Regional WA Jobs: Kalgoorlie Leads Towns With 68 Live Ads, Pilbara Region Has 195 (6 Nov)
Regional WA jobs on 6 Nov 2026: Kalgoorlie has 68 live ads, Karratha 49, Port Hedland 45. See who is hiring in each town and the median pay.
Kalgoorlie had the most live job ads of any regional WA town in our feed on 6 November 2026, with 68. Karratha had 49, and Port Hedland and Bunbury had 45 each. Across the whole Pilbara region, employers were advertising 195 jobs.
Which regional WA towns have the most job ads?
Kalgoorlie leads, with 68 live ads. The mining and port towns of the Pilbara come next, then Bunbury in the South West. Geraldton had the fewest of the eight towns we checked, with 26.
| Town | Live ads | Ads quoting annual pay* | Median annual pay* |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kalgoorlie | 68 | 25 of 50 newest | $107,958 |
| Karratha | 49 | 17 of 48 | $107,958 |
| Port Hedland | 45 | 20 of 45 | $107,958 |
| Bunbury | 45 | 21 of 44 | $97,045 |
| Mandurah | 41 | 15 of 40 | $99,246 |
| Broome | 38 | 19 of 38 | $108,200 |
| Albany | 29 | 19 of 28 | $107,958 |
| Geraldton | 26 | 13 of 26 | $107,220 |
Wider regions run bigger numbers. The Pilbara had 195 live ads and the Goldfields 110. Busselton has no town page in our feed yet, so it isn't in the table.
What is being hired in each town?
The Pilbara towns lean to mining and shutdown work. Mineral Resources posted 11 of Port Hedland's 45 ads, for roles such as blast hole drillers, fitters and dump truck operators. In Karratha, crane and rigging firm Powerlift Industries had 6 ads and civil contractor CORPS had 5.
Kalgoorlie mixes schools and mines. Of its 50 newest ads, the Department of Education posted 17 and Mineral Resources 10. See the full list on our Kalgoorlie jobs page.
Further south, health and community services lead. In Bunbury, the South West Aboriginal Medical Service had 13 of 44 ads. In Broome, Nyamba Buru Yawuru had 10 of 38. Mandurah's top advertiser was the South Metropolitan Health Service, with 10 of 40.
Albany and Geraldton depend most on the public sector. Ads from the WA Government jobs board made up 18 of Albany's 28 ads and 14 of Geraldton's 26.
What do regional WA jobs pay?
Four of the eight towns land on the same median: $107,958. That is the midpoint of the $88,178 to $127,737 range quoted in WA classroom teacher ads. Government ads state pay far more often than private ones, so they set the median in most towns.
Bunbury ($97,045) and Mandurah ($99,246) came in lower. Both had more part-time, care and support roles. Mandurah had 23 part-time ads out of 40.
The highest pay was in Geraldton. The WA Country Health Service advertised a consultant psychiatrist and a consultant emergency medicine role at $424,525 to $539,140 a year.
FIFO ads rarely state the pay
None of the 30 FIFO ads in Karratha and Port Hedland quoted a salary or rate. In Kalgoorlie, 3 of 11 FIFO ads did. One construction electrician role on a 3:1 roster listed $83.30 an hour, and a trainee dump truck operator role listed $38 to $41 an hour. Across the Pilbara, 23 of the 50 newest ads were FIFO. Rio Tinto posted 14 of those 50 ads.
Our FIFO jobs in WA page lists every live roster ad.
What it means for job seekers outside Perth
Outside the mining towns, regional ads are thin. Geraldton and Albany each had fewer than 30 live direct ads, and most were public sector roles. Pilbara and Goldfields ads offer more private-sector work, but expect to ask about pay, because most mining ads don't state it.
Several government ads, such as statewide talent registers, name more than one town. Apply once and list every town you would move to. Browse all Pilbara jobs or every job in Western Australia (1,880 live ads on 6 November).
How we reported this
- Jobs In Perth feed figures observed on 6 November 2026 (direct-from-employer ads only), using each town and region page listed in our locations sitemap.
- Live ad counts are the full live total for each town. Pay, employer, work type and FIFO figures cover the newest ads returned, up to 50. For towns with fewer than 50 ads, that is every ad the feed returned.
- Ads that name several towns are counted in each town. Median pay uses the midpoint of each ad's annual range and excludes hourly rates.
- Advertised pay is the range in the ad, not what a successful applicant will be paid, and it excludes super.
- Cover image: AI-generated illustration, not a photo of the event.
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