bluenose27

Hello,

Me and my boyfriend are coming over to Oz on working holiday visas and I wondered what the average wage is? I would be going over getting any office, temping or bar work as my journalism profession may be harder to get into.My bf is a carpenter and will ideally be looking for something related to that field.

Many thanks,

Jeni

NJJ

Tax is the killer. Whatever you end up doing you will be taxed at 29%. IIRC it's about 47% if you don't apply for a TFN. These web sites seem to have some useful info:

http://www.ctherealthing.com/jobs.html

http://www.workstay.com.au/working_holiday_tax.htm

http://www.immi.gov.au/visitors/work...iday/index.htm

nessyp

You will probably find you will be unlucky to earning under $17 per hour doing most jobs. Also yes you do pay tax but i got all mine back when i left, just go into an accountants and they will sort it. There are plenty of these accountants around and i got charged $99 and got over $3000 dollars back when i left oz, which payed for a lovely trip around nz.
Ps definatley get a tfn otherwise like njj said you will pay 47% tax. We also got paid super annuation which is waiting for us to top up when we get back to oz