Looking to quit the rat race? Australia’s surprising towns with six-figure salary jobs and VERY affordable houses that can be paid off in five months
- New South Wales far west and Warrnambool, Victoria have low unemployment
- They are also home to jobs being advertised with generous, six-figure salaries
- A high salary in these areas could see someone pay off their house in months
Australia is home to surprising towns with six-figure salary jobs and very affordable housing.
Property is so affordable someone with a high-paying job could even pay off their home within five months.
From Wilcannia to Warrnambool, jobs with generous packages are being advertised.
Australia is home to surprising towns with six-figure salary jobs and very affordable housing. Property is so affordable someone with a high-paying job could even pay off their home within five months (pictured is a five-bedroom house in Wilcannia, NSW, selling for $320,000. The median price there is $56,529)
In the far west of New South Wales, there’s a $137,000 job being advertised for a project manager.
Central Darling Shire Council is seeking engineering expertise near Wilcannia, where the median house prices is just $56,529, CoreLogic data shows.
With that kind of salary, someone could pay off their house in just five months.
The town of Dareton, near the NSW-Victoria border, has a case work manager position with the Department of Family and Community Services that comes with a $114,000 salary – a level more than double Australia’s median salary of $55,400.
Median house prices in this Murray River area stand at just $179,000, meaning a highly-paid public servant could pay off their home in less than two years.
The far west of NSW also has some of Australia’s lowest unemployment, despite the remoteness.
The jobless level of 3.3 per cent is well below the national average of 5.3 per cent, a CommSec analysis of Australian Bureau of Statistics data showed.
The jobless rate there is identical to that of Sydney’s wealthy North Shore.
Regional Victoria is also home to pockets of lower-than average unemployment.
Warrnambool, on the south-west coast of the state, has a jobless rate of just 2.7 per cent, which is even lower than the 2.9 per cent rate for Sydney’s very wealthy eastern suburbs.
Warrnambool, on the south-west coast of the state, has a jobless rate of just 2.7 per cent, which is even lower than the 2.9 per cent rate for Sydney’s very wealthy eastern suburbs. The median house price there is $357,000 (pictured is a more upmarket house in the beachside city)
The median house price there is $357,000.
A job as general manager of the Warrnambool Football Club is being advertised with a salary of $110,000 – enough to pay off a house near the beach in little more than three years instead of the usual 30 years when it comes to a Sydney or Melbourne mortgage.
Warrnambool, on the western edge of the Great Ocean Road, has Australia’s lowest regional jobless rate.
It is also one of five regional areas in the top 15 list of Australia’s lowest jobless rate areas, along with the NSW far west, the NSW Riverina, Bendigo in western Victoria and the NSW Central West.
Warrnambool (pictured), on the western edge of the Great Ocean Road, has Australia’s lowest regional jobless rate