Backpackers on $3500 a week cashing in on WA boom times
Aug 31st 2008, 1:11 pm
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Backpackers on $3500 a week cashing in on WA boom times
Interesting article in The West Australian:
"They have been stereotyped as impoverished dishwashers and fruit pickers, but backpackers working in WA are routinely earning more than $60,000 a year because of the State’s chronic labour shortage, according to Perth’s biggest backpacker recruitment agency....."
read more: http://www.thewest.com.au/default.as...ontentID=95023
"They have been stereotyped as impoverished dishwashers and fruit pickers, but backpackers working in WA are routinely earning more than $60,000 a year because of the State’s chronic labour shortage, according to Perth’s biggest backpacker recruitment agency....."
read more: http://www.thewest.com.au/default.as...ontentID=95023
Aug 31st 2008, 1:35 pm
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Re: Backpackers on $3500 a week cashing in on WA boom times
[QUOTE=Perthine;6734324]Interesting article in The West Australian:
"They have been stereotyped as impoverished dishwashers and fruit pickers, but backpackers working in WA are routinely earning more than $60,000 a year because of the State’s chronic labour shortage, according to Perth’s biggest backpacker recruitment agency....."
read more: [url]http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=77&C
This is also the same Newspaper that quotes unskilled labourers on sites in Perth earning in excess of $110k a year working a 36hr week. I would take what you read in this paper with a pinch of salt. Wa and Perth is alledegely the highest paid part of the country for Qualified tradies and i have yet to meet any that earn that much for a 36 hr week
John
"They have been stereotyped as impoverished dishwashers and fruit pickers, but backpackers working in WA are routinely earning more than $60,000 a year because of the State’s chronic labour shortage, according to Perth’s biggest backpacker recruitment agency....."
read more: [url]http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=77&C
This is also the same Newspaper that quotes unskilled labourers on sites in Perth earning in excess of $110k a year working a 36hr week. I would take what you read in this paper with a pinch of salt. Wa and Perth is alledegely the highest paid part of the country for Qualified tradies and i have yet to meet any that earn that much for a 36 hr week
John
Aug 31st 2008, 1:43 pm
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Re: Backpackers on $3500 a week cashing in on WA boom times
im dying to write what i really want to but,ive been there and been attacked for that..
Aug 31st 2008, 1:47 pm
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john ,i know back packers that know backpackers that are doing well over 200k a year.
they have to do plenty of extra work for that though.
Interesting article in The West Australian:
"They have been stereotyped as impoverished dishwashers and fruit pickers, but backpackers working in WA are routinely earning more than $60,000 a year because of the State’s chronic labour shortage, according to Perth’s biggest backpacker recruitment agency....."
read more: [url]http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=77&C
This is also the same Newspaper that quotes unskilled labourers on sites in Perth earning in excess of $110k a year working a 36hr week. I would take what you read in this paper with a pinch of salt. Wa and Perth is alledegely the highest paid part of the country for Qualified tradies and i have yet to meet any that earn that much for a 36 hr week
John
"They have been stereotyped as impoverished dishwashers and fruit pickers, but backpackers working in WA are routinely earning more than $60,000 a year because of the State’s chronic labour shortage, according to Perth’s biggest backpacker recruitment agency....."
read more: [url]http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=77&C
This is also the same Newspaper that quotes unskilled labourers on sites in Perth earning in excess of $110k a year working a 36hr week. I would take what you read in this paper with a pinch of salt. Wa and Perth is alledegely the highest paid part of the country for Qualified tradies and i have yet to meet any that earn that much for a 36 hr week
John
john ,i know back packers that know backpackers that are doing well over 200k a year.
they have to do plenty of extra work for that though.
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Aug 31st 2008, 3:33 pm
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Re: Backpackers on $3500 a week cashing in on WA boom times
What sort of extra work Aston. Sowing on buttons, fluffing up pillars a good hard Sh*g.
Or What.
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Aug 31st 2008, 3:44 pm
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Re: Backpackers on $3500 a week cashing in on WA boom times
Mr Robbins’ travelling companion, Lee Denning, a 22-year-old plasterer from Bristol, said he came to Perth because he had heard it was not only nice and relaxed, but the place to go to line your pockets. “There’s so much opportunity here,” he said. “Perth is known in Britain as a place to go for money, especially if you are a tradesman, a plasterer or something. It’s known for all the work and how easygoing it is.”
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Aug 31st 2008, 11:18 pm
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Re: Backpackers on $3500 a week cashing in on WA boom times
Interesting article in The West Australian:
"They have been stereotyped as impoverished dishwashers and fruit pickers, but backpackers working in WA are routinely earning more than $60,000 a year because of the State’s chronic labour shortage, according to Perth’s biggest backpacker recruitment agency....."
read more: http://www.thewest.com.au/default.as...ontentID=95023
"They have been stereotyped as impoverished dishwashers and fruit pickers, but backpackers working in WA are routinely earning more than $60,000 a year because of the State’s chronic labour shortage, according to Perth’s biggest backpacker recruitment agency....."
read more: http://www.thewest.com.au/default.as...ontentID=95023
the two in this report must be then the very few that have work on construction sites. Reading the 'Update Forum' paints a different picture. British brikkies and alike are hanging around contruction sites asking for work and those who have work seems to struggle to make ends meet. Let's face it, construction is drying up and those working in hospitality never earned big money, although overpriced retaurant meals in Perth give the impression that somebody is earning money in the industry.
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Re: Backpackers on $3500 a week cashing in on WA boom times
the two in this report must be then the very few that have work on construction sites. Reading the 'Update Forum' paints a different picture. British brikkies and alike are hanging around contruction sites asking for work and those who have work seems to struggle to make ends meet. Let's face it, construction is drying up and those working in hospitality never earned big money, although overpriced retaurant meals in Perth give the impression that somebody is earning money in the industry.
