You Could Earn Up To $10k This Summer With A Temp Job In Western Australia’s Grain Harvest
Every year, young Aussies are hired to help with Western Australia's grain harvest for eight weeks.
Applications for this year's grain harvest in Western Australia are open.
With every day items like iceberg lettuce costing $12 a pop, most people don’t exactly have money to burn right now.
If you’d like to save up a sizeable sum in just a few weeks, the answer might be signing up for Western Australia’s grain harvest this summer.
Every year, over 1000 young Aussies are paid to go to remote Western Australia to help with the grain harvest which usually starts in October and generally finishes in December or early January. Did we mention you can earn up to $10,000? Well, you can!
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If you sign up, you’ll either be working as a receival point operator storing and sampling grain, or a quality technician sampling and packing grain and identifying grain quality for analysis. You’ll also get paid training and on-site accommodation at their receival sites.
You’ll need a decent level of fitness because it’s tough work and you might be working for 13 days a fortnight (last year’s harvest was the largest on record at more than 21 million tonnes!). The good news is the hourly rate starts at $29 so all those hours pay off very nicely. It’s more lucrative than a part-time café job or – let’s be real – most full-time career jobs.
Other bonuses include the chance to be part of a diverse workforce and see remote areas of Western Australia that are off-the-beaten tourist path. There are positions available as far north as Binnu, down to Albany in the southwest and across to Beaumont, east of Esperance.
Not only is it a great experience for people who want to kick-start a career in agriculture – paid training and experience, bb! – it’s also an opportunity to earn some great money in between school, uni, or other jobs.
Recruitment has started for this year’s harvest which usually kicks off in October and generally finishes in December or early January. All the information you need to apply can be found here.
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Find out more about joining Western Australia’s grain harvest here.
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This article was last updated 29/06/22.
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(Lead image: Paz Arando / Unsplash)