AN Australian worker makes £100,000 year doing a job that no one wants and has to work double the hours of a regular person.
Richard Detering reveals on TikTok his salary and shares why the perks are worth the sacrifice.
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Richard is a heavy diesel mechanic working on a fly-in-fly-out basis in the mines.
The savvy worker confessed his salary is over £87,000 a year and on top of that he gets 15 per cent yearly bonus.
This brings his earnings to a little over £100,000 a year before tax.
Even though, Australian laws require high-earning employees to pay a whopping £27,000 for income tax, Richard is still able to walk away with a hefty sum in his pocket at the end of the day.
He revealed that he is left with £5,000 on his hands every month.
The savvy worker also shared that despite working only half a year, the hours are long.
He spends two weeks on the job with 84 hours a week schedule.
Compared to a traditional 40-hour week, Richard has to work double the hours.
But in the end it works out for him as he makes £53,000 more than the average salary in Australia for his line of work.
If holidays are excluded, an ordinary worker spends 1,800 hours a year in the office.
For FIFO workers, the amount of hours is significantly higher at 2,016 hours.
And the job itself requires physical strength for the manual labour.
But Richard says the benefits of the job are worth the sacrifice.
“Having to only think about work for about six months of the year has been more than enough reason to make certain other sacrifices,” he added.
Another savvy worker shared how he has managed to find a job which pays him more than $14,000 a week – eight times that which he’d earn in a graduate job.
Similarly, a British woman has revealed how she rakes in the cash doing a dirt job no one wants – and she got a huge pay rise recently.
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