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Want your kids to be Rich Listers? Suggest these careers

Michelle Bowes

Lawyer or doctor? If you have lofty aspirations for your kids, both are among the highest earning careers they can pursue.

And while either will deliver a healthy income, surgeons top the earnings list, making an average of $472,475 a year in taxable income, according to new Australian Taxation Office data from 2022-23 (the most recent available).

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Michelle Bowes writes about personal finance from our Sydney newsroom. She has been a business journalist for 25 years and is the author of Money Queens: Rule your Money, an award-winning personal finance book for teenage girls. Email Michelle at michelle.bowes@afr.com

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