Fuel, energy and food are more expensive than ever. If it is now a question of increasing the income, it makes sense, for example, to take on a part-time job. But how much money can you earn with it and where does a lot of money come from? FOCUS Online provides the answers.
Basically, nobody in Germany can live from a mini-job alone. For some, low-wage employment is still worthwhile.
Mini-jobbers may earn a maximum of 450 euros per month or 5400 euros per year. With a statutory minimum wage of currently 9.82 euros, this works out to just under 46 hours a month. On October 1st, the upper limit will be raised to 520 euros per month or 6240 euros per year. Because the minimum wage should then also rise to 12 euros, those affected could work around 43 hours.
Monthly earnings are tax and social security-free up to this limit.
“As a mini-jobber, I work gross for net,” explains Peter Konieczny, team leader at the mini-job center in Essen. “I am exempt from social insurance and only have to pay contributions to the statutory pension insurance.”
However, mini-jobbers can also apply in writing to be exempted from compulsory pension insurance.
However, the following also applies: If you have several mini-jobs in addition to a main job that is subject to compulsory insurance, only the first one is completely tax-free.
waiter
Job seekers currently have good opportunities in gastronomy. Ideally, service staff can earn up to 13 euros an hour. If the business is going well, an additional tip of around 6 to 9 euros per hour often jumps out.
Experience is not required. As a rule, all you have to bring with you is friendliness and flexibility.
The job is considered particularly strenuous. As a rule, service staff are needed for the weekend or on weekdays in the evenings. Service staff sometimes have to stay in the store long after closing time to tidy up and clean up.
Not only restaurants are looking for helping hands. Theaters, cinemas or nightclubs also need service staff for the box office, cloakroom or bar.
Corona-Testcentren
The employment contracts are only limited to a few months. Ideally, however, you can earn up to 18 euros an hour in a test center. If you also work on Sunday, there is a corresponding supplement.
The test center takes care of the registration, the swab, the evaluation and the issuance of a certificate.
stage setup
Concert organizers and event agencies are currently also looking for so-called stagers. As an employee, you help with the set-up and dismantling of a concert or an event. As a rule, you can earn up to 16 euros an hour because the stage dismantling often takes place at night or on Sundays.
deliveries
Parcels, letters, blood samples, supermarket purchases, drinks, food or even corona tests often have to be transported from A to B. Companies are looking for employees for exactly these services. As a rule, you can earn between 13 euros and 18 euros an hour.
In addition to the salary, there is a fuel fee if you deliver the goods with your own vehicle. Those who deliver pizza and supermarket purchases usually also receive a tip. Bicycle courier companies don’t pay any fuel money, but they do pay a commission if the goods are delivered to the recipient quickly.
Tutoring
Many parents are increasingly looking for cheap tutors for their offspring. This part-time job can be particularly worthwhile for students. Depending on the subject, level of difficulty and demand, you can earn up to 50 euros an hour at best.
In addition to a lot of patience, interested parties must also be very familiar with the subject matter.
There are several ways to find a side job. The Employment Agency can help. The authority offers various offers of help and its own job offer only with mini-jobs.
Online job exchanges and mini job platforms such as Jobware, Stepstone, Indeed, Xing, LinkedIn and Randstad also offer numerous job offers on a mini job basis.
It is better to send an unsolicited application directly. Employees are currently desperately needed in the catering trade, in bakeries and in supermarkets.
In the case of civil servants, the case is clear: you have to have a part-time job approved. Employees in the public sector, on the other hand, only have to report this to their employer.
In the private sector, the employment contract or collective agreement is decisive. As a rule, there are obligations to report or even to approve part-time jobs.
And!
However, the employer can only object to secondary employment if he can present legitimate business interests. This is the case, for example, if you want to work for a competitor. Or if the contractual obligations are jeopardized – for example through night shifts in a part-time job when you have to be back in the office in the morning.
Mini-jobbers who take on additional marginal employment must also report this if they exceed the marginal employment threshold. In such cases, the employer can prohibit the part-time job, labor lawyers explain.
Anyone who accepts him anyway risks a warning or even dismissal.
According to Markowski, however, anyone who has a photovoltaic system on the roof and sells part of the electricity generated or sells hobby embroidery on the Internet does not have to report it.
