A fly-in-fly-out employee has offered a glimpse of what it’s really like working at the mines.
British backpacker Lisa Bailey is utility worker so she juggles a number of areas, including housekeeping, kitchen and dining, and cleaning, at a remote mining town in Western Australia.
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As she’s a FIFO worker earning $34 per hour, she gets all flights, meals and accommodation for free.
“It’s definitely the best for saving money as a backpacker in Australia,” Bailey said in her TikTok video.
“It’s an unskilled job. If you have a trade, it would be much more money.”
FIFO utility employee Lisa Bailey has offered a glimpse of what it’s really like working at the mines.
Credit: Lisa Bailey/TikTok
When she wakes up before her shift, she always drinks water to help rehydrate her body.
Then she hops into her tasks, which include laundry, folding sheets, tidying up the dining hall, housekeeping and carrying out pre-arrival checks of rooms to ensure they are clean for FIFO employees.
In one of her videos, she revealed she made a whopping $4046, after tax, from just two weeks of work at the mine site.
However, she noted she was on a casual rate so her shifts are inconsistent every week.
“I’m a casual worker so I don’t get paid for my time off,” she said.
“But it works well for me being casual.”
She juggles a number of areas, including housekeeping, kitchen and dining and cleaning at a remote mining town in Western Australia.
Credit: Lisa Bailey/TikTok
With no experience, she managed to get a FIFO job