New Zealand is a country with a whole lot of opportunities to earn. Before filing your New Zealand Visa application, this information can come in handy to decide what type of Visa you should go for and what is the current status of the Job market. There are high and low paying jobs, but the earnings depend highly of these factors :

1.     Qualifications and the type of New Zealand Work Permit/Work Visa/Visa

2.     What skill sets you have (and in how much demand are they)

3.     The location of work

The highest paying jobs can range from the average salary of a Marketing manager/marketing, media and communications manager that is $95,000, going all the way up to an annual income of $125,000, that goes to an Information technology systems architect. The other skills in this list include the job profile of a Information technology manager/project manager, Commercial real estate agent, Doctor/specialist, Information technology consultant/sales rep/security specialist, Engineering manager, Bank, finance and insurance manager, Energy engineer, In-house counsel (law), Property consultant and valuer, Corporate institutional banker and Information technology business systems analyst. The salaries range from $95K to $115K.

The highest paying industries, hence, being the following :

·        Engineering

·        Real estate and property

·        IT

·        Consultancy and strategy

·        Banking and financial services

·        Information and communications technology

However, according to a survey, these were the lowest paying job professions in New Zealand in 2014 :

Process and assembly worker, Tour guide, Waiter/waitress  ,Cleaner  ,Assistant store manager all at an average of $35,000, followed by the professions of Caregiver Retail assistant , Au pair and nanny , Bar staff and barista , Kitchen hand  and Housekeeper all settling from $32,000 to $33,000. These made the lowest paying industries to be as follows :

·        Manufacturing and operations

·        Call centre and customer service

·        Administration and office support

·        Hospitality and tourism

·        Transport and logistics

·        Retail sales

However, there are legal current hourly minimum wage rates (for ages 16 and above) are $14.75/hour and above, it was discovered that the full-time median income (in June 2014) was about $51,000, that is about $989 per week. However, the median weekly income that came from wages and salaries came out to be $882, and the median hourly earnings in June, 2014 were around $22.83.

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