Government of Canada student jobs are available for 2025 and pay up to $37 an hour

You can get hired through the Federal Student Work Experience Program this year.

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If you're a student looking for work in 2025, the federal government is planning to hire throughout this year.

Government of Canada student jobs are available through the Federal Student Work Experience Program (FSWEP).

The FSWEP offers full-time and part-time jobs to high school and post-secondary students in administration, finance, IT, communications, and more across Canada.

With the FSWEP, you apply to an inventory that's open year-round and accessible by more than 200 federal government departments and agencies.

So, you could get selected for a job at any time during the year!

You are eligible to apply for the FSWEP if:

  • you are a full-time high school, CEGEP, college or university student
  • you are returning to full-time studies in the next academic year
  • you meet the minimum age requirement in the province/territory of work
If you're in your final year of academic study and don't intend to return to full-time studies, you are eligible to work part-time until you graduate.

While job applications are accepted all year for general FSWEP positions, there are a few specific summer 2025 jobs that you can apply for too. That includes:

These are the FSWEP rates of pay:

  • high school students — $17.36 an hour
  • college/CEGEP students — $17.36 to $23.03 an hour
  • university undergraduate students — $18.42 to $25.87 an hour
  • university master's students — $24.62 to $30.99 an hour
  • university doctorate students — $28.99 to $37.53 an hour

If the provincial or territorial minimum wage is higher than the maximum offered for your academic level, you'll earn the provincial or territorial minimum wage rate.

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    Lisa Belmonte (she/her) is a Senior Writer with Narcity Media. After graduating with a Bachelor of Journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), she joined the Narcity team. Lisa covers news and notices from across the country from a Canada-wide perspective. Her early coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic earned Narcity its first-ever national journalism award nomination.

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