Subclass 417 and 462: full rights, six months per employer.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Hours per week | No cap |
| Industries | Any |
| One employer | Generally six months at most |
| Second or third visa | Through specified work, mostly regional |
The six-month-per-employer limit has exceptions for some industries, locations and circumstances, and the list changes. Check the current exceptions on the Home Affairs site before you plan around one. Casual and seasonal work fits this visa well, and the Christmas casual season runs on exactly the roles backpackers pick up.
| Live ads | Right now |
|---|---|
| Across our engine | 28,124 |
| State citizens only | 653 |
| Require full existing work rights | 666 |
| Say nothing about work rights | 26,805 |
Fewer than 5% of live ads state a work-rights requirement at all. Silence in an ad is not a yes and not a no. It means the employer has not said.
A working holiday visa carries full work rights within its conditions. Ads that state citizens only are the ones to skip; the six-month rule is yours to track, not the ad's.
Counted 23 Aug 2026. Signals are read from the ad text by our engine.
Make a free account, set your work-rights status once, and point the radar at your suburb. It remembers your answer.
Start freeJob counts come from our own engine, which reads employer hiring systems across Australia daily. Counted 23 Aug 2026. The visa rules on this page were last checked 23 August 2026 against immi.homeaffairs.gov.au. Visa conditions change; your own conditions are listed on VEVO.
This page is general information, not migration or legal advice.