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Ireland to OZ 2018

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  • 07-05-2018 10:08pm
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    seanyboy16
    Registered Users Posts: 4 ✭


    Hi i am a 23 year old steel erector just moved back from Canada .Been working in ireland the last year but seem to be living pay check to pay check .

    Been looking at Australia for work and cannot find much solid info in terms of wages etc .
    Is it possible to work over there in the mines or has that work dried up for now?

    Thanks


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    mandrake04
    Registered Users Posts: 4,435 ✭✭✭mandrake04


    Mining boom is more or less back, after a few poor years it seemed to come back last year.

    Sydney is booming in infrastructure, there's still stage 2 & 3 of the Metro, the western light rail, the second airport, F6 stage 1,2,3 all yet to start. The North Connex, west Connex and the Eastern light railway all yet to be finished first. Plus a few others projects yet to be approved. In all at least 12 years of major infrastructure to be completed.

    You could easily get a year work out on a working holiday visa (+ a second year if you did 3 months farm work on the first) , not sure about steel erectors wages but most skilled trades earn $30-60 ph. Getting into the mines on a WHV not that easy unless you had skills that was really highly demand, also the old abused 457 sponsored visa is dead and buried and replaced by something that is harder to get and more expensive for employers...so not as easy as it was a few years ago.

    They also changed the rules recently, workers on working holiday visas get taxed compared to citizens, PRs and people on skilled visas. Even then your effective tax at the most on say $160K (€100K) is about 30%.



    Australia has its own forum so yo can ask there.

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1121


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