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Sheikh Inal Ovar · Joined: 04 Dec 2005 Posts: 1208 Location: Melo Drama School

Most workers, well most white collar workers, get some sort of gratuity at the end of their service for each year worked ... one of the standard amounts is one month's salary for each year worked ...

Salaries quoted by employers, e.g. 12,000 Dh per month, will not include this ... it's extra ..

globalnomad2 · Joined: 23 Jul 2005 Posts: 562

sidjameson: Where do you work?? Send me an application!! Eight million seems far better than what most people are getting in Japan today. Aren't most university lecturers getting about 5 million if they're lucky? If i could find a job in Japan for 8 million, I'd go in a heartbeat.

comenius · Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 2:37 pm Post subject:

Ah, OK, thanks. So by gratuity it's a sort of end of contract bonus. That makes sense. Smile

Here I was thinking that after every lesson the students would put some bills in the jar at the front of the class! Laughing

MELEE · Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 6:35 pm Post subject:

Salaries in Mexico have gone up, but at the same rate as inflation. Ten years ago 6,000 (pesos) a month take home was great, now it's about 12,000. Other costs have just about doubled as well. So pay is essentially the same.
What has changed in the Mexican market is there are more good jobs as more and more universities make English a requirement for graduation and try to attract students by showing off native speaking instructors. Ten years ago the state of Oaxaca had about 10 native English speakers working in its state universities, now it has over 50. I suspect there are also more language school jobs, but I haven't kept my eye on that too closely.

John Hall · Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 6:49 pm Post subject:

Pretty well the same thing is happening in Costa Rica as MELEE has described for Mexico (although on a smaller scale, of course).

mondrian · Posted: Wed May 02, 2007 11:21 pm Post subject:

Well I have taught in Asia for 13 years now.
I can assure you that salaries in Japan, Korea and China have not gone up much during the past FIVE years, if at all, particularly in the "State" teaching sector.
Education here is a business and the owners of the businesses are getter richer and fatter - not the employees whether local or foreign.
It is the law of supply and demand.