I know it's a naive question. I really am wondering what are these jobs? I've been living in Melourne for less than a year. Economic distribution of wealth is quite fair here in Australia. So, most of the people earn the same as others, but there are rich people. I just want to know, what kind of sector or jobs you can earn that much?
Jobs Where You Can Make over 100K a Year?
LAdiOZ on 11/10/2017 - 19:32
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- 60Money doesn't represent life
- 98I wanna know
- 319Yeah.. I earn around 100K
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@serpserpserp: If you want to do an undergrad degree at a decent university, the entry is around 90. Maybe a little lower, maybe a little higher, depending on the year and demand. (example 89.30 for Arts at Melbourne Uni). After that, students often to Dip Eds. I'll agree with you that education degrees with their low entry scores do nothing to help the profession, and while some competent teachers can come from this program, it is more of a vocational entry than an academic one.
I didn't say anything about low entry scores for education degrees. I don't think simplistically about things like that. I don't think hiking the education degrees up to 90 will do anything to be honest. People go into teaching as you say, for vocational reasons, but also for what everyone else has been pointing out, the good peaks.
Wow I had an argument the other day with someone who had NFI. Not sure why everyone takes a shit on teachers. Not going to get into it again but a typical day for a teacher during the term is 8am-5pm and then 2-3 hours after school. That's a 11-12 hour regular day, not including when they have all of the extra meetings etc. Furthermore, no teacher is employed straight away, they have to work CRT for a couple of years and I would strongly contend teachers have one of the most important and hardest jobs in our contemporary society. Teachers hardly bludge. In fact, all of the teachers I know spend at least 1 of the 2 week "holidays" at school catching up. They also have to do lesson plans, grade papers, go to functions and events (camps, parent-teacher days, excursions, conferences, personal development, sports days etc.), deal with parents after school etc., all outside of their paid hours. On a general workday, teachers rock up at 7:30-8:00am and leave at about 4:30-5:00pm, then spend a couple of hours preparing for the next day (anywhere from 2 to 3 usually). Unfortunately ATAR doesn't correlate with being the best teacher, especially at primary level. I thought it was bullshit one of my professors spouted for the many morons, but it's definitely true. On the other side, there are many people who could of done something else but chose teaching, I spent a couple of years doing Law at a g08 and hated it (could of got into anything bar medicine) and chose teaching, couldn't be happier. Primary is loads of fun, Secondary is challenging but very rewarding. Job satisfaction > money. Teachers work (profanity) hard for every $ of that 100k (which they get after like 8 years, starting salary is 70k)
One thing I have noted in this thread is that the people who are ignorant and disrespectful towards the teaching profession are poorly educated and can barely string a coherent sentence together. Conversely, those defending education are articulate and measured in their response. It does make you think about the motivation of the people attacking the profession.
Relax, it's an internet forum not a PHD thesis.
nobody is attacking the profession - all people have done is lay down some bare facts, whether you agree with it or not is an opinion which you have turned against people.
i have had these conversations with teachers and principal class over many years and the teachers themselves worry about there profession because they to can see it sliding and a lot of them arent happy with the teachers they work with because of this - you get a couple of ordinary ones and it drags the rest down with them. the teaching unions haven't done teachers any favours either but thats a whole new avenue of discussion.
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Anyone hiring? Looking for job. Hopefully 100k a year.
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A relative of mine recently had cable internet connected to her new house. The guy who did the installation said he was earning about $140k after only a few weeks training to learn the job. Hours would probably be pretty crappy but nice $$$ on limited qualifications.
I'm in finance and earn around $120-$130k depending on bonus (base $110k). I must look up that cable installation course.
Risk & Compliance Manager for wealth management / boutique firms can earn circa $120K-150K / yr
Why I single this out amongst the hundreds of fields is that from experience, a general business/finance/accounting/commerce type degree is easily a pathway into this, so quite low barriers to entry.
There would be many of these sorts of entities in existence in Melbourne I am sure.Why $100k? I don't understand the appeal of this number. It's not what you make but what you keep. Within reason.
I’m 26 and earn $107K p.a and am currently being headhunted for a role paying ~$135k p.a.
No uni degree, didn’t finish high school and have no tertiary education whatsoever. I work in the corporate world (Business Optimisation) focusing on cost out. I’ve been lucky to get to where I am based on no tertiary education/prior experience and most would consider me a high earner especially for my age but I’m essentially very poor due to my spending habits and lifestyle.
I have friends earning $40K p.a who much more financially stable and wealthy than myself, so whilst having a high paying job is great, it’s more about how much you keep at the end of the day.
Someone posted a YouTube link earlier to a breakdown of rich dad poor dad which I thought wasn’t too bad as a high level explanation. To answer the OP’s question, the jobs I’ve seen go in my industry post 100k are Senior Managers/Directors of departments, data scientists and delivery managers.
Well whats the point of having a lot of money if you cant have a good time bloke keep spending!
Hahaha because long term it’s really not great for the future. Got to get it under control!
How did you enter in the corporate world (Business Optimisation)? What do you essentially do in the job?
Good question.
