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OSCA 461231Updated 2026-01-29
Body Artist
National shortage level: Low
ANZSCO 451814OSCA 461231
Snapshot
Median pay: AUD 32k
Weekly earnings: AUD 620
Salary range: AUD 29k-AUD 35k
Job ads trend: Not listed
Time to hire: Varies
Visa pathways: Check eligibility
State distribution
28.6%
QLD
26.6%
VIC
19.8%
NSW
Education mix
27.5%
year 12
23%
certificate iii/ iv
13.7%
advanced diploma/ diploma
Role overview
Body Artists decorate, adorn or modify the human body by using a range of techniques such as tattooing, piercing, cutting, branding, manipulating, stretching, and scarring the skin.
What you do
- • Explains tattooing procedure to client.
- • Ensures client is certain about wanting a tattoo.
- • Helps the client chose an image, interprets the client's ideas to form a suitable image, copy or design image for the client, resizes image to fit the body part it is going on and makes a stencil of the image.
Core skills
Credentials & pathway
- Recommended level: year 12 (27.5%)
Recent job ads
No ads listed yet.
Tasks
- • Applies cream and antiseptic covers to the finished tattoo.
- • Draws the outline, colouring and shadowing of the tattoo with inked needles.
- • Ensures all sterilisation equipment is kept in good working order.
Earnings
Weekly median: AUD 620
Annual median: AUD 32k
Range: AUD 29k-AUD 35k