Painter (ANZSCO 332211)

On the Core Skills 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 Painter on?

CSOL — Core Skills Occupation List. The employer-sponsorship list — occupations on the CSOL can be nominated for the Skills in Demand visa (subclass 482) and the Employer Nomination Scheme 186.

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).

Skills assessment

A positive skills assessment for Painter comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Painter is ANZSCO 2022's current name for unit group 3322, alternative title Painter and Decorator, specialisation House Painter — applying paint, varnish, wallpaper and other finishes to protect, maintain and decorate building surfaces. This is the name Home Affairs' Core Skills Occupation List uses for code 332211, so it is the row an employer-sponsored 482 or 186 applicant nominates under. TRA runs no page specific to Painter; the assessment is the standard document-based Migration Skills Assessment, built around a formal trade qualification and verifiable, documented pay evidence for every claimed period of paid employment — cash work without a paper trail is not accepted.

Where these applications come unstuck

The same ANZSCO code 332211 also appears under an older name, Painting Trades Worker, carrying a different visa list entirely — nominating under the wrong one for the visa actually being sought is the defining risk for this occupation. A House Painter nominating for a points-tested 189 or 491 route needs the Painting Trades Worker row, not this one; nominating Painter for those visas would be lodging against a list that does not support them. Beyond that, MSA's ordinary evidence rules bite hard: an occupational licence cannot substitute for the formal qualification TRA requires, and academic qualifications such as a bachelor's degree are explicitly flagged as usually lacking the practical trade content the assessment needs.

An honest read on this pathway

Under the Painter name, this code reaches subclass 186 and 482 — the sponsored routes — through Core Skills Occupation List membership, subject to the usual salary-threshold rules for that stream. It does not reach 189, 190, 407, 485 or 491 under this name; those sit with the Painting Trades Worker row instead. Processing gets a boost regardless of which name is used: TRA's construction occupations list marks this trade Prioritised, meaning faster handling at no extra fee, though not Streamlined, so there is no document-only shortcut past the standard assessment logic for any passport country.

Going through Trades Recognition Australia? TRA pathways lean heavily on documented work history and evidence of on-the-job experience. The Employment History Builder reconstructs it with gap detection, so the record you submit holds together.

Talk it through with a registered agent

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