With NDIS I hear disability support workers can earn a base rate (not including penalties) over $40 per hour and same as people holding Slow/Stop signs. Is this true and are there other jobs that pay over $40 hour that don't require hard to attain qualifications or relocating away from the CIty?
Good Pay (Base over $40/Hr) Jobs That Don't Require Relocation or Difficult to Attain Qualifications
thechemist on 30/03/2021 - 19:45
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@Jimothy Wongingtons: You do understand that you run that same risk everyday walking anywhere near a road? You have cherry picked one article from 5 years ago.
@Tleyx: Standing on a road where you are watching/monitoring traffic as opposed to walking down the stress or crossing the road with headphones in or on your phone?
Once you consider all factors it doesn’t sound that bad
@Hirolol: That's because you aren't crossing the road correctly If you do the job watching your phone it's the high risk as well. But for hours a day
@Tleyx: Standing AND breathing statically on roads is indeed a health risk.
Besides weather exposure is air quality and NOISE, permanent and constant.
@brendanm: I know a guy that is the manager for setting up the crews that do that stuff in QLD. He says people do get hit more regularly than you think and the the amount of close calls are high.
You know how much more they earn?
Sorry? I'm saying they earn much less than $40 base, they only get decent money if doing a heap of hours overtime.
A lot of traffic management people (stop-go signs) get paid for travel time to and from the site, paid breaks, loading for anything outside of normal Mon-Fri 7-5 hours, then overtime on top of that. They probably do average close to $40/hour, if not more.
Source: Dad does it every now and again for some pocket money/boredom relief in retirement and most full-time weeks he clears $2k+ after tax (and he's probably the lowest paid in the whole crew).
@bmxr: I agree they earn great money with all the extras but that isn't their base rate. It's the same as train drivers and flight attendants - the base rate isn't wonderful, it is all the loadings, OT, etc that turn them into $150k/yr jobs
@alex123711: They were when I was with QF between 1989-2007. You needed to be senior so that you got priority on the shift bidding system. It also involved being away from home for a few weeks.
I believe their base rate is less than half that so it would have been troubling times for many of them in the past 12 months.
When you do long haul international you get daily meal allowances, daily away from home allowance, shift allowances, overtime rates that seem to never end once you do the first double shift, etc, etc.
@brad1-8tsi: Wow, is that inflation adjusted? I thought flight attendants were usually on around 50-70k, maybe it depends a lot on the airline/ domestic vs international?
I thought flight attendants were usually on around 50-70k,
And what makes you think that?
@alex123711: They are. Their EBAs are readily available for anyone that actually wants to look at them.
@alex123711: They are not earning $150k if they do it's a very very small percentage on very legacy contracts or being on board managers.
Fairwork has all the info. FAAA agreements.
-Qantas cabin crew australia
-Qantas Airlines Limited
-National Jetsystems B717 aircraft
-Sunstate Airlines Dash8 aircraft
But work 5hours a week $200 gross income a week… not sure how many hours OP is expecting.
that's correct the people holding $40 signs are not what it all appears to be
Yeah they are. Traffic Controller is considered a CW2 under any CFMMEU Agreement in QLD, 2019 Rates were $43.60 P/HR Plus extras. https://www.fwc.gov.au/documents/documents/agreements/fwa/ae…
$40 an hour is about the median full time income, so literally half of working people earn that or higher.
Do you have any qualifications so far, or experience that could help point in a direction for a job for you?Pretty sure median full time is about $36 from memory.
Edit - just checked and I was wrong, latest figures are about $38.50.
In America that hourly salary would be someone with a masters Degree because their minimum hourly rate is US7.35
which is quite strange they keep churning out likes of Gates, Bezos, zuckerberg ,Spiegel etc all making more than your prime minister multiply by 10 eachThey churn out billionaires because some people figure out capitalism and how to overwork employees on minimum wage.
In Australia that's also for someone with a masters degree, but uneducated, low skilled, manual labour gets the same or more.
Do you have any qualifications so far, or experience that could help point in a direction for a job for you?
Have a guess? :)
We all know that would be a no!
Maybe….a chemist? I heard there are a lot of people leaving the profession
If so, they would be qualified for laboratory work that could fairly easily earn this kind of pay. Casual pharmacist jobs look like they pay over $40/hr.
@mskeggs: I've heard the opposite. Not much money in pharmacy. Hence why they're leaving.
Not sure about lab work, but definitely not in pharm
Not much money in pharmacy. Hence why they're leaving.
Basically this….
A chemist filling scripts is basically just a fancy storeman, matching up the right boxes to the 'order' aka script.
You need a pharmacy degree to be a pharmacist don't you?
Yeah Walter White style
qualifications is very subjective, I have met PhD in Biomedical Science from well known Australian University sitting alongside people making 85 to 90 k and doing the same thing , managed by someone with no Bachelor at all or at best just a bachelor.
I earn close to that ($36ph) marking exams online in the evening (WFH). Boring as anything but a fairly decent add on to my FT job.
In terms of quals… I work in the field which I mark for - I already have the qualifications and experience.
Where do I sign up
Do you teach/work in education? Any higher ed, VET, ELICOS, TAFE, or primary/high school experience? There's plenty of online invigilation or marking work out there.
Did you accidentally use your password as your username?
@dust: May be he is switching between username and password. One had to guess the user name to be the password.
Have you got any links or suggestions on how to get involved with this?
