Part Time Jobs and International Students in F1 Visa

by HSB on March 6, 2009

in F.A.Q's

International students can work in US and earn some money, but how much can they earn? Avinash has heard wrong information

Question

How much does a part time job in the U.S pay? What are the number of hours that a student can work for? Is the earning from a part time job enough to cover either tuition or living expenses?

Part Time Jobs F1 Students

International students can work 20 hours per week. But, that work can be only within the college campus. Recently Avinash wrote a comment  “Students are not supposed to work off campus.. and they need to stay in the campus during their course

Students are not supposed to work of campus?

Avinash you are misinformed for sure. When students hear some information, they just believe everything. But, most of the information when gets passed around, everyone add their own bit of story. So, when Obama passed new H1B rules for companies receiving stimulus bailout money hiring H1B workers difficult, news was passed around many and one student comments – Obama is sending all H1B workers back their home country.

Same thing happened to information that was passed to you. Students are actually allowed to work only within campus. Only under extreme financial hardship they can get permission to work off campus, but they have to go through an approval process. That might affect your OPT period. You will have to get that information from International Office.

Part Time Job – Hourly Pay

Students can work upto 20 hours per week in part time job. Job includes working in Campus library, book store, Cafe, Computer Lab, .. It will pay around $6 to $10 per hour. Sometimes upto $15 per hour. So, part time job will help you pay for living expenses. If you study in schools like USC, New York,.. cost of living will be around $600 to $800 per month. Apartment rent would runt o $1800 per month ( shared by 3 or 4 students)

Part Time Job to Pay Fees?

With part time income, if you study in Texas or other low cost places, you can save maybe $200 per month. So, part time job will not pay for college fees. You will have to find RA or TA to pay for college tuition fees. Sometimes even RA and TA will not pay in-state fees. UNC at Charlotte not all RA position is considered for In state fees.  In University of Alabama at Birmingham, students used to get In-state fees for even part time jobs, but not sure if they still do the same.RA and TA will pay $400 to $1500 per month plus In-State fees.

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{ 9 comments… read them below or add one }

1 oprah June 27, 2010 at 7:58 AM

Hi, Im a 17 years old girl from Spain. I do speak English, French and a little of Portuguese besides Spanish. Ive been working as basketball coach and in other activities with kids. Id like what ever kind of job in the US, even if it is bad-paid…
How can I do it and what I do need?

Thanks

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2 vijay May 18, 2010 at 1:03 AM

@srinivas, your score is low in both quants and verbal. us universites expect atleast 650(minimum) in quants. Re try gre. all the best!

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3 vijay May 18, 2010 at 1:02 AM

@ priya. make sure you get scores above 1150. Your quants score is good. but the verbal is too low. Re try gre and try to score 450 above in verbal. u r good at quants, so make sure you can get above 700 again

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4 Varun Kumar January 13, 2010 at 3:12 AM

Hi Tara, use the loan very wisely. First two months are very costly because no one exactly knows how to save money. After that you learn a lot of things and you start saving money by reducing expenses. Arkansas is good.

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5 siddu January 3, 2010 at 11:51 PM

hai…i want to know about UK MBA ,

can any one tell me good universities,
i dont have any exp, and i got 7.5 band in ielts…i done my btech last year.

i want to know the details about Part Time Jobs, and living cost in UK

plz gide me to study in UK

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6 priya March 24, 2009 at 8:29 AM

hi
i scored 1080(740 Q+340 V) in gre…..i am in 3 yr…can u tell me if i could get into good university with aid….or i should attempt gre again..

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7 SRINIVAS March 19, 2009 at 4:45 AM

Well i have taken GRE test on 17th march 2009 and have scored 820 (330 v + 490 Q).
Now i have to start my application process.
Can you suggest some universities that consider this score for MS in Computer Science. Preferably in CA (LA, San francisco, San Diego)

Thanks and Regards,
Srinivas Shastry

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8 Vandana March 18, 2009 at 12:16 PM

HI,
I have the same question too. It will be great if you could answer this.

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9 Tara March 17, 2009 at 11:03 PM

hi!

I’ve been reading the articles in your blog.Very Informative! I’ve got admit in University of Arkansas.Dint get any aid. Earlier,I was planning to take Bank loan. Now,I’m not able to decide anything. what is your opinion about this university? And,without any personal backup,is it safe to take loans and go there now?

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