I work for one of the big telcos and actually started in the tech call centre 3 years ago, from there I moved to Quality Assurance, then short term forecasting to medium to long range forecasting and now into Optimisation.
I was able to demonstrate my hunger and drive as a well as a willingness to learn that many others in the company don’t display, this put me above a lot of, probably more qualified applicants internally for those positions.
Like I said earlier, I got pretty lucky - people say I saw opportunities and seized them but I still see it as part luck part ambition that got me where I am with no experience or tertiary education.
Technical marketing or sales.
Finance practioners.Store manager at Maccas
Trolley Pusher at Coles
Toilet Cleaner at Westfield
Garbo at a public schoolEnjoy your lifestyle with the 6 digit payouts!
Aus Post CEO.
Anyone suggested Bitcoin trader?
Can you specify before or after tax.. cuz it means alot…
This.
Asset management systems / mech eng
Software engineering.
Project managers, lead sales, software engineers, any middle management big 4, private utilities, metro trains.
Nobody will pay you a large salary, unless you have one of the following;
1. Particular skills, training, education,
2. Going to certain locations where there arent enough workers in that field (probably because it is not an area which most people would prefer to live) .
3. There is a certain danger or discomfort involved .
And there would be others to add to that list.
The main thing to think about, is … "WHY IS AN EMPLOYER GOING TO PAY YOU A VERY HIGH SALARY" .
As an entrepreneur, this is something I was forced to consider in hiring, ie. 1 of my friends wanted to work for me, but he wanted a job very high wage, didnt want to do anything he had done before (so untrained & inexperienced) he wanted to be a lovely work enironment, didnt want to work hard, wanted a job witg convenient hours, and where he could walk to work, Yet he wanted a very high wage .
Money doesnt usually fall from the sky, an employer has to have a reason to pay yoy a very high wage, because ofherwise they can just hire someone else for much less $ .keep in mind, $100k + roles arent nessecarily easy. be prepared to get your ass kicked if you dont deliver. there will be more stress, more time spent on the job and as a result, less sleep. it wont be easy street rock up late, have a 2 hr lunch break leave at 4:55 etc
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Housewives with big sponsors/ ppl inherited a ton of money or won the lotto/ elderly people / regelious ppl? God will provide?/parents b4 80s?65
New grad/ new immigrant / comfortable with no change in jobs/ most probably new members of ozbargain221
Professional/Tradies/senior public servant/business owners/veteran ozbargain membersStay long enough and you will learn that making more money is very important in ozbargain.
dont find a job, way too slow earning the money and not much fun. My brother earns more than $10millions per year just buying/selling market shares.
if you are not smart enough for playing shares, then how about trades people.
I always think it's a rip off paying electricians $160 per hour or plumber $360 per hour. All the trades people make a fortune, more than doctors do. this is very odd to me, higher educaton in this country doesn't mean you can earn more.people (like you) seem to not understand the nature of call out fees. say you want an electrician to come do a quick 20 minute job. would he really travel 30-60 minutes, spend money on petrol and do the job, for say $20? thats probably a total of 3 hours out of his day to do that 20 minute job which according to you means he would be charging around $7 an hour.
people like don't understand travlling 30-60mins doesn't cost that much. petrol doesn't cost that much, not $360 per hour. And those local trades are just serving nearby suburb. You can continue to encourage the rip off of labour fee, i don't care. They cannot earn any money from me, OP ask what jobs earns 100k+, i replied trades are the easiest ones.
Most electricians and plumbers will make this. People in some of the more generous factories in Australia, such as Peters Icecream…yep couldn't believe it myself. With overtime etc some of the factory workers are on 130k a year. No wonder Streets icecream moved most operations to China. Courier drivers (if you are very efficient). Any job on a union site. Only in this country really. Makes you wonder why bother finishing year 12 and going to uni at all.
Millage may vary, an electrician on award wage picks up less than $60k before tax and that can happen in union heavy areas.
I've done my time as an apprentice and there's apprentices earning more than myself as a tradesman.
I haven't read all the comments but to offer my own experience. I was working for a large institution as a Paraplanner and now do that for myself, from home. I am at least on track to be earning what I had as a salary and have really cut back on the hours, about 5 hours work a day now. I get paid for each SOA I write and so if I did say 1.5-2 a day then I would be well over 100k. (takes about 4 hours to do 1, on average, depending on strategy different prices etc, average $/h is $80 + GST) At the moment really liking the freedom from working from home and contracting through an outsource provider. They take care of the work flow/ build relationship with the Adviser and I complete the work.
Not needing to bus into work and from work saves 1 hour each day. So my typical 9-5 job plus transport of 1 hour a day, has been cut down from 45 hours a week to about 25 hours. If I did 45 hours, that would be serious cash. If you know financial planning/ have an interest complete the Diploma and learn how to use the programs COIN and XPLAN. Adviser's require an SOA for a client and they don't want to write it themselves. Outsourcing can save them money, just find a few to do direct as well as contract work through the various companies.
howdy, did you study through kaplan or tafe?
