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inotu-unotme
Joined: 26 May 2013
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 Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2013 6:57 pm Post subject: $ money $ you make teaching ESL... |
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Theres been much talk about what people get paid in Mexico.
But, some of the information is older and or does not apply to every job.
For ESL teachers in the classroom...
1. Do you work full time or part time?
2. Are your hours regular?
3. Do you work at a language company, private (elementary, secondary, high school or university)?
4. Are you in a large metro area?
5. What do you find the average rate of pay to be where your located.
I myself am in a somewhat large metro area.
However, the rate of pay is notoriously low, very low.
Regardless if teachers work full or part time they seldom make over $7.00 usd per hour.
Most teachers start off making $5.00 per hour at a private elementary or secondary school.
Theres good people I know that have been teaching forever that don't make over $6.00 usd per hour.
ESL teachers can make more at a university and sometimes - but - only sometimes a language school. |
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aummua
Joined: 02 Jun 2009
Posts: 77
Location: Arizona
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| Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2013 7:00 pm Post subject: Re: $ money $ you make teaching ESL... |
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| inotu-unotme wrote: |
Theres been much talk about what people get paid in Mexico.
But, some of the information is older and or does not apply to every job.
For ESL teachers in the classroom...
1. Do you work full time or part time?
2. Are your hours regular?
3. Do you work at a language company, private (elementary, secondary, high school or university)?
4. Are you in a large metro area?
5. What do you find the average rate of pay to be where your located.
I myself am in a somewhat large metro area.
However, the rate of pay is notoriously low, very low.
Regardless if teachers work full or part time they seldom make over $7.00 usd per hour.
Most teachers start off making $5.00 per hour at a private elementary or secondary school.
Theres good people I know that have been teaching forever that don't make over $6.00 usd per hour.
ESL teachers can make more at a university and sometimes - but - only sometimes a language school. |
So do you just really love Mexico? |
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MotherF
Joined: 07 Jun 2010
Posts: 1450
Location: 17�48'N 97�46'W
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| Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2013 8:38 pm Post subject: |
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1. Do you work full time or part time?
Full-time.
2. Are your hours regular?
Yup.
3. Do you work at a language company, private (elementary, secondary, high school or university)?
University.
4. Are you in a large metro area?
Nope.
5. What do you find the average rate of pay to be where your located.
There is really only one employer where I'm located. Take home is about 12,000 a month, Cost of living is low, 2000 a month will rent you a really nice place. |
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philipjmorgan42
Joined: 08 Feb 2013
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| Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2013 3:37 am Post subject: |
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1. Part time
2. Yes
3. Private language school
4. No
5. $4-5 an hour |
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philipjmorgan42
Joined: 08 Feb 2013
Posts: 30
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| Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2013 3:37 am Post subject: |
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1. Part time
2. Yes
3. Private language school
4. No
5. $4-5 an hour |
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BadBeagleBad
Joined: 23 Aug 2010
Posts: 1186
Location: 24.18105,-103.25185
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| MotherF wrote: |
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Cost of living is low, 2000 a month will rent you a really nice place. |
I think this is the key. If you are in an area where the cost of living is low, $6 an hour might have the buying power of $15 US, so in a sense you are comparing apples and oranges.
When I lived in Mexico City I was the teacher coordinator for a business institute and made 220 pesos per hour, worked about 20 or 22 hours a week so earned around$18,000 pesos a month. Before that I worked as a teacher for the same institute, started at 150 pesos an hour, got a couple of raises and was earning 180 a hour before being promoted. You do have to do a bit of running around to work 20 hours, in my case I was lucky in that I only worked at one place and had three classes back to back, two small groups and then a private, so was in one place for 4.5 hours three days a week, and then the other two days I had two classes back to back. That doesn't always, or even often, happen. Before that I was travelling more and worked for a mixture of private students and small classes, but rarely worked fewer than 15 hours a week. I worked for a year at a private neighborhood school and made 10,000 pesos a month, plus all the benefits required by law. I worked for Interlengua on two different occasions, the first time (20 years ago, it was my first ESL job) I made more (taking into consideration the cost of living) than the second time (about 6 years ago). Starting pay is low, but if you are in Mexico long term, and are good, you can work your way up. I know three people who are still there from the first round, one is a branch manager, one writes materials and the other works in teacher training. None of them are rich, but they all make in the $20,000 peso per month range. In the small town where I live now $12,000 pesos is a good salary, even for a family, rent is even lower than were Mother F lives, you can rent something adequate for $700 pesos, and something nice, on some land for $1000 or $1200 pesos (we rent a three bedroom house on a huge plot for $1000). Food is cheap, even eating out, 50% or less for what you would pay in the US for a comparable meal, groceries are about the same, with the exception of meat and chicken. Fruits and veggies are 75% less if you get what is in season. A taxi will take you anywhere in town for 20 pesos, or to the next town over for 40 pesos. I would say the buying power of my salary is easily 3 times what it would be in the US, averaging out everything. Even in Mexico City, depending on whether you are buying domestic or imported stuff your buying power is anywhere from double to quadruple (in the case of public transportation, in seasons fruits and veggies), so unless you are converting pesos to dollars it is not really a useful comparison. |
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inotu-unotme
Joined: 26 May 2013
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| Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2013 6:49 pm Post subject: Re: $ money $ you make teaching ESL... |
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| aummua wrote: |
| inotu-unotme wrote: |
Theres been much talk about what people get paid in Mexico.
But, some of the information is older and or does not apply to every job.
For ESL teachers in the classroom...
1. Do you work full time or part time?
2. Are your hours regular?
3. Do you work at a language company, private (elementary, secondary, high school or university)?
4. Are you in a large metro area?
5. What do you find the average rate of pay to be where your located.
I myself am in a somewhat large metro area.
However, the rate of pay is notoriously low, very low.
Regardless if teachers work full or part time they seldom make over $7.00 usd per hour.
Most teachers start off making $5.00 per hour at a private elementary or secondary school.
Theres good people I know that have been teaching forever that don't make over $6.00 usd per hour.
ESL teachers can make more at a university and sometimes - but - only sometimes a language school. |
So do you just really love Mexico? |
Well, like already stated it all depends on where you live and the price of living.
Where I live people on average in 'most' jobs make about $5.00 usd per day.
So, teachers make quite well compared to that.
But, I have to say I have heard from many that where I live is about the lowest paying in all of Mexico.
However, it is a popular place to live and there never seems to be a shortage of teachers or people willing to accept the pay. |
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