I landed a $200k salary with zero experience - here's what you need to know about my job

An Aussie has revealed how he found a six-figure mining job and was hired without any prior experience.

The underground miner was approached by job seeker startup GetAhead in Melbourne and told the stunned host that it took just one connection to the industry through his father to land the lucrative role.

'[I] didn't really have any idea I was going to get into underground mining,' he divulged in the short video.

'I just got asked at a barbecue off a mate's dad, who was a foreman in mines.'

Since starting, he's netted himself a $200,000 a year salary, which is more than double the average gross salary for a tradie.

He urged job hunters looking to land themselves in Australia's lucrative earth industry to just be persistent.

'Just keep trying,' he said.

'It's one of those industries where it's not what you know, it's who you know.'

The host asked him how it felt to work metres deep below the earth's surface.

'A lot of people find it pretty out there and daunting, but yeah I suppose [it's] whatever you get used to.'

He said spending time away from home was a necessity to build wealth.

'You do what you've got to do to get ahead in life,' the miner added

The average salary for a tradie last year was $90,940, up 11 per cent from 2019, according to insurance brokerage firm Trade Risk.

'We believe it is the best representation of how much Aussie tradies are really earning, as it uses the taxable incomes provided to us by thousands of self-employed tradies from around Australia,' Trade Risk said in its report.

It found that boilermakers were Australia's highest paid trade workers and take home an average income of $112,535 .

Electricians took out second place with an average salary of $96,338 and plumbers rounded out the top three earning $95,507 annually.

But the report showed the numbers can differ greatly.

Australians need to complete a certification, the 'Standard 11' mandatory safety training course in order to work in the mines.

Onsite accidents are a grave reminder mining is no easy pursuit.

An average of nine miners die at work in Australia each year, the third highest death toll of any industry, according to Safe Work Australia.

A man in his 30s died at the Oaky Creek Coal mine in October in a machinery incident, sparking renewed calls from then- Queensland premier Steven Miles to address the cause of accidents in the industry.

Volatility in the mineral markets also mean mines could close at a moments notice.

Last week, ASX-listed Mineral Resources Limited announced it would cease operations at its Bald Hill lithium mine in Western Australia's Goldfields region 50km south-west of Kambalda.

The mine is looking to reduce staff numbers to just ten to assist in the transition to a 'care and maintenance' shutdown.

In a statement to the ASX, the publicly-traded company said that it needed to stop mining for the lithium-rich mineral spodumene due to the low prices it currently attracts.

MinRes said the move 'will preserve cash and the value of Bald Hill's spodumene orebody for when conditions in the global lithium market improve'.

The mining company hasn't ruled out resuming operations onsite if lithium prices increase.