I did Kaplan, Diploma, then Advanced, now doing Masters through them
Around $300k last year as a FIFO pilot. Quite a lot of overtime though. Base pay around $230k
253 ozbargain earn around 100k. Fark me.
around is very subjective, given mans tendency to exaggerate i wonder how many <80's get rounded up
Retail managers; depends on the company obviously.
As a graduate engineer looking at a pay of around 55k, are there any OzBargainer engineers who are making over 100k?
If so, how long were you working for before hitting that mark?
The biggest payrises happen when you change jobs. Get the most you can out of your current job (maybe 2-3 years) then move around.
The payrises companies give for promoting within are not that high.
ie. it may take you 5 years to get to 80k (55k > 60k > 70k > 75k > 80k)Where as if you had 2-3 years experience, and another company is willing to pay 80k for that experience and skill, jump ship!
Having said that, at the end of the pay it's not always about money… Would you work for a company with a hostile work environment for 100k, or a company with amazing people/culture for 80k?
Leave the country. Seriously. Engineers are extremely underpaid in Australia due to 'skilled' migration (meanwhile labourers are on $100,000pa). Just get the education on HECS and leave. Australia has become a socialist hell hole that's only good for losers on welfare and underachievers.
Yep. The country's values are skewed toward low skilled jobs and sports.
In America, you actually get rewarded for advancing your capabilities.
If you're looking for a engineering job over 100k early on then you need to look into mining or oil and gas.
I am working in a mining company (residential), base salary around $85k, off the graduate program in less than 2 years was on 105k, now i have been there for 5 years am on 120k..FIFO and other mining companies may pay more I beleive.
Mining engineers get paid well, but other roles in mining towns like healthcare jobs, they get paid pretty well too, on par with engineers in a lot of areas
I'm surprised people don't mention shift work more.
So many jobs in state/territory and Commonwealth public sector agencies where you can quite easily earn 100K (APS5 equivalent) doing desk jobs in operational areas. Work 4/5 days and get 4/5 days off. Have your cake and eat it too ;)
100k is between APS6 and EL1.. please let me know which agency/dept is paying 100k for an APS5.. I'd like to apply :)
Unless you're talking about some of the agencies that require night shifts, etc, in which case loading could probably bring an APS5 (around 80-85k tops) to 100k.
I'm talking APS5 on shift. Work Weekends and nights over a rotating roster. Commute to work is shorter and you attend the workplace 40-50 times less than normal workers.
You're looking at 70-75k salary + 25-35k penalties + 15.4% super (another 15k per annum). So you're looking at 95-110k+ super
Basically any office job except receptionist and pa after about 3-5 years.
IT ~$110k
Porn star.
Economic distribution of wealth is quite fair here in Australia
You mean unfair to people with good education and talent whose buying power is diminished because some kid flipping burgers is on $22/hr.
Air Traffic Control. Business Analyst.
$100K pfft… who goes to work for that?
A dumb knuckle dragging Sparky can earn $300+ a year, if you know where to lookI have a friend on $300k a year being a Sparky
His wife is on $147k a year being in charge of a kitchen and room cleaners
In fact, she is currently on $74K for 12 months off, while she has a baby, and still accrues 4 weeks paid annual leave on top of thatAll employed out of Melb and Geelong
LOL could you be any more off the mark?
Less than 600,000 people in Australia earn $156K+ per year.
If you earn $300K per year, you earn more money than 99% of Australians.
http://profile.id.com.au/australia/individual-income
http://www.smh.com.au/business/federal-budget/federal-budget…
What's big deal about 6 digits? Most of the ppl in my office earns 6 digits. Not something to be proud about around here *sigh
Customer Support Engineer - lab instrumentation.
Package 112 k with overtime (not incl. bonus)
It really depends every year. But it is also with car allowance so…I think there is no room to grow in terms of money for my profession unless become team lead or some sort of manager which is a head ache!
Man, I’m about to walk back into mid six figures as a single income (without a partner to help service my upcoming mortgage) and I feel extremely poor right now.
… How much is your mortgage?
$375k
Why is $500K (mid six figures) not enough to service a loan of that size?
@vetopower: even if he means $150k, that is easily enough salary to service a mortgage of that size… even if he has child expenses etc.
@julesio: like I am going to dig through your comments to find out your gender.. You are just side stepping the actual point that you should easily be able to service that mortgage.
You can earn 6 digits in most jobs that are specialist. Exclude various generic roles involving administration - except in the higher level.
How about as a moderator for an australian communitity bargain/deals site?
mods didnt get paid when i did it
This may sound silly but I once knew a garbage collector who worked for council. The dudes who hang off the back and collect the rubbish bags and help empty the bins. He was on $120k
Was he working for the mafia or was he a highly experienced garbologist?
I know it sounds crazy but garbology really is lucrative
If you want a serious answer then software game development but you need good ideas which I have but no I won't tell you but will sell to you for $100,005.00
@Burnertoasty:
Why does doing a post graduate degree in teaching infer that you had a 90+ ENTER score for your undergrad degree? That just simply isn't true.
Not having a go at teachers or anything here either, just strange logic.