Summer Jobs Service


This Ontario government program can help you find a summer job. The program provides free services to improve your job-search and self-marketing skills. It also provides a $2/hour wage support for jobs with businesses and farms, as well as with not-for-profit and other community organizations.

Who can participate?

Summer Jobs Service is available if you are:

  • 15 to 24 years old (up to 29 for a person with a disability);
  • planning to return to school in the fall.

Businesses and community organizations can apply to receive the wage support.

What's offered?

The program offers the following:

  • free training on how to develop job-search and self-marketing skills to help you land and keep a job;
  • a $2/hour wage support for businesses and farms, as well as not-for-profit and other community organizations to hire you;
  • jobs that can last up to 16 weeks beginning in April and ending by September 30.

Call the toll-free Employment Ontario Hotline at 1-800-387-5656 for the name of the organization delivering the Summer Jobs Service in your area.

Employers in northern Ontario can also contact the Ministry of Northern Development and Mines.

Employers in rural areas can also contact the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs.