Jobs in Katherine — hospitality work for backpackers

Last updated: 2026-08-31

Katherine has 58 venues on the get88 list, each with an email address that accepts mail. The biggest venue type is cafés & restaurants at 22.

The dry, May to October, is gorge-tour season, with the Barunga Festival in June and the Show and Rodeo in July. Then the mango harvest takes over — mid-September to late November, with the big farms building on-site seasonal accommodation and wanting three-to-four-month stays. Coco's House on First Street is the budget base in town.

If you are sitting in Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane on a working-holiday visa, refreshing a job board and hearing nothing back, that number is the size of the pool in one regional town. You can write to it from where you are. See how Katherine compares to the rest of Northern Territory.

What kind of venues are in Katherine?

Uncategorised means the venue is on the list and can be written to, but nobody has recorded what kind of venue it is yet.

The Katherine venue table

This is the shape of the table, not the table. Names and email addresses are held back until you have an account, so there is nothing here for a scraper to take.

Showing 25 rows of 58 venues in Katherine. The blurred cells are placeholders, not real records — no venue name or email address is in this page. The names and addresses sit on the full roster, which comes with a paid account.

Before you book the bus

Hospitality, tourism and housekeeping roles only — no farm, construction, mining or fishing work is on the list. How the sending works is on the how it works page, and which postcodes and which work count is in the specified work guide.

Nearby: Alice Springs, Nhulunbuy, Darwin

get88 is a job-application tool, not migration advice. Whether a job in Katherine counts toward your visa is decided by the Department of Home Affairs, and your postcode is what decides it — check the official specified-work pages for the 417 and 462 visas directly.