In order to prevent their wallets from losing weight continuously, it is believed that most international students will find a part-time job to earn some living expenses in their spare time. The policy of working in New Zealand is relatively loose.
So how much can you earn in 2022?
Check it out here.
1. International students are limited to working hours per year in New Zealand, usually 20 hours per week.
If you can earn 10 NZD (New Zealand Dollars) per hour and about 200 RMB per week, your annual income is about 10,000 RMB based on 50 weeks a year.
The tuition fee for high school students is about NZ $12,000, and the living expenses are about NZ $120 per week (including about NZ $80 for rent and about NZ $40 for living expenses).
Total cost (tuition, rent, living expenses) : about $18,000 (based on 50 weeks);
Total income (part-time, 20 hours per week, 50 weeks) : about $10,000;
The difference: 8000 NZD.
New Zealand gives everyone who lives there a tax number.
The employer will ask you for this tax number during the interview so that the payroll tax can be paid to the tax office.
The payroll tax, which is about 19.5 percent of income, is automatically deducted from your income.
So you have to ask whether you will be paid before tax or after tax.
For example, the pre-tax wage is 12 yuan/hour, then the actual wage in your hand after tax is deducted is about 9.66 yuan/hour.
The New Zealand tax Number (IRD Number) is an important part of the New Zealand tax system.
Both individuals in New Zealand and companies operating in New Zealand are required to have a tax number for the purpose of income tax returns or refunds, as long as tax activities such as employment, goods and services transactions are conducted in New Zealand.
In New Zealand, the tax number is just as important as your identity card. If you want to work part-time or full-time in New Zealand, you must apply for a personal tax number.
Note: 1. New Zealand adopts the pre-tax payment system. Before working in New Zealand, you must provide the IRD number to the company you work for.
The company will file taxes at the employee’s salary level before paying the salary, and the salary received is the after-tax amount.
If there is no IRD number, regular companies cannot file tax returns and wages cannot be paid normally.
2. When issuing interest on personal bank deposits, the opening bank will also use the tax number.
The bank will deduct the corresponding interest tax according to your tax level, and then deposit the after-tax amount into a personal account.
It can be said that in New Zealand, any matters related to income, savings, tax, tax refund and so on, without a tax number, it can be said that “it is difficult to do anything”.
International students are required to pay tax through their IRD number on income earned legally from work in New Zealand, whether full or part time.
1, Buy the local newspaper This is very important, when you meet a suitable person immediately call to express interest, ask for an interview.
2, wandering the streets, looking for services related, such as coffee shop, restaurant job if the restaurant needs recruitment, most directly on the door of the “job notice”, so eager to find a job with CV (resume) is very important, you can immediately go to the store to apply.
3, in the website to find a job on the network, it is easy to find a dead end, if you do not get a response, see a phone number, dial directly in the past.
Some of the biggest job search sites are Jobs on SEEK and Trade Me Jobs and the Chinese Forum.
4, Make more friends, expand your network Tell your friends that you are looking for a job, ask them to introduce you, help you pay attention to the job information, someone will introduce you much easier.
5, through the mediation of human intermediary company is very famous as has: Select, West 20, and so on, do not collect any fee, but when you have a job, your salary will be a small part to the human intermediary company (about 1 to 2 hour in nz will into the pockets of human intermediary company), but should pay attention to, looking for legitimate human agency does not suffer.
If students are enrolled in a full-time degree program or at least a two-year certificate program, they are legally entitled to work 20 hours per week, with a maximum of 40 hours per week on holidays.
If a student has scored an IELTS 5 at the time of visa submission, he/she will be able to work 20 hours per week even while studying in the language course. High school students over the age of 16 will be required to obtain a legal work permit and provide their registered IRD Number when applying for a student visa or renewing their visa.
For international students, there are many kinds of part-time jobs available, such as cashier or delivery man in supermarket or convenience store, waiter in restaurant or cafe, dishwasher, barista, unskilled worker in factory, etc.
At the same time, students entering the university can start to look for their own internship with the growth of professional skills, so as to accumulate experience for the future work.
Some companies that offer part-time jobs to international students do not provide legal employment agreements. According to the law of New Zealand, each employee must sign an employment agreement, which includes various legal provisions, clear hourly wage of the employee, the scope of work required and the working hours, etc.
