Aussie fresh out of high school reveals $60 per hour job he nabbed with no experience: 'Straight away'
An Aussie fresh out of high school has revealed the job that pays him $60 per hour, and he didn't need any experience to nab the role. The man was stopped on the streets of Brisbane and said he worked for the government as a ground officer.
His main role revolved around processing claims stemming from natural disasters, which has likely been in hot demand in the Sunshine State following ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred. While it's not what he wants to do forever, he said it's well-paid for a job that doesn't require qualifications.
"I literally left high school last year, and I'm just into this job straight away," he told job app GetAhead.
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The Brisbane worker said he's on a level in the Queensland public sector called AO4, which stands for the fourth tier of the Administrative Stream.
In this sector, employees undertake various "administrative, customer, financial, information and advisory services".
There are more than a dozen AO4 level jobs being advertised on SEEK at the moment.While he didn't need a certificate or experience to get the role, he did reveal the one skill set you might want to have under your belt if you wanted to get a similar job.
"To be honest, man, you just gotta have really good communication and people skills," he said.
"[My] biggest advice [to people in high school] is to pick up people skills.
"Talk to more people. I'm telling you, if you know how to talk to people and understand people, you'll go places that money can't take you."
Earning $60 per hour would see a person earn $2,400 per week, $9,600 per month and $115,200 per year.
That's well above the average salary for someone, especially one who's straight out of high school with no qualifications or experience.
According to GradConnection, the base annual salary for recent university graduates hovers around the $60,000 to $70,000 mark.
Once you work your way out of the graduate space, the Australian Bureau of Statistics claims the average wage is $102,742.
Averages can be tricky because people earning huge sums of money can skew the data higher and misrepresent how much the everyday Aussie is making.
The median salary, which is far more accurate, for a full-time worker is $88,400 per year.
That's $7,366 per month, $1,841 per week, and $46 per hour.
When you take into account part-time workers, though, the Grattan Institute found the median wage was just $67,786.
Interestingly, a Yahoo Finance poll of more than 9,000 readers found that a quarter of people said they would need to be earning more than $200,000 to live comfortably in today's economic conditions.
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