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Where are we?

Remoteness Major cities 76.6%

Inner Regional Areas 15.9% Outer Regional Areas 6.5% Remote 1.0%

NT 0.7%

QLD 22.3%

Where do we come from?

WA 10.7%

SA 7.4%

NSW 29.4%

Australia 82.9%

ACT 0.9%

UK 4.8%

(0.21% Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander)

VIC 26.7%

Northern America 1.5%

Southern and East Africa 3.2%

Tas 1.9%

Other 6.0%

Where do we work?

Who are we?

Public & private practice 10.8%

Age Average age of practicing speech pathologists 37 years old

2.5%

97.5%

Public practice only 36.6%

Private practice only 52.6%

Average hours worked in a week for male SPs 37.0

Average hours worked in a week for female SPs 30.2

We are seeing a shift in where speech pathologists work towards an increasingly large private sector.

A typical Australian speech pathologist is: • female • working part time (about four days a week) • in her late 30s • Bachelor’s degree educated • living and working in a major city area • Australian born • working in private practice.

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