Office Manager (ANZSCO 512111)

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 Office 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.

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 Office Manager comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Office Manager is a VETASSESS Group C occupation sitting on both the Regional Occupation List and the Core Skills Occupation List, reaching 186, 482 and 494 — the only code among the three office/practice-manager codes in this family (Office Manager, Health Practice Manager, Practice Managers nec) that reaches employer sponsorship under 482, despite all three sharing ANZSCO's broader practice/office-manager family grouping.

Where these applications come unstuck

Office Manager's own page excludes "Practice Managers" as an entire ANZSCO unit group, not just the two specific codes: "Practice Managers organise and control the functions and resources of professional practices such as administrative systems and practice personnel" is named as a different occupation from Office Manager, differing mainly in whether the setting is a general commercial office or a professional practice (medical, dental, veterinary, legal, accounting, architectural). A job ad using the loose title "practice manager" for what is actually general office administration does not settle which code applies.

An honest read on this pathway

This is the code with 482 employer-sponsorship access that the two practice-manager codes beside it do not have, so correctly distinguishing a general office role from a professional-practice role has real visa consequences, not just a paperwork difference. VETASSESS requires an organisational chart naming staff supervised as part of the evidence for this managerial occupation, and an applicant whose actual employer was a medical, legal or veterinary practice should not default here on the assumption that Office Manager is the safer, more general-sounding option.

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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