Sydney - a great place
to live and work
Sydney welcomes business and skilled migrants and expatriate Australians returning after living and working overseas.
Business Migration
With our strong economy, dynamic business environment and relaxed lifestyle, New South Wales (NSW) is a great place to do business, work and live.
Our capital city, Sydney, boasts an enviable quality of life. Sydney was ranked 10th out of 221 cities reviewed in the 2010 Worldwide Quality of Living Index compiled by Mercer Human Resource Consulting.
Opportunities for business and skilled migrants
NSW offers many career and employment opportunities, and welcomes business and skilled migrants as well as expatriate Australians returning after living and working overseas.
There are also many casual, temporary and full time employment opportunities for working holiday makers and other temporary visa holders.
Skills in demand
The State has 40 per cent of Australia's ICT employment. Specialist ICT businesses employ almost 100,000 people. NSW is also home to 80 per cent of the multinational pharmaceutical companies in the country. NSW offers great career opportunities for professionals in these industries.
The NSW Government seeks highly skilled professionals and business people in finance, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and information and communications technology and sustainable environmental technologies to settle in Sydney, and in health care, engineering and trades to settle in regional NSW.
KEY FACTS
- NSW is Australia's largest State economy. In 2009-10, NSW's gross state product was valued at $406.9 billion or about 31.7 per cent of Australia's gross domestic product.
- More than 57 per cent of the State's working-age population is tertiary educated, the highest of all Australian States.
- Sydney is ranked 10th in the world out of 221 cities reviewed in Mercer's 2010 Worldwide Quality of Living Survey.
Related Websites
NSW Business MigrationFind out more about migrating to Sydney and NSW by visiting NSW Trade & Investment's business migration website.
www.business.nsw.gov.au/migration
Australian Department of Immigration and Citizenship
The Australian Department of Immigration and Citizenship contains all the information you need about visas and migration.
Sydney.com
Thinking of visiting Sydney for your vacation? Presented by Tourism NSW, Sydney.com is a comprehensive site of things to see and do in Sydney and New South Wales.
