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Prof.Gringo · Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 10:35 pm Post subject:

Save $500USD a month in Mexico?

Possible? Maybe. Would you want or really be able to? Probably not.

The pay range for an English teacher varies widely, I've seen $4,000 to $20,000 pesos per month in Mexico City alone. In most places and jobs the upper end of the scale is much lower. How do you want to live? Most foreign teachers want to at least live a decent life. Unless you stay home, live in a cheap place, and make beans and tortillas a major part of your diet, saving anything over $200, at the most $300USD is very difficult. Latin America does not tend to pay well for TEFL work. Asia and the Middle East are the places to be for high pay.

GueroPaz · Joined: 07 Sep 2007 Posts: 216 Location: Thailand or Mexico

Some places in Asia, such as Thailand, pay lousy wages for TEFL teachers, so do not go there expecting to save US200 per month.

Generally, TEFL is not very lucrative. Or, it is arduous, as in Korea.

I could save US$500 of my TEFL income in Mexico, if I were living off my pension. Very Happy

Oreen Scott · Joined: 11 Jan 2008 Posts: 179 Location: Oaxaca, Mexico

My idea is to live off my TEFL income and to save my pension. Then spend my pension in Europe where I won't be able to work.

Ah. . .the advantages of being a senior citizen.

MO39 · Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 3:42 pm Post subject:

Snowmeow · Joined: 03 Oct 2005 Posts: 24

It's not actually an ESL position. It's teaching at an international high school in Mexico. I didn't want to mention the job, I was just trying to discover how difficult it'd be to pay student loans. The pay is about 24,000 pesos a month. Aside from making loan payments I will be trying to live a modest life.

Once again I apologize for allowing the perception to persist that I'd be teaching English. I just wanted information on cost of living from people with experience in Mexico.

dixie · Joined: 23 Apr 2006 Posts: 644 Location: D.F