I currently work in the education sector and have a Commerce degree so would be very interested in this!
@PTG Benny: Search on Seek/Indeed for Marking jobs. I just did it and there are a fair few listed - depending on your field..
I am suprised it is that low, I used to get $40 an hour marking uni exams and papers over 20 years ago. At the time I thought that was freaking awesome and help pay bills through my post graduate degree and first year in workforce.
I agree, uni work paid quite well.
Story time…
Back in 1993 during my honours year in computer science, they gave us part time work - three kinds.
Sitting in a small room (well, almost a cupboard) waiting for a student to come up and ask a question - almost never happened - $17/hr
Sitting in a lab room with a bunch of computers helping students with their current assignment (they all did a weekly assignment) - $38/hr
Sitting in a tutorial with the main tutor helping with the tutorial - $51/hr
As part of the tutorial work, we also got paid to mark exams - I can't remember the rate. I think they notionally said it would take two hours and paid you that at the tutorial rate, so $102 for marking a batch of assignments (that we were paid $38/hr to help with).Interestingly, this was one of the jobs that had superannuation lying around that I found when consolidating my super a few years back.
So let me get this straight, now unis charge more and pay less to their staff? Considering inflation the pay drop becomes even more apparent.
And yet people say "nah mate uni is not there for profit" screw that this has profit written all over it!
I agree. I wouldn't do this a FT job but as a side gig, it's OK.
Prostitution
"don't require hard to attain qualifications" :P
Well, if you aren't born with the talent….
It's not the talent that you need to be born with ; )
How "hard" are we talking?
There's typically one qualification you need …
You need a Stop/slow sign for that job
Worth reading every page - it gets better and better, trust me.
It's not all about the money - you could be paid twice as much as that, but if you hate or get too bored of the role, how long are you going to last?
20 years so far…
I'm guessing you can't be hating it that much if you've lasted 20 years…😆
or the pay is just…
@HappyXD: If I am doing a job I hate, then I better be getting paid enough to retire in 5 years.
Don't waste your life doing things you hate, seriously.
@trapper: I hated my last job and hate this one too. This one pays a lot more so it is harder to leave… I think to myself if I quit I will probably hate my next job too and I'll probably be taking a 20k per annum pay cut.
at $80/hour which is almost $160k/year (assuming you are replying to the OP), I am sure I can put up with some boredom or hate :)
Day trading crypto?
on the downside, you can also lose $40/hour
You won't earn higher than a base rate of $40/hour as a disability support worker unless you are dealing with extremely complex care or are working as a sole trader.
All of which require a substantial mix of training, personal resilience and effort.
Support work can be physically and emotionally demanding. That is if you plan to be at all competent at the work. If you're not competenent - well it's also easy to get in big trouble for stuffing up.
Cost of living where you are located would make more of a difference in your life than the outright pay rate. $30 an hour in a country town would have you far better off than $40 an hour in Sydney for example.
I'm on $39.10 as an insulator on navy frigates. Currently doing 7am-4:30pm.
How does one insulate frigates?
Very carefully?
And if it gets too hard, you stop and say "frigit".
Applied on Seek. No previous related experience.
I was actually curious as to how it's actually done. Is it blow in, 2 part foam, etc?
Is this a permanent position? I see all jobs as Casual/Vacation.
If Jugganautx is “blowing in foam insulation” for a living, it must be a cushty job
I'm on $39.10 as an insulator on navy frigates
What do you do? Just plug cracks with Selley's products all day?
good pay, easy work, good location - pick 2
very true. currently doing first and third in that list - thinking of going to first and second now.
ugh. i find this very very true and from people who have done 10+ year careers in multiple things, this usually is also true.Although covid and WFH is helping with the "good location"..
Graphic designers can make more than that per hour. Just takes hundreds or thousands of hours of experience to demystify all the software used. And if you are employed rather than freelance, dealing with the boredom of doing the same stuff all the time.
I believe graphic designers only get paid in exposure
kaitovan knows what's up
Go out on your own and start freelancing and that is about the minimum you would want to be charging. Marketplace is saturated since COVID though, so you will be competing against all the idiots willing to work for less than minimum wage.
Unless you plan on doing this, because you could charge more.
Why would someone offer this postion to a stranger? Just a family member or a person in his social network takes up it.
If such position goes to the job market, why would someone offer higher than medium wage to a person of low education qualification that almost anyone make it?
Software engineering. All information is available on the internet, and it’s a low barrier to entry. You won’t start at $40/hr but with enough experience (3+ years) you will.
There’s also a massive shortage in the market at the moment.
It will take a lot more time to get the experience without a degree than to do a degree. And I wouldn't call it a low barrier to entry - with no degree you would need a good portfolio of projects and contributions to open source software.
imho you need to have aptitude and passion to do well in software engineering.
The experience builds fast when your work is your hobby.
A degree isn't necessary, and doesn't give you any pass on the experience requirements anyway.
Yes exactly - the kind of people that can have a successful software developer career with no degree are the kind that have been passionate about it for a long time and have some talent as well. The kind that will spend their free time learning stuff and trying new things and hacking stuff for the pure joy of learning and solving problems. And have done so since they first learned to use a computer as a child or teenager. Not people just looking for an easy job who don't care much about it.
Start an OF.. there’s a niche market for everyone
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The people holding stop go signs are not on $40 an hour base. They get overtime, which is where the money is for that.