A FIFO worker has revealed she now earns $3,200 a week after tax as she has just received a huge pay rise.
British expat Megan Meeke, 27, used to be a flight attendant before starting work in the Pilbara mines in Western Australia.
She made headlines earlier this month when she took to social media to talk about the impressive income she was making from her job. At the time, he was making $2400.
That number has increased by more than 30% since completing an eight-hour course that gave him more recorded skills to use in workplaces.
Ms Meeke said she gained entry into confined spaces, working at heights and in gas-testing atmospheres, which she said helped her land a job as a sales assistant.
He also posted a video on TikTok earlier this week that showed him celebrating signing a new contract worth $3200 a week.
And he noted that it’s easy to save while working FIFO because everything on site is paid for, including food, drinks and lodging.
However, he was also quick to point out the drawbacks. He sometimes has to work long hours, even up to 77 hours a week, and some commenters on his TikTok page point out that this would mean he only earns the equivalent of $41 an hour.
Ms Meeke also deals with offensive comments from male colleagues.
Her grueling shift pattern sees her work two full weeks straight and up to 14 hours a day, but then has a week off to enjoy a glamorous jetset lifestyle.
This allows for more travel time, and he ventures all over Australia and overseas, even to luxury destinations like the Maldives and Dubai.
“It’s definitely a tiring job, but also an amazing lifestyle if you’re someone who wants to travel the world and make incredible money,” he told Daily Mail Australia.
“FIFO is something I really recommend, especially if you’re young and want to travel, you make amazing money and the lifestyle is great.
“You work hard for two weeks, then you have your week off to go to another country or explore more of Australia, then go back to work, work hard, make a lot of money and travel again.”
Mining jobs are consistently ranked as offering the highest average salary in Australia, but this has led to a level of misinformation among the general public, workers say.
Despite the top spot, SEEK data revealed that the average salary for a person working in the mining industry was $116,000, down 13.96 percent from 2013.