods handled.
An honest read on this pathway
One visa subclass, and the same owner-operator gap found in Importer or Exporter: business owners are invited to nominate this code by name, but no self-employment evidence path is published to match, only the organisational chart a solo trader may not be able to produce. An employee running wholesale operations inside a company with real staff has a documentable, if narrow, pathway; a genuine sole-trader wholesaler does not have a stated one.
VETASSESS assesses qualifications and employment separately. Both need documentation that agrees with itself. The Employment History Builder and Document Vault organise each trail before you lodge.
Talk it through with a registered agent
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