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[ghost]

Folks:

Amity (part of Aeon corporation) offers a salary of 285.000 yen per month, and the housing costs are around 42.000 for a single studio apartment near the school. Health insurance costs 30.000 per month, deducted straight from the salary.

There are schools throughout Japan, but some of us are wondering how a salary of 285.000 yen ranks in Japan compared with some of the other schools?

At Amity the working load is 40 hours a week at the school, with a maximum of 25 'teaching contact hours.' The rest of the time is spent in lesson planning, and other related work to the school, including contact with parents and meetings.


Thanks for any feedback.

ghost

[Glenski]

The biggest advantage of working for AEON is the rent. You are going to find it very difficult to get anything for 42,000 yen/month, and whatever you find will usually be totally unfurnished, leaving a most difficult task entirely up to you.

That salary is pretty darned good nowadays, when the standard has been 250,000 yen/month for over a decade and a half, and when we have seen salaries offered in the past 2 years between 170,000 and 220,000 (and steadily going down). That 285,000 is on the very high range for eikaiwas.

As for the work hours, teaching 25 hours per week is pretty standard. I gladly accepted being paid for the full 40-hour week for 2 reasons:
1) It's a normal work week in my home country.
2) It gave me (a newbie at the time) a chance to learn how to prepare lesson plans from scratch. I had no format handed to me on a platter. You might at AEON, but that just gives you more time to study it and iron out some wrinkles and to so other productive things.

[markle]

The kicker there is the health insurance. They pay 285K but take out 30K for health insurance leaving you with around 250K anyway. 30k seems a bit steep given that I pay a little under 20k with a dependant (and in the first year of NHI I was paying around 8K). If it is for NHI then it is a rort, if its for another insurance cover then its not so good.

[gaijinalways]

The insurance deduction seems awful high for beginning your stay in Japan. It took me a while to pass the 30k mark for insurance costs, but now I also make a sight more than 285k a month and with higher insurance deductions .

[Chris_Travel_the_world]

I'll also add that 25 hours is the teaching hours. Chances are between preparation, self study selling, meetings with parents, meetings at your office, homework, etc.. you'll be working 40 or more hours easy, especially in the beginning. Good luck.