Part-time jobs in Malta.

Tourism is the engine. Malta receives several times its population in visitors each year, and the hotels, restaurants, bars, beach clubs and tour operators that serve them staff up with part-time and seasonal workers: front office, food and beverage, kitchen, housekeeping, lifeguards, events crew and drivers. The resort belt from St Julian's through St Paul's Bay and Buġibba to Mellieħa, the Valletta and Sliema restaurant scenes, and the Gozo hotels all hire this way.

Retail is the second pool: fashion and electronics shops on Republic Street in Valletta, the Sliema seafront and the Bay Street and Tigné Point centres take on weekend and evening sales assistants, with peaks before Christmas and in the summer sales. Supermarket chains hire part-time cashiers and shelf staff year-round.

Office-based part-time work is rarer but growing: customer support and chat agents for iGaming operators and outsourcers (evening and weekend shifts, often for speakers of German, Italian, Nordic languages or Dutch), reception and administration, bookkeeping, tutoring and English-language teaching in the island's many language schools, which run a long summer season of their own.

The national minimum wage applies to part-time workers pro rata: €221.78 per week for a full-time week in 2025, so an hourly rate of roughly €5.50 is the legal floor, and most hospitality and retail employers pay €6 to €9 an hour plus tips or commission. Multilingual support agents, tutors and skilled roles earn more.

Part-time employees have the same statutory rights as full-timers in proportion to the hours worked: paid annual leave, public holidays, sick leave, the government bonus and weekly allowance, and protection against unfair dismissal. A written contract or a signed statement of conditions is required, and your employer registers you with Jobsplus and pays social security contributions on your behalf.

Tax is the part people miss. If you have a full-time job, are a student or a pensioner, income from qualifying part-time employment is taxed at a flat 10% on the first €10,000 a year, withheld by the employer and not added to your main income. Part-time income above that, or part-time work that is your only job, is taxed on the normal progressive scale. The salary calculator on this site shows the net figure for either case.

Students from the EU and EEA can take part-time work without restriction. Students from outside the EU who hold a Maltese study permit can work up to 20 hours a week once they have completed the first 90 days of their course; the employer applies for the employment licence and the job must not interfere with the course. Universities and the larger language schools often have job boards for exactly these roles.

Seasonal workers from outside the EU in hospitality now also need the hospitality Skills Pass introduced in 2024, which covers basic service, food safety and English skills, before a permit is issued. EU citizens do not need it. For anyone else from outside the EU, part-time work on its own rarely qualifies for a work permit: the single permit is tied to a full-time job, so part-time roles are usually filled by people who already hold residence through another route.

To find a role quickly: filter the list on this page by location and arrangement, check the employer's rating of hours in the listing, and apply early in the spring for summer positions. Hotels and restaurants fill their seasonal rosters from March, and the best weekend retail shifts go before the Christmas rush.