It’s not that easy to find a high paying job that you can do from home anymore. Photo / 123rf
By Susan Edmunds e RNZ
If you want a high-paying work-from-home role, you’re likely to find it in IT – but there’s a caveat, opportunities may be dwindling.
Trade Me data released to RNZ shows the top 10 highest paying roles that offer candidates the ability to work from home.
Topping the list is IT project management, with an average salary of $130,833.
It is followed by project and contract management in construction and roads, with $122,917. Civil and structural engineering roles came in third, with an average work-from-home salary of $117,326.
Rounding out the top five were business and systems analysts, as well as IT programmers and developers, both of whom paid an average of more than $100,000 when working from home.
Trade Me Jobs sales director Matt Tolich said there didn’t appear to be any negative impact on work-from-home pay.
But he said there had been a decline in the number of jobs offered from home.
About 45 percent of businesses offered flexible working, up from 60 percent last year, he said.
But he said only 14 percent of employees named it as one of their top five priorities when considering a role.
Seek said on its website that the number of job ads indicating the role could be done from home stood at 8.9 percent by December, up from 10.3 percent last September.
Working from home was only a viable option in some industries.
Around a third of jobs in insurance and pensions can be done from home and a quarter of IT and banking and financial services roles.
More than 40 percent of insurance roles were listed with the ability to work from home.
Frog Recruitment managing director Shannon Barlow said the market had changed.
“The desire for it is definitely still there, it’s something that is really valued by employees and job seekers.”
But she said jobseekers no longer had the power to set their own terms.
“They probably still ask that question, but it’s not so much of a deal breaker now. Job security is more important.”
She said sometimes employers who are unable to provide a pay rise may look at other benefits, such as flexibility, to make the package offered more attractive.
Highest paying jobs by subcategory, category and average salary:
- Project Management – IT – $130,833
- Project and Contract Management – Construction and Routing – $122,917
- Civil and Structural – Engineering – $117,326
- Business and Systems Analysts – IT – $112,857
- Programming and Development – IT – $109,615
- Business Development Manager – Sales – $98,864
- HR – HR and Recruiting – $96,429
- Water and Waste – Engineering – $95,217
- Local and regional council – Government and council – $93,500
- Accountants – Accounting – $91,341
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