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BELS
Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 402 Location: Moscow
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Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 8:32 pm Post subject: The lowly English Teacher |
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I should add that the lowly English teacher is really a middle-class professional in the Russian pecking order. Take a look at www.rabota.ru to see what kind of money Russian professionals get.
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Point is , Russians don�t advertise their true rates of pay, they have a proportion paid legally to them, to pay a bit of tax and national insurance and are given the rest in cash. Russian middle class would laugh at anything lower than $3,000 month. My Russian wife certainly laughed at this above quote. The British minimum wage is about �800 per month, Yes ���s I said. that�s for loo cleaners, road sweepers, and dishwashers. So how are these highly paid professional teachers persuaded to come to Moscow. I would say a middle class ex-pat shouldn�t expect anything less than $4,000 per month, plus free housing , and any specialised training will be free of charge, of course. I am talking about any professional in general. |
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zