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Steve Smith
Joined: 06 Jul 2004 Posts: 26
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Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 8:41 pm Post subject: The Highest Salary in Poland |
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Hi again,
I'm considering getting back into TEFL after a 5-year hiatus. I have 3 years' teaching experience, 2 of them in Poland, I have a Cert TEFL and a Cambridge DTEFLA, and one year's DOS experience.
I have acquired a family in the meantime and my expenses are much greater, so what is the highest salary going for someone with my experience and qualifications?
And are there any jobs going?! |
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Alex Shulgin
Joined: 20 Jul 2003 Posts: 553
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Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2005 10:56 am Post subject: |
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Freelance work at the British council pays 100PLN per hour. But with only three years experience followed by a five year break you'd be very lucky to get work with them. If you can get your own contracts direct with companies then you can charge 80PLN per 45 minutes without any problem. Private lessons are about 90PLN to 100PLN per hour but aren't too reliable. Language schools would pay you about 50PLN to 60PLN per 45 minutes. Plan your timetable well, mix high paying privates with reliable school work and teach about 34 classes (45 minutes each) and you could pull in 7,000PLN to 8,000PLN a month. Much less in the summer tho'. |
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Grrrmachine
Joined: 27 Jul 2005 Posts: 265 Location: Warsaw, Poland
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Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 11:19 am Post subject: Are you serious? |
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Im sure that if I expected to charge around 100PLN for a 60min lesson I would get laughed out of the office.
I suppose it's possible to push 7000PLN a month if you're prepared to do the 8am lessons AND the 9pm lessons with a lunch hour somewhere in between...
Or maybe Im just undercutting the competition! |
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patrykt
Joined: 18 Aug 2004 Posts: 51
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Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 12:57 am Post subject: |
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Alex are you teaching in Warsaw? How many 100 zl/hr lessons can you score a week? 7,000 a month is mathematically possible at 50 zl/hr if you teach 36 hours a week, but who wants to do it? I'm supporting a family of three in Poznan on my 25 hours and we are fine, although we own our place and pay almost no czynsz. I agree that you should combine a stable, well-paid job with privates, but never rely on privates, they're too flakey. |
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gregoryfromcali
Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Posts: 1207 Location: People's Republic of Shanghai
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Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 11:48 am Post subject: |
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Hi,
I saw your post about living in Krakow and wanted to ask you some questions, I hope I'm not being too forward.
I visited Krakow for the first time ever this January and completely fell in love. We only stayed there for 6 days, but I almost used an entire memory card full of pictures! I had a lot of fun freezing and feeding old rolls to the swans on the Vistula. I didn't get a chance to visit the mountains and I stayed in a little apartment off of Karmelika on Batorego. |
Hello Tanya,
No worries, I often help people with questions about Poland. When I first came out here I wasn't aware of these types of boards and I had to figure everything out for myself which was very stressful.
I too lived of Karmelika. In fact I taught at Bell near Batorego.
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I live in St. Louis, MO and am an undergrad at SIUE. My major is German and my minors are Linguistics and TESL. I will have teacher certification in both German and TESL. |
So for the questions-
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How long have you lived there? (what do you like/dislike?) |
This one is tough of course it takes time to adjust to any culture but after two years I'd say the winters and the difficulty of trying to learn the language. I'd hoped that after two years I would have been able to carry on a conversation in Polish but I can't. I actually find Chinese much easier to learn that Polish as I am currently teaching in China.
The other thing is that in the long run it is difficult to save anything substantial in Poland. But I wouldn't take back my two years there for the world, afterall if I hadn't lived in Poland I wouldn't have met my finance.
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Where exactly do you teach at (what school? any other schools you recommend? do you teach older or younger students? is it easy to teach older students or is the job market mostly for kids?)?
How is the rent? (cost of rent, groceries, travel, etc) When I was there I think we divided everything by 4 to figure out the dollar amount (ex. Breakfast was usually 8 zl so it was $2) |
Rent is about 700 to 1000zl without roommates.
As far as the cost of living that's difficult to assess I mean afterall a lot of young people in Poland get by on less than 1000zl a month. But as a foreigner it's usually easy to spend about 3000zl to 3500zl a month, which is a pretty good lifestyle. That's a few nights out a week and with no worries about groceries.
Of course if you go to expensive restuarants your money can disappear quickly. But the longer you're here the more you know where to go to save money.
I recommend Bell and Stairway. Of course it is kind of tough to recommend schools in general though. As the higher the school's academic standards are the more qualifications they'll want and the more they'll expect from the teachers. Where as a lot of schools let the teachers do what they want and don't bother them yet they may be late with your pay.
In Poland it is mostly university students you'll be teaching. Business English and childrens' classes are also available.
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How is the pay and what kind of Certification do you have/recommend? (are you barely getting by or do you have enough for savings? did you do the CELTA program or something else?)
Thank you for all of your help!
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The CELTA. As far as savings you'll make enough to get by and perhaps save a $100 or $200 a month.
Hope this helps
Gregory |
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Brooks
Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 1369 Location: Sagamihara
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Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 12:13 pm Post subject: |
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I knew a woman who had a temporary gig a Volvo which paid 150 zl per hour.
Company work is the way to go, if you are fortunate.
I got 100 zl an hour from a couple private students. You really have to hustle for that coin. One of them was a secretary at Playboy in Warsaw. |
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