The Most Rewarding Part-Time Jobs For Seniors In 2025
While you may be nearing retirement or are already retired, there's no reason you shouldn't bolster your pension with a little extra income. Of course, you're more than entitled to spend your golden years relaxing and traveling, but if you want to or need to make some extra cash, here are some of the best part-time jobs for seniors to consider in 2025.
Pet/House Sitting
If you want to explore a new community or are okay with leaving your own home for extended periods, consider pet or house sitting. While you'll need to find a low-maintenance pet that's suitable for your needs, pet and house sitting is a great way to make money.
You can either post online that you're looking to take care of people's pets or simply ask around. You can make between $30 and $50 per day doing this.
Dog Walking
If you love being active—and love dogs—you could offer a dog-walking service in your community. Depending on your client base and physical capabilities, you could do this all day, or just offer a service as necessary. You could make about $40 per hour walking other people's dogs.
Delivery Driver
If you find yourself less busy during the late afternoon or early evening, consider becoming a delivery driver.
You could either work for a company like SkipTheDishes, or offer your services to a local restaurant or grocery store. Earnings vary, but can be as high as $36,000 per year.
Customer Service Representative
Being a customer service representative will require good listening and communication skills and a very reliable internet connection or home phone. Customer service representatives can work for a variety of organizations and companies—so find one that suits you best. Part-time CSRs make an average of $18,000 per year.
Virtual Personal Assistant
If you have a keen eye for detail, and like to help others be organized, then being a virtual personal assistant might be the perfect role for you.
Virtual personal assistants can often set their own hours and work from anywhere. On average, part-time VPAs make $20,000 per year.
Handyperson
If you like keeping active and have always been fairly handy, whether that's painting or swinging a hammer, you could find casual work as a handyperson for your local neighborhood. Sometimes, other seniors may need help doing tasks around the home. Part-time handypersons can earn an average of $22,000 per year.
Umpire Or Referee
If you're in great physical shape and love sport, then you could look into being a referee in your local sports league of choice.
You'll need to be certified and pass a background and police check, but you could earn an average of $25,000 per year (or less), depending on your chosen sport.
Content Writing
If you've always had a creative side and loved to write in your younger years, consider looking for part-time work as a content writer. Offering a flexible schedule and work-from-home opportunities, part-time content writers can make an average of $22,000 per year.
Antiques Reseller
While you can do this offline, if you've got the tech skills to take your reselling business online, you could reach a far wider audience.
If you've acquired a decent knowledge about the value of antiques, you may be looking at a lucrative career. Income varies, but you could net a small fortune if you're able to source genuine antique items.
Baker
Whether you love to make cookies or bread, everyone loves freshly-baked goods. You can either work for a bakery in your locale or sell your goods at a weekend farmer's market or just out of your home.
Income varies significantly, but it's a great way to meet new people and make some extra money while doing so.
Proofreader
If you've got a keen eye for detail, being a part-time proofreader might be your perfect retirement job! Another position that allows you to set your own hours and work from home, proofreaders can either offer their services as freelancers, or work for a publishing company directly.
Part-time proofreaders can make an average of $23,000 per year.
Working Retail
If you like people and enjoy the hustle and bustle of a store, consider a position working in retail. Whether you used to work retail as a younger person or not, part-time retail work can be rewarding. You'll also earn an extra $10,000 or more per year.
Bookkeeper
If you're a math whiz and were perhaps an accountant in a previous life, consider doing some part-time bookkeeping.
You can do the work from home on a small scale and communicate exclusively via email with your clients. Given that you'll be busiest during tax season, bookkeeping can be a great way to bring in some extra cash, with earnings of about $24,000 per year.
Home-Based Market Research
Another excellent position for those with great communication skills, you could begin a new career as a market researcher. These are the people on the other end of the phone asking for your opinions on a variety of surveys.
Market research is critical to a company's marketing direction. You could earn as much as $30,000 per year.
Online Course Creator
If you're a tech-savvy person, you could create online courses that teach individuals new skills or how to use a particular piece of equipment, product, or technology. Online course creators need to have a clearly defined skill, plenty of patience, and top-notch tech skills. Once created, though, your online course could be an excellent revenue stream of passive income, as you only need to create the course once.
Crafter/Artist
Whether your passion is painting, crochet, knitting, needlework, felting, beading, or glasswork, arts and crafts are not only a great way to pass the time, but could also make you some money.
While income varies significantly, even selling a few pieces a month in-person at markets or online could net you anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars per month.
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Administrative Assistant
If you have a gift of communication and have an excellent aptitude for computers, then being an administrative assistant may be the perfect part-time position for you. Administrative assistants can earn an extra $40,000 per year for part-time work.
Home Care Assistant
If you know a senior who could use some assistance doing their day-to-day activities, or would simply like to get out and about for a walk, or help with their groceries or other errands, consider becoming a part-time home-care assistant.
You could do this informally for about $30 an hour.
Nursery Daycare Worker
Nurseries and daycares are crying out for workers—and if you have experience with children, or love looking after your own grandchildren, then there are many opportunities to become a part-time daycare worker. Assuming you don't wear yourself out, you could earn around $12,000 per year on a part-time basis.
Seamstress/Tailor
If you've been given the gift of the ability to sew, then your skills could be in high demand by a generation that's lost the art of sewing.
From hemming pants to sewing on extra buttons and fixing or replacing zippers, seamstresses and tailors are the perfect low-stress, slow-paced career for retirees. You can earn an average of between $18,000 and $20,000 per year.
Bartender
If you're good with people and can mix a drink, then there are plenty of casual bartending positions open in your area. Bartenders rely heavily on tips, but part-time salaries can be as much as $20,000 per year.
Gardener
For those who love to get outside and enjoy the sunshine, a part-time career as a gardener or groundskeeper may be the perfect position.
Hired either by private individuals, corporations, or retail stores with a gardening section, you could earn about $15,000 per year.
Housekeeper
Here's a perfect opportunity to meet new people and help them keep their house in order. Housekeepers can often keep flexible hours and may be tipped by their clients. You can either work as a contractor for a single client, or spread your clientele out (depending on how busy you are).
You can make an average of $30,000 per year.
Photographer
If you've been keeping up with the technology as cameras have changed throughout the years, you could make a decent part-time living as a portrait photographer for a local school, or if sports are your thing, consider shooting sport events. Or, if you'd rather get out into nature, try taking some landscape shots, printing them, and selling those on the side.
You could make about $22,000 per year as a part-time photographer.
Private Tutor
If you have a post-secondary degree and an in-depth understanding of a particular subject, consider becoming a private tutor. Whatever your specialty, there's likely someone who'll want to learn it! Private tutors can make about $25,000 on a part-time, ad-hoc basis.
Voice Acting
If you've always been told you have a great movie or TV voice, why not give it a try?
Voice acting can be a great way to keep your brain engaged, with the possibility of working on well-paying, large-scale projects. If you can convey emotion, read a script well, and offer excellent pronunciation, voice acting could be a great part-time earner. Voice actors can earn as much as $35,000 per year.
Tour Guide
If you've lived in your local area for many decades and feel like you know the place like the back of your hand, why not work for the tourist board as a tour guide?
Offering a reasonably light schedule and the ability to get out and about on your own, tour guides are experts at conveying information and an encyclopedia of local knowledge. Tour guides can earn $37 per hour.
School Bus Driver
If having the summer off and only working two short shifts per day sounds like something you'd enjoy, consider becoming a school bus driver. You could earn an average of $30,000 per year.
Landlord
If you own more than one property, or are considering renting out your existing home (or one or two rooms within it), you could make a huge amount in relatively passive income. On average, landlords can make between $44,000 and $100,000 per year. Of course, there's upkeep involved and you'll have to ensure you thoroughly vet your potential tenants, but it's an excellent way to make passive income.
Dental Hygienist
Becoming a dental hygienist will require that you seek continuing education if you don't already have an associate's degree, but if you do, you'll just need to become licensed in order to practice. Part-time hygienists can earn an average of $65,000 per year.
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Nanny
If you prefer to work outside of the system of daycare, then consider becoming a nanny for private families. While nannying for small children can be a huge challenge (and you'll have to ensure it's right for you), it often pays well, with a salary of about $25/hour.
Office Clerks
If you're adept at many office-type tasks, then becoming an office clerk may be right up your alley.
You'll often find a position that can be flexible and you could work as little as you want to, filling in here and there when necessary. Office clerk pay can vary, but it could be a rewarding career that you can do for just a few hours a week.
Crossing Guard
Another position with summers off, but working closely within the school system to help keep the kids safe is that of a crossing guard.
With a surprisingly high earning potential of $34,000 per year, crossing guards can make a decent living and then enjoy a relaxing summer.
Food Service Worker
Food service workers can find work in educational or medical sectors, serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner to children or patients in schools or hospitals. With casual hours available and a low-stress, low-maintenance position, food service workers could earn between $10,000 and $16,000 per year.
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Car Rentals Through Turo
If you're adept with the internet and/or a cellphone, and you don't have much use for your car—but don't want to sell it—consider renting it out using Turo. It's an online application that lets you rent out your vehicle to visitors or tourists who need a ride for anywhere from one day to a week or more.
On average, you'll earn about $24,000 per year.
Election Worker
While you won't always be gainfully employed, the low-time commitment nature of election work can be an attractive option. Maintaining the integrity of democracy is an important job and you could be helping to do just that. Poll workers can make between $75 and $200 per day.
Adjunct Professor
If you're very well-educated in a particular subject, and have either a Master's or PhD, you could find very well-paying work as a part-time adjunct professor at a local college or university. With a staggering salary of nearly $80,000, adjunct professors are one of the most rewarding part-time positions in education.
Are you a senior considering a part-time position?
Or will you soon be approaching retirement and are looking to keep busy? Let us know which of these jobs appeals to you in the comments below.
