Posted on August 12 2021

Severe labor crunch in Australia, check your equate PMSOL

By
Anshul Singhal
, Editor

Updated May 10 2023

Australia is facing a severe manpower crunch, migrants needed

The entire world is drastically hit by the Covid-19 pandemic, resulting in an economic crisis. Slowly, all the countries worldwide are recovering from the crisis by implementing new schemes and programs.

Australia is facing a severe labor shortage like many other advanced nations. In order to support the economic recovery, Australia has released the Priority Migration Skilled Occupation List (PMSOL).

Compared to other countries, Australia sets the highest number of openings under its migration program every year. While in 2020 and 2021, the total spaces that existed are capped at a ceiling of 160,000.

Australia's 2021-22 Migration Program planning levels

Stream and Category	Places in 2021-22
Skill stream
Employer Sponsored	22000
Skilled Independent	6500
Regional	11200
State/Territory Nominated	11200
Business Innovation & Investment Program	13500
Global Talent	15000
Distinguished Talent	200
Skill Total	79600
Family Stream
Partner	72300
Parent	4500
Other Family	500
Family Total	77300
Special Eligibility	100
Child (estimate; not subject to a ceiling)	3000
Total	160000

Why PMSOL?

To restore the financial crisis in Australia, PMSOL was launched by the Australian authorities. It is a list of expert occupations, which are highly in demand to fill the crucial expertise positions.

Migrants can use the Y-Axis Australia Skilled Immigration Points calculator to test for eligibility to immigrate to Australia.

Visa applications required for the PMSOL

Given are the priority processing under the following visa subclasses:

TSS visa: Temporary Skill Shortage visa
Skilled Employer-Sponsored Regional (Provisional) visa
ENS visa: Employer Nomination Scheme visa
RSMS visa: Regional Sponsored Migration Scheme visa

If the migrant is granted any of the above visas, they will be given an exemption to travel to Australia. The exemption can be applied by migrant or by the employer.

Remember that the mandatory 14-day quarantine period will apply even the migrants are exempted, and the expenses will be at the traveler or sponsor’s expense.

List jobs are included under PMSOL

The PMSOL was announced in September 2020, and later it was subjected to many changes by the Australian government based on the skill demands.

Finally, on June 27, 2021, Alex Hawke (the Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services, and Multicultural Affairs) has released the final list of PMSOL having 44 occupations. This also includes Hospital pharmacists, Industrial pharmacists, and Retail Pharmacists.

Priority Migration Skilled Occupation List in June 2021

The 44 occupations in PMSOL include the following: