Canada is one of the best study destinations for students who want to do further studies. With studies students also prefer to do a part-time job to support themselves and the Canadian government give the right to each and every international student to do the job along with their studies.
Working Hours
For those who are pursuing bachelors or diploma in Canada, they have 20 hours/week to do a job and for masters and postgraduates, the working hours are 40 hours/week. In vacations, both bachelors and Masters students have full time working rights.
Salary
Now it comes to salary, both bachelors and Masters students have the same salary if they are working unless any of them are working in any company or doing some professional job. Minimum wage per hour in Canada is 8 CAD per hour and the maximum you can expect is 14 CAD per hour depending on the type of job and location.
In metro cities like Toronto, one can expect 12 to 14 CAD/hour wherein small cities you can expect 8 to 12 CAD/hour. No worries you can earn a minimum of 8 CAD/hour. if someone is doing professional job in any company then they can expect 16 CAD to even 25 CAD/hour, later we will talk about types of jobs available in Canada for international students.
Types of Jobs
Jobs related cleaning, waiter, cashier, packaging in factory etc are available for students offering 8 CAD to 14 CAD/hour. Professional jobs like junior software engineer, assistant manager, receptionist, web developer, graphics designer etc offer 16 to 25CAD/hour to students in starting and it could increase as the passage of time and your experience.
But jobs and salary are not limited to here you can even earn far more than this. Those who have an international driving licence can work in Uber or similar taxi services and can make easily 20 to even 45 CAD per hour! Truck drivers are paid very high and nowadays there is high demand in Canada of truck drivers so there are potential jobs opportunities in truck driving in Canada. Truck drivers in Canada makeover 100,000 CAD/year! more about jobs we will discuss in some another article.
So earning in Canada all depends on your skillset and abilities. It is welcoming students like never before and now it depends on you that how you use this opportunity.
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