Nurseryperson (ANZSCO 362411)

On the Regional 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 Nurseryperson 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.

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 Nurseryperson comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Nurseryperson sits on TRA's Migration Skills Assessment catch-all, unless this specific passport-and-occupation combination is mandatorily routed to the Offshore or TSS program; neither list is published in full on TRA's site, and Nurseryperson is not one of TRA's four named licensed trades that would force that routing on its own. MSA checks a qualification documentarily: TRA states that work experience cannot substitute for one, and neither can an occupational licence. Propagating and cultivating plants in a nursery or forestry setting is the task description this code is assessed against, and no English test applies to any TRA program at all.

Where these applications come unstuck

Nurseryperson is the mirror image of Florist, Gardener (General) and Greenkeeper in this family: it carries CSOL, so 186 and 482 are genuinely available, but it has no 189 and no 485, so anyone planning around a points-tested independent visa or a post-study pathway on this code will find neither exists. A second pitfall specific to this occupation: the Horticulture Industry Labour Agreement does name Nurseryperson, Nursery Supervisor and Senior Nurseryperson roles, all against the real skilled code 362411, but assuming any horticulture-adjacent labour-agreement role maps this cleanly is wrong for the other five trades here.

An honest read on this pathway

An employer genuinely can sponsor a Nurseryperson toward permanent residence via 186 or 482, subject to the salary thresholds that apply to every Core Skills Stream nomination and are indexed each 1 July. The Horticulture Industry Labour Agreement is a real, additional sponsorship door for this specific code, and unlike some other industry agreements in this pipeline it sponsors Nurseryperson under its genuine skilled code rather than an administrative placeholder; but the agreement's occupation table names only Nurseryperson-family roles, not the other five trades in this family, so it is not a broader back door than that.

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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