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bailemos
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 Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 1:36 am Post subject: Japanese teachers` salary ?? |
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| Just wondering what sort of salary Japanese teachers - junior or senior high school (if it is different to primary etc.) would make ? I`ve heard teachers are considered to be well-paid in Japan, - is this true ! ? |
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Jon Taylor
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The Japanese teachers that have just started at my senior high school are paid 420,000 per month. They are teaching approx 12 hours per week.
This is the salary for the new staff.......all of them just out of University.
This is well under the national average wage though as i say, it's only for the newly qualified staff.
They're making comfortably more than the foreign staff and teaching far less hours. |
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canuck
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| Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 3:20 am Post subject: |
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| Jon Taylor wrote: |
The Japanese teachers that have just started at my senior high school are paid 420,000 per month. They are teaching approx 12 hours per week.
This is the salary for the new staff.......all of them just out of University.
This is well under the national average wage though as i say, it's only for the newly qualified staff.
They're making comfortably more than the foreign staff and teaching far less hours. |
I don't think this is the norm. I don't think this is true. New graduates often start around 180,000 to 230,000+ yen a month, plus a bonus, with increments around 10,000 yen every year. They often get more money, depending on the clubs they coach or other duties/responsibilities they have. |
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Jon Taylor
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| Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 3:36 am Post subject: |
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| canuck wrote: |
| I don't think this is true. |
Yes Canuck, it is true.
I attended the meeting when all pay scales were issued. |
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sidjameson
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| Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 3:40 am Post subject: |
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I second that. I worked in a national JHS and I was amazed at how low the salary was. It took a few years to reach even 3 million a year.
Im at a university now. I know the pay scale is higher than schools, but even here a teacher would need a few years experience before he was earning that money.
Many people here seem to like to feel that somehow the gaijin teacher is getting ripped off by comparison to his J counterpart, but I really dont believe that to be true. |
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furiousmilksheikali
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Location: In a coffee shop, splitting a 30,000 yen tab with Sekiguchi.
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| Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 3:53 am Post subject: |
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| Of course the pay may differ depending on whether the school is a private or public one. |
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japanman
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| Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 4:52 am Post subject: |
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| Jon Taylor wrote: |
They're making comfortably more than the foreign staff and teaching far less hours. |
They may be teaching less hours but the burden of responsibility is huge. They also have clubs, meetings etc to do. It's not just a case of going in, teaching and then leaving like foreign English teavhers do. This is a huge difference. |
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shuize
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| Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 5:13 am Post subject: |
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| Jon Taylor wrote: |
The Japanese teachers that have just started at my senior high school are paid 420,000 per month. They are teaching approx 12 hours per week.
This is the salary for the new staff.......all of them just out of University.
This is well under the national average wage though as i say, it's only for the newly qualified staff.
They're making comfortably more than the foreign staff and teaching far less hours. |
I also doubt these numbers. They certainly are not the norm for newly hired university graduates here. |
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taikibansei
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| Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 5:17 am Post subject: |
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| Jon Taylor wrote: |
| The Japanese teachers that have just started at my senior high school are paid 420,000 per month. They are teaching approx 12 hours per week. |
 Wow...this is double the average starting salary at public high schools in this country.
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| This is well under the national average wage though as i say, it's only for the newly qualified staff. |
The national average for entry-level high school teachers is 203,621.
http://www.poor-papa.com/starting_salary.htm
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| They're making comfortably more than the foreign staff and teaching far less hours. |
Glad that's cleared up.... 
By the way, the average monthly salary for high school teachers is actually much higher: 528,964. This is because salaries increase each year you're employed, with the pace of these increases picking up in your 40s. And don't forget bonuses, pension, and other benefits! |
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canuck
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