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eliahaydon · Joined: 03 Mar 2007 Posts: 2

I got an offer of 30000 SR a month to teach English at KSU. I need to speak with anyone who is working there at present. Do you like working at KSU? Does the offer seem right to you? how much does rent cost? how are the working hours? how is the working environment? How many months of paid vacation do you get a year? if you have children, how much does school cost? Thank you. and you can send me to my email address at [email protected] and please write KSU in the subject area.

Grendal · Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2010 2:10 pm Post subject:

$8000.00 US per month. Roughly 30000 SAR. If this is right then you have higher credentials than most of us. If I'm not mistaken then you are being hired on as a prof. or assistant prof. $100000.00 to $110000.00 US per anum is base for profs. but you may not have some required experience or degree is in a different field.

Grendal

eliahaydon · Joined: 03 Mar 2007 Posts: 2

I have a Master of Education plus 14 years teaching experience. So they are paying that much at KSU? because it seems a lot of money, not that I am complaining but I am only worried that it might be a scam to get me there. Do you work at KSU?Thanks for replying.

Cleopatra · Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2010 8:19 pm Post subject:

30000SR? Are you sure?

I have an MA in Applied Linguistics and several years' teaching experience in Saudi universities. But I was offered less than half that salary by KSU a few years back. Housing allowance could not be more than about SR3000 a month, so even if that is being included in your salary, I simply do not think there is any way KSU are offering you SR30000 a month. SR13000 would be more like it.

Mia Xanthi · Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2010 10:17 pm Post subject:

I agree with Cleo. A Ph.D. with a full professorship and a bookshelf full of publications might get a salary like that, but not an English teacher, no matter what his/her credentials. TEFL teachers are just not all that hard to find.

(Did I get it right this time? It was Cleo and not VS?) Laughing

johnslat · Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2010 10:28 pm Post subject:

Dear eliahaydon,

Was this a written or a spoken offer?
If spoken, well, thirteen thousand can sound an awful lot like thirty thousand.

Regards,
John

Cleopatra · Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2010 9:11 am Post subject:

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

Yes, KAUST is offering salaries that high with an MA and significant years of experience (20+?).

VS