By working while studying in Canada, you get a great job experience
especially if you have plans of applying for PR (permanent residence)
ultimately.
You
have the permission of working for 20 hours/week of a paid
job. However this is the maximum number of hours, and you are free to work for
lesser number of hours. Usually those students enrolled for difficult or
intensive courses are recommended by the universities to work for a maximum of
12 hours a week. This is because working for more than this number can affect a
student's performance in studies. So you can reduce the number of the working
hours if you feel you are unable to maintain a work-study-life balance.
Monetary Pay
Usually,
for part-time jobs, students are paid by hours. The rate of pay is around $10 an hour, on
average. If your aim is only to gain work experience, like helping your
professor with research work, then you don’t need a work permit. This kind of
work has to be on-campus and will be paid less; you can work beyond the
stipulated number of hours. So with just the student visa, you can still engage
in academic work on-campus.
If an international
student wishes to work off-campus, he can do apply for an off-campus work
permit after completing six months of study. That permit will allow the student
to work for a maximum of 20 hours/week off-campus.
Nevertheless, it can be very
hard to commit to a job while studying. Even part-time jobs can be hard to
attend during a week full of exams. For this reason, we will give you now a
list of the best high-paying part-time jobs for college students in Canada.
Check the list below:
1- TRANSLATOR: The pay
ranges vary between $14/hr on the low end to $55/hr on the high end. It is
important to notice that for doing this kind of job is necessary to master
language and writing skills.
2- CONTENT EDITOR: A good
freelance editor can earn about $40-$60 an hour. But very often, the money will
come per project basis.
3- NIGHT AUDITOR: For this
kind of part-time job, you just need some math skills, computing skills, and
basic accounting knowledge. And you can make up to $29 an hour.
4- WRITER: It pays up to $55 an hour.
5- TUTOR: The hourly wage for a private tutor varies a lot, but it normally goes
between $30-$60 an hour
6- SOCIAL MEDIA ASSISTANT: This can be a good part-time or a freelance job for you. It involves
updating Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snap chat and other sites for companies.
The payment can be a fixed amount per month or per hour. In this second case,
the minimum would be up to $21 an hour.
