Pastrycook (ANZSCO 351112)

On the Short-term Skilled Occupation List and 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 Pastrycook on?

STSOL — Short-term Skilled Occupation List. Occupations on the STSOL can access state-nominated and regional skilled visas (190/491), but not the Skilled Independent 189.

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 Pastrycook comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Pastrycook sits in ANZSCO unit group 3511 Bakers and Pastrycooks alongside Baker, both on STSOL rather than MLTSSL — a six-visa reach (186, 190, 407, 482, 491, 494) with neither 189 (Skilled Independent) nor 485 (Temporary Graduate) available, the same list position Baker carries. TRA's own assessment criteria specific to pastry work, as distinct from bread and general commercial baking, could not be verified in this research, since the authority's website did not resolve during this session.

Where these applications come unstuck

The confusable-code risk here runs against Baker rather than against Chef or Cook in the neighbouring unit group: both Pastrycook and Baker sit on the same list with the same visa reach, so there is no visa-strategy incentive to misclassify between them, but TRA's evidence bar for each — unverifiable here — likely still expects duties that match the specific specialisation named, pastry work rather than general bread and commercial baking, or the reverse.

An honest read on this pathway

Pastrycook's STSOL position closes off 189 and 485, the two pathways Chef (351311) uniquely carries in the neighbouring food-trades unit group despite similar kitchen-adjacent work. This is a list-membership fact, not a comment on the difficulty of pastry work itself, and it means Pastrycook and Baker share the more limited end of this family's visa options — employer sponsorship, state nomination or a regional pathway, rather than the independent or graduate routes Chef alone in this broader food-trades group can reach.

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