Already a subscriber?Surgeons earn more than six times the average Australian worker, taking home more than $480,000 in the 2021-22 financial year and beating out anaesthetists and finance workers to be the country’s highest earners.
Judges and other legal professionals, chief executives and company managing directors, as well as financial investment advisers and managers also recorded some of the highest incomes in the country. About 42 per cent of Australia’s 4170-strong workforce of surgeons had an investment property, topping the list. More than 40 per cent of internal medicine specialists and anaesthetists also invested in real estate.