Pay subsidies for jobseekers

Pay subsidy can improve your chances of finding a job. This subsidy can be granted to an employer who hires you when you are an unemployed jobseeker.

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Pay subsidy is a subsidy paid to the employer. It allows employers to hire you and support you with developing your skills on the job. Pay-subsidised work helps you gain work experience, develop your professional skills and enter the open labour market.

An employer may be able to get a pay subsidy for hiring you if any of the following apply to you:
- you are between 15 and 24 years old or over 50 years old
- you do not have a general upper secondary degree or vocational upper secondary qualification
- you are entitled to an integration plan
- you have not been gainfully employed in the last six months

A pay subsidy may also be possible if
- you are hired as an apprentice,
- you have diminished work abilities, or
- you are over 60 and have been unemployed for a long time.

Contact Helsinki Employment Services

You can contact Helsinki Employment Services through e-services, by phone and by email.

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Job Market Finland E-services

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PO Box 310, 00099 City of Helsinki

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