An Australian truck driver is sharing her life as a fly-in fly-out (FIFO) worker and has revealed the eye-watering salary she receives for her two week on, two week off job.
Perth travel junkie Ashlea started out at a mine site with no experience.
She said she chose the job as it allowed her to spend half of the year travelling.
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The FIFO truckie explained to her followers on TikTok that she gets paid a cool $110,000 for only six months of work.
Ashlea said that when she started driving mining trucks she earned $36 per hour.
"After about three months, my rate went to $43.50 an hour," the FIFO worker said.
"For my first year as a greenie (a truck driver who is still learning), I would have taken about $94,000 [home] annually."
Sounds pretty sweet, right? Well, it gets even better.
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She has now revealed to her 48,400 social media followers that her pay has gone up.
"My new rate is about $51.50 an hour so that's pretty good," she said.
"And the contracting company I'm with pays you a bonus each month if you stay with them - that's about $2,000."
Ashlea went on to calculate what that would be annually, and excuse us while we pick our jaws up off of the floor.
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"Annually, at my $51.50 rate, that would be about $112,000 per annum," she said.
"My bonuses could be around $10,000. So around $122,000 for my first year."
She added: "I think it is pretty good for working only six months of the year as a truckie."
She isn't the only high-vis worker raking in the big bucks.
Last year an Aussie traffic control worker - known Down Under as 'lollipop ladies' - took to social media to complain about her job, which earns her about $156,000 per year.
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While some might think it's a low-skilled role, it can pay very handsomely and TikTok user Chloe Taouk well and truly proved that.
She claimed to rake in nearly $500 for a lengthy 12 hour shift on the site and a little more than $400 for a 10.5 hour shift.
Chloe explained how sometimes she has to work for up to 14 hours or as little as 15 minutes (which she copped $149 for that short shift).
So please excuse us while we trawl Seek, LinkedIn and Indeed for a lollipop lady gig.
Rachel Lang