How much do you usually get paid in fruit picking?

by Sida
(Melbourne)

How much can you usually earn from fruit picking in Victoria? One friend said it's about 10 dollars an hour, another friend said its up to 27 dollars an hour if you work fast.

So how much do you usually get paid?
Thankyou!!

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Fruit Picking Pay
by: Birgit

Hi Sida,

That's covered - sort of - on the fruit picking page. (See the paragraph starting "How and what you get paid")

Both your friends are right. If you work on a piece rate you get paid for what you do. The more bins you pick or boxes you pack or vines you prune per hour, the higher the hourly rate works out. The more practice you get, the faster you get, the more you earn.

On your first days it could very well be less than $10 a hour. And it takes a while to get good enough to earn $27 an hour...

If you work for an hourly rate the pay varies, depending on the crop, the area, the amount of workers available, if accommodation is included or not...

But it sure won't be $27! Likely it'll be MUCH closer to $10. Really good money you can only make if you get paid per unit, work very hard and are good at it.