Fitness Centre Manager (ANZSCO 149112)

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 Fitness Centre Manager 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).

Processing priority

Fitness Centre Manager isn't in any of the ANZSCO groups that Directions 121 and 122 list for the priority sectors. Some of the first group is defined by the job rather than the code: a nominated position directly involved in agriculture, aquaculture or fishing, one that directly supports mining, oil and gas or coal production, or one related to defence. Otherwise the application is processed after the priority sectors. For the permanent and provisional skilled visas, applicants who were in Australia when they applied come next, then those who applied from outside Australia. For the 482, Specialist Skills stream applications come before both.

Priority changes the order in which lodged applications are looked at, not whether they are granted. Who is invited to apply through SkillSelect is decided separately. See all 202 occupations in the priority sectors.

Skills assessment

A positive skills assessment for Fitness Centre Manager comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Fitness Centre Manager is Group C, AQF Diploma or higher, confirmed directly on VETASSESS's own page, under the family's standard four-pathway trade-off between field relevance and years of employment. It sits alongside Sports Centre Manager and Amusement Centre Manager as one of three closely related centre-management titles on identical Regional Occupation List reach — meaning the confusable-code risk here is not about which visa is reachable, since all three share the same list, but about whether the actual duties match the specific title nominated.

Where these applications come unstuck

Sports Centre Manager's own occupation page names Fitness Centre Manager as an explicit exclusion — the two are treated as genuinely different occupations by VETASSESS even though a gym and an indoor sports centre can look similar from outside. An applicant managing a facility that blends both gym and sports-court activities should look closely at where the bulk of the role's actual duties sit before choosing between the two, rather than assuming either is a safe default for a mixed facility.

An honest read on this pathway

This code reaches the graduate 407, Skilled Work Regional and Skills in Demand Regional — solid regional access, but no state nomination and no employer sponsorship outside a labour agreement. A fitness centre manager's pathway runs through a regional visa or a graduate route, not a direct employer-sponsored visa, regardless of how large the gym chain or how senior the role.

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.

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