Job offer requirements
To qualify under the Employer Job Offer: International Student stream, you must have a job offer in Ontario from an employer that meets the following requirements.
Please refer to section 4 of Ontario Regulation 422/17 and the Employer Guide for more details on each requirement.
Important: In order for your application to be approved, the job offer must be effective the date that you are nominated by the OINP, if you are already working for the employer in the approved employment position; or if you are not, on the date you obtain a work permit and begin working in the approved employment position.
This means that your employer must adhere to the terms and conditions in the job offer and begin paying you the approved wage once you are nominated and begin working.
Full-time and permanent
The job offer must be for a full-time and permanent position.
Full-time means the job must be a minimum of 1,560 hours a year and a minimum of 30 hours of paid work per week.
Permanent means the job must have no end date (also known as an indeterminate duration). Job offers that are seasonal and/or contract based are ineligible.
Note– The job offer will not qualify if it affects the employment of a person involved in a labour dispute.
Eligible occupation
The job offered must be in a skilled occupation at TEER Category 0, 1, 2 or 3 of the National Occupation Classification (NOC).
Low wage level
The pay of the job offered must meet or be higher than the low wage level, for that occupation, in the specific region of Ontario where you will be working. To find the low wage, go to the Job Bank website. Enter the occupation title and NOC code of the job offer into the occupation search. Then enter the location where you will be working into the filter search. Refer to the low wage level listed on the chart.
If you are already working in the position, the wage of the job offer must be equal to or greater than the wage level that the employer currently pays you in that position, in addition to meeting or exceeding the low wage level.
If the wage of the employment region where the applicant will work or report to work is not available on the wage report, the Ontario wage should be used.
These wage requirements do not apply if you have a collective agreement (a written contract between the employer and a union) in your workplace that determines your wages.
If you are paid an annual salary, your hourly wage can be calculated as follows:
- deduct any bonuses or other discretionary benefits from the annual salary
- divide the remaining amount by the number of weeks of work per year (this will
generally be 52 weeks) - divide this amount by the number of hours of work per week
- the remaining amount is the hourly wage
The program does not consider remuneration by piece work, bonuses, commissions, vacation pay or non-financial compensation as comprising part of your hourly base wage.
Position is urgently necessary to employer’s business
The position offered must be urgently necessary to your employer’s business. This means that the job offer must align with your employer’s existing business activities and the position must be urgently needed to maintain or grow ongoing business activity.
Work based in Ontario
The work you do while in the position of the job offer must occur primarily in Ontario. You or any member of your family may only hold or have held equity in your employer’s business, either directly or indirectly if the equity is/was less than 10% and only if it was obtained as part of the remuneration package as an employee. The combined total amount of equity held by you, or any of your family members, must be less than 10%.
