The teaching experience of just one person 1 Year, 5 Months ago
Hi,
I posted this elsewhere and I think it belongs here too.
Some one once posted the actual price of an item for sale here on this site. I'm glad, because it saved be a boo-boo. He/She (don't recall) called it leveling the playing field. I thought I'd be the Samaritan and do the same here.
I exaggerate not when I say that I have looked at thousands of ESL jobs on the Internet and posted my vita on several sites. I get about 3 offers a day: No, I'm not bragging, the situation is more like there are 7,000 plus English teacher jobs that go unfilled each year. That is a conservative guess.
Public universities usually pay in the 4,000 to 8,000 range depending on experience, the quality of the school and the applicants degree level. The general expectation is 12-18 50 minute class room hours (some are 45 minutes). Often, the person hiring cannot fiddle with the paycheck at a public school, but they can with the hours worked and they can also compact them into two consecutive days so you have a 5 day week end to travel. This is what I had this year, 5,000/mo tax free and two days of work.
Teaching business courses should pay between 10,000 and 15,000 a month. I know one fellow who got 25,000, but that is rare.
Private schools commonly *demand* 25 hours and just a little more pay. Often they do not provide a proper Foreign Experts Visa (a Z visa),but rather bring people in under a shadow business license. I personally would not work for a private school, maybe Canadian excepted from that rule....maybe.
Teaching little children pays well, but I can't stand it so I've not looked into it much There is quite a bit of that out there, it appears that the Chinese folks understand that little children can pick up a language quickly without much study if they have a role model. We discovered this to be true in California where many dual working parents had a Mexican day house/children sitter. The kids picked up fluent Spanish without even trying.
Housing: This can vary widely and if you ask for pictures to be sent, they will be just like the pictures of the school on the Internet---taken when everything was brand new. I have free furnished housing, two bedroom, bath, small kitchen, western plumbing, about 1200 square feet; it is big for a place in China. It was top of the line 25 years ago when new and still isn't too bad, but shows the wear. I also have free utilities, Internet, TV w/cable. Oh, and a maid comes in once a week, cleans and puts on clean sheets. This is on campus housing with only steps to my classes. Very secure too. A housing allowance offered by any kind of school is rarely enough to get decent housing--period.
Once final word, I would not work inland China for US100,000 a year. The air is so thick with industrial coal smoke that I can spoon it into a jar. Coastal only for me and the smaller the town, the better.
As to the sales pitch for the glories of working in China--all true in my opinion, my wife and I think the people are nice and the students are wonderful; we are coming back and looking very hard at retirement here.
I am available by PM if you need some web links for a job.
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