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[doomer]

Ferfichkin is right.

The TW market isn't the gold rush it used to be 2 decades back, but it's not dead either. English is a core subject in every state-certified school, and part of every school entrance exam. As long as that's the case, English teaching jobs for preK-K12 will exist.

The very low birth-rate (bottom 5 in the world) has gradually resulted in a market contraction for every type of school (English or otherwise), but not market death.

Cram school wages (the largest TW TEFL market) for newbs have been vacillating within the average range of NT5-600 for a decade plus. Some pay lower, some higher. But wages can't go too low - otherwise no foreigner would come or stay, and only the very desperate (and not very effective) would bite.

Some vets are afraid of teacher oversupply driving wages down. But TEFL, like most markets, is differentiated. The primary factor of a teacher's wage in a for-profit school is the ability to retain students, or better yet, attract new ones. Any vet that can do the latter can demand a wage increase, regardless of the market number of newbies (who run a higher risk of losing students).