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How miserable are Australian university graduates?
The salary is not as good as that of cleaners.
Cleaning toilets earns more.
Current Australian companies.
It is too difficult to recruit people.
#01:
year Salary93000
scan Everyone in the toilet earns more than college students
We all know that due to the lack of labor in Australia, various companies are forced to significantly raise interest rates in order to recruit suitable employees. But this salary increase standard shocked many people.
Look at this news: The starting salary of a cleaner is 93,000 Australian dollars per year.
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There was an old saying before, if you don’t study hard, you will have to clean toilets when you grow up.
As a result, cleaning toilets now earns more than graduating from college...
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Due to the shortage of labor, wages for a series of previously low-paying jobs have soared, which means that a person working 8 hours a day The salary of cleaners is higher than that of engineering and construction graduates. After all, the starting salary of engineering university graduates is only 60,000 Australian dollars.
Housekeeping company general manager Joy Vess said they had raised wages to $45 an hour in the past few weeks because they simply couldn't recruit enough staff on regular wages.
According to the introduction, a cleaner with no work experience, working 5 days a week, 8 hours a day, can earn an annual salary of 93,600 Australian dollars before tax. Even those with no experience can earn such a high income. Needless to say, the income of experienced cleaners is .
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Because the salary is very high, a large number of applicants are full of joy. But even so, the housekeeping industry still cannot recruit enough cleaning staff.
So their company was forced to stop promoting in some areas of Sydney because there simply weren't that many staff available to schedule .
In fact, nine months ago, this housekeeping company had raised the hourly wage of its employees to 35 Australian dollars an hour, but there were very few applicants. It was originally thought to be the impact of the epidemic, but after the lockdown was completely lifted, there were still not many applicants.
Therefore, company was forced to increase the hourly wage to 45 Australian dollars per hour.
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#02:
Enterprises call for extending the working hours of international students,
Deal with the visa backlog problem as soon as possible
The only way to solve the problem is to attract more labor to Australia and extend the working hours of international students.
At the same time, the large backlog of visas should be processed as soon as possible, so that many companies can operate smoothly.
Taking the cleaning industry as an example, if the situation continues not to improve, the hourly wage of a cleaner may reach 60 Australian dollars, and the final annual salary will reach 124,800 Australian dollars.
This part of the pressure will be passed on to businesses and families.
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And there are cleaning company employees whose annual salary exceeds 100,000 .
Employees at window and gutter cleaning company Gutter Boy work five days a week, earning up to $50 an hour, which equates to an annual salary of $104,000.
Meanwhile, a job advertisement for Crystal Car Wash offers a salary of $30 an hour. Their job advertisement states, "No need to call, just show up where you like and start working."
Labor market economist John Mangan said The lack of new immigrants entering the labor market has pushed up wages, while Others are reluctant to take up cleaning jobs due to dignity issues.
Various factors have led to higher and higher salaries for cleaning staff, but this high salary will not last forever.
Everything is only temporary. As long as the problem of labor shortage is solved, the hourly wages of cleaning staff will drop significantly.
Therefore, many industries have jointly appealed to the government to lift immigration occupation restrictions so that Australia can attract more immigrants and supplement the labor force.
Finally
In the final analysis, the problem Australia is currently facing is still the shortage of labor force. To solve it, only the government departments can speed up visa approval, allow more backlogged visas to be approved, and more international students return.
However, as the main body of the Australian study abroad industry, if Chinese students cannot return in large numbers, Australia may still have a labor shortage.
