Broking hiring in New South Wales
New South Wales had 263 direct-employer broking and finance ads from 23 February to 25 August 2026, against 5,521 brokers on the MFAA directory: 47.6 ads per thousand brokers, the second highest of the five states The Index ranks. It holds 35.4% of Australia's brokers and posted 42.3% of the ads.
- MFAA brokers
- 5,521
- Share of brokers
- 35.4%
- Direct-employer ads
- 263
- Share of ads
- 42.3%
- Ads per 1,000 brokers
- 47.6
How New South Wales compares
Advertised demand set against the size of the broker population in each state. A ratio rather than a count, because it answers the question a principal actually has, which is whether the competition for people is worse where they are than somewhere else.
Direct-employer ads carrying a state, 23 February to 25 August 2026, FinTalent job-ad database, against the MFAA Find a Broker directory of 15,618 state-identified brokers, scraped 4 July 2026. The ACT, Tasmania and the Northern Territory are left out: between them they carry 17 ads, which is too few to rank.
What Sydney pays
Base salary in Sydney broking businesses, from FinTalent's FY26/27 salary guide, which is built from placements rather than from ads.
| Loan Processor (0-3 yrs) | $65k - $80k+ Super |
|---|---|
| Client Service Manager | $80k - $105k+ Super |
| Credit Analyst | $90k - $110k+ Super |
| Broker (2-5 yrs) | $95k - $120k+ Super |
| Senior Broker (5+ yrs) | $120k - $150k+ Super |
How this was counted
The ads come from a standing national search of Seek for Australian broking and finance roles, running since February 2026 and captured daily. 1,038 ads are held for the window, 58.5 per cent of them caught on the day they were posted. Titles are free text, 516 distinct spellings across those ads, so every role figure is grouped into families by a published rule set before it is counted. Recruitment agency and franchise-branded ads are separated out and excluded from anything attributed to an employer, because neither tells you what the hiring business decided.
The full method, including what this edition deliberately does not report, is in The Index, edition one.
More from The Index, edition one
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