Part Time Jobs

Part Time jobs:
Work in restaurants as a waiter or waitresses, as cleaners.
Drive taxi
Work as a security guard
Work as console operator in 7-11 or service stations
Work in a call centre
Work as a sales person
Work in cafes, bakery or other shops.

International students have 20 hours work limit.
One cannot work for more than 20 hours a week, if the work is legally paid for on the book. Most places accept students and pay them $10 to $13 an hour under the table, what I try to say is that international students usually get paid - Cash in Hand as its called out here. That means they are not enrolled as a staff member for that place. In doing so, this helps the employee to pay u a rate lower than what they should be paying. Eg they would pay u $10 while they should actually be paying u $15 or more. Many people do this, since this is manner of making more money and most employees know that international students are ready to anything and compromise on any price since they are desperate to get a job.

So if you are working for an employee that gives you cash in hand, u can work more than 20 hours.

Also when you get 3 months summer vacation you are allowed to work unlimited hours.
This is normally the time when most students try to work as hard as they can and recover as much as they can for university fees, etc.

Australian wages in 2007 have increased 3.4 percent compared with the same time last year.

Full-time adult earnings in Australia are now A$55,661 a year.

Overtime and bonuses bring the average Australian pay to A$58,027 per annum.

The average full-time male wage in Australia is A$1,199 per week, while women average A$968 per week.

Australia's best-paid workers are those in the mining industry, where ordinary earnings average A$89,950 a year.

Next in the wages pecking order are finance and insurance workers who average A$71,300 per annum.

Manufacturing sector employees earn an average of $52,570 per annum and construction sector workers earn $53,000 per annum.

Full-time workers in the accommodation, restaurant and cafe sector earn A$43,660 on average.

The lowest wages are found in the retail sector, where full-time workers earn just A$42,700 on average.

Workers in the Capital Territory (Canberra) are Australia's highest paid workers with an average of A$67,175 per annum, followed by New South Wales on A$58,050.

Tasmania has the lowest average full-time wage of A$52,870 per annum.

Data provided by the Australian Bureau of Statistics - First Quarter 2007.