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How ATU Students Are Earning €15+/hr With Vano Between Lectures
Quick answer: ATU students earn €15.30 an hour (net, above Ireland's minimum wage) doing short jobs near campus — dog walks, cleaning, moving help — picked up whenever they have a gap between lectures, with payment secured before they start.
ATU — Atlantic Technological University — sits right in the middle of Vano's home turf in Galway, which makes its students some of our most active helpers. The pitch is simple: real money, earned around your timetable, on jobs a short walk or cycle from campus.
The number that matters: €15.30/hr net
Most student jobs quote you a gross hourly rate and let the reality sink in later. We do it the other way around. On every time-based job — cleaning, garden work, moving help, online tutoring — the price is set so that after our platform cut, you take home €15.30 an hour. That's above Ireland's 2026 minimum wage of €14.15, and it's a rule we built into the pricing on purpose.
Job-based tasks (a bag of laundry, a bin run, a quick errand) are priced for the task rather than the hour, but the same principle holds: the rate has to be worth your time or students simply won't accept it.
How a typical week looks
There's no rota. You open the app when you've got a gap, see what's nearby, and take what fits:
- A 30-minute dog walk before your 11am lecture.
- An hour of cleaning in Salthill on a free Wednesday afternoon.
- Helping someone shift furniture on Saturday morning for an hour or two.
String a few of those together across a week and it adds up — without committing to fixed shifts you'll resent during exams.
You're never out of pocket
Two things make this student-friendly. First, pay-after-accept: the customer only pays once you've accepted the job, so the money's secured before you show up. Second, Vano Pay holds that payment safely and releases your earnings through Stripe once the job's marked done. No invoices, no awkward "can you transfer me later?" conversations.
It's the only work I've found that actually bends around my timetable instead of the other way round.
What you'll need
You'll verify your identity once (we're an ID-verified platform — it's what keeps customers trusting the students they let into their homes), connect a payout account, and you're live. Full steps are in how to become a Vano helper.
Wondering why now is a good time to start? Read Galway's student cost-of-living squeeze.