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Glenski
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Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN
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| womblingfree wrote: |
| The thing is, once you are properly qualified, what's the incentive to go back to Japan when you could make double the salary somewhere else? |
Double what salary? Some university teachers (qualified, right?) make 5 million yen or more per year. That's about US$40-45,000 depending on exchange rate. Are you saying that there are EFL jobs elsewhere for US$80-90,000 (or more)? Please say where and in what capacity? |
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womblingfree
Joined: 04 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 10:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Glenski wrote: |
| Double what salary? Some university teachers (qualified, right?) make 5 million yen or more per year. That's about US$40-45,000 depending on exchange rate. Are you saying that there are EFL jobs elsewhere for US$80-90,000 (or more)? Please say where and in what capacity? |
While private language teaching in Europe is probably roughly the same, if you teach ESOL (or anything else) full time at a state college or high school you will earn between 6 and 7 and a half million yen p/a, more if you have specific skills. Of course this will vary from country to country and district to district, the average is probably around 6 million. My ex-girlfriend was on almost 11 million (�45,000) because she was skilled with special-needs students.
If you are a full time professor with a Phd doing research you are looking at 6 to 9 million, up to whatever you like $$$ depending on lecture tours and other activities. A well established professor in Japan doing research will get a decent salary as well. In fact I hear even ELT classes in Japanese universities pay quite well, but there is a common practice now of outsourcing basic ELT lessons to external companies like Berlitz, although I'm pretty sure this is illegal. Chiba university lecturers threatened to go on strike a few years ago because of it.
All the above jobs are for experienced, qualified professionals only, they are not conversation classes for native speaking CELTA/TEFL holders. To be honest considering the amount of work that goes into administration, getting qualified, doing research, and student care, those salaries are pretty average compared to most professional positions. |
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