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[travelinbri]

I tried going through the site, but none of the posts seemed to directly answer my questions, excuse me if these are repetitive:

What is a fair monthly pay in Taiwan (in NT)? Realistically, for about 25 hours of teaching a week, what is the high end and low end?

Thanks for any and all answers, I will post more questions as I think of them,

-TBri

[kait]

I think the lowest I've heard is 500/hour. Depending on where you are, you can get up to 1200/hr for private tutoring. Where I am, I am lucky to get 600 for tutoring though. I'm sure others will have more information for you.

[travelinbri]

So for a job that has me working 100 hours, 50-60 thousand NT plus housing is decent?

[phil82]

It's difficult to say how much you will earn because obviously it depends.

But salaried positions seem to be around 50-60k a month for about 100 hours teaching.

If you teach part-time you will generally be paid by the hour in which case $600-700ph is probably the norm.

[matchstick_man]

I was salaried last year. I earnt 50,000 a month for 80 hours teaching a month even if it was actually less and then paid hourly for every hour over 80 hours. Now I'm paid hourly. Unlike a lot of people who post onn message boards and advise against a salary I would take a salaried job like that again as right now I have no guaranteed monthly income or hours.

[TaoyuanSteve]

The estimates given are typical of what you can expect. I don't think there is a definitve answer re: salary vs hourly, although I favor the latter because my current situation (an hourly paid job) is a pretty good deal in my estimation. The security of a monthly salary is attractive and allows for easier budget-making. However, an hourly school that provides an ARC also has to provide a minimum number of hours, so there is some degree of income security there as well. I wouldn't dismiss out-of-hand a job offer simply because it paid by salary. I would, however, look very carefully at the expected duties and make sure you're not doing 80k+ worth of work for 55k in pay. But, then again, the same would apply for an hourly paying job.

Surf through some of the job ads here or at tealit.com to get a good look at average pay rates.

Bottom line is (and I think most would agree on this): investigate each job carefully. A job that pays 50nt an hour more is not necessarily the best deal.

[travelinbri]

Thanks for all the great advice!

[travelinbri]

Thanks for all the great advice!

[logician]

[Aristotle]

Salaried positions usually pay significantly less than ones paid by hour .
There usually are few if any benefits to speak of and you are in a much weaker position to refuse extra work in a salaried position.
Hourly pay starts at about 500 to 600 and hour for the uninitiated.