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Speak Out
February 2015
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Remoteness
Major cities
76.6%
Inner Regional Areas
15.9%
Outer Regional Areas
6.5%
Remote
1.0%
Where do we come from?
Where do
we work?
NSW
29.4%
VIC
26.7%
QLD
22.3%
Tas
1.9%
SA
7.4%
NT
0.7%
WA
10.7%
ACT
0.9%
Where are we?
Australia
82.9%
(0.21% Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander)
UK
4.8%
Northern
America
1.5%
Southern and
East Africa
3.2%
Other
6.0%
Age
Average age
of practicing
speech
pathologists
37 years old
97.5%
2.5%
Who are we?
Average hours
worked in a week
for female SPs
30.2
Average hours
worked in a week
for male SPs
37.0
Private
practice only
52.6%
Public
practice only
36.6%
Public
& private
practice
10.8%
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.