FNS60920 is the nationally recognised Advanced Diploma of Paraplanning. It prepares you for work as a financial investment adviser. It is current on the national register, with no earlier version recorded. Employers posted about 650 financial investment adviser jobs in June 2026, up 9.4% on a year earlier.
The signals behind the Advanced Diploma of Paraplanning are mixed, and both sides are worth weighing. Employment is projected to grow through 2035 and job ads in June 2026 were up 9.4% on a year earlier. The official shortage list does not rate its occupations in shortage. These are official statistics, not a promise about your result.
Employers are posting more financial investment adviser jobs than a year ago. About 650 financial investment adviser jobs were advertised online in June 2026, up 9.4% on a year earlier. Over the last 12 months there were about 7,100 job ads, while 370 people were training in the qualification nationally (2025). Ads show the market. Enrolments show the pipeline. Neither is a job promise.
Australia's official shortage list rates financial investment advisers and financial investment managers as not in shortage. The 2025 Occupation Shortage List rates Financial Investment Adviser and Financial Investment Manager as not in shortage.
Financial investment adviser jobs are projected to grow. Jobs and Skills Australia projections put these occupations at 65,810 workers in May 2025, 69,850 by May 2030 (up 6.1%) and 74,187 by May 2035 (up 12.7%).
Enrolments in the Advanced Diploma of Paraplanning are steady. Across Australia, 385 people enrolled in 2024. In 2025 it was 370, down 3.9% in a year. National data for FNS60920 starts in 2021.
The register and the national framework set some of this. Providers set the rest.
State funding for FNS60920 is being verified against official program lists.
Eligibility and student contributions vary by program and provider. The official state listing is the source of truth. In a subsidised place the government pays most of the tuition and you pay a co-contribution set by the program and provider.
The Advanced Diploma of Paraplanning is 12 units: 9 core, plus 3 electives chosen from 45 options on the register.
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Browse coursesGet Course maps FNS60920 to its occupations using the register’s own outcome wording, shown with ANZSCO codes (here, 2223) so the mapping can be checked. Job advertisement counts come from the Jobs and Skills Australia Internet Vacancy Index and count online ads, not vacancies filled. Enrolment counts come from NCVER Total VET Activity and count people in training, not completions. Funding rows appear only after verification against the official state program list. Source vintages: Occupation Shortage List 2025 assessment; employment projections May 2025 to May 2035 release; NCVER Total VET Activity 2025 collection; register training.gov.au, synced 16 September 2026; Jobs and Skills Australia Internet Vacancy Index latest month June 2026; register synced 18 Sept 2026. Page last updated 19 Sept 2026.