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[canb]

I have a bachelor's degree in music education with teaching experience, including China experience. I am searching for jobs in Kunming. I realize Kunming is in great demand and I cannot expect a whole lot of options. However, on anesl.com there are two jobs -one at a public university and the other at a private university. The public one is only offering 3000RM plus on-campus housing (would this be a dorm?) and 2500RMB for travel. It doesn't say anything about airfare reimbursement. The private university seems like lesser of a deal and I've heard fewer good things about private unis. 3000 isn't much, even for Kunming. Does anyone have any thoughts?

[Steppenwolf]

Airfare reimbursement is a legal requirement for your employer! They should not be allowed to wiggle out of this obligation! 3000 goes a long way in Kunming.

[no_exit]

3000-4000 a month is standard for universities in Kunming. If you want more, you should look at private language schools or at other cities. The universities have very little need to offer higher salaries, and so they don't.

My very first semester in China I made just *under* 3000 a month working at one of Kunming's better universities. They're salaries have gone up a tiny bit in the last few years, but not much. Of course, at a university you'll rarely work over 16 hours a week and sometimes you'll luck out and only have 12 hours a week for a whole semester! The private language schools here are pretty much standard 16-20 hours a week (usually 20 if no office hours are required, or 16 with office hours a couple times a week). If you go with a private language school you can make anywhere from 4500-6000 a month.

Keep in mind that schools in Kunming do the vast majority of their hiring locally. The higher paying schools generally won't advertise for teachers on the net because there's no need to. Taking a job at a university can, if nothing else, be a way to get started and make some contacts before moving on to a higher paying school.

The usual -- airfare reimbursement of some kind, housing, etc. should be provided by any school, no matter where you're looking.

[Steppenwolf]

[TravellingAround]

Yunnan is a pretty bad place to go if the money is a big factor in your decision. It's a poor region of China and there are loads of foreigners which presumably help keep wages down. Kunming is nice enough though with a Carrefour and hostels to stay at.

By Chinese "standards" the pollution is barely noticeable.

[eslstudies]

[TravellingAround]

[eslstudies]

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None of which answers the question.[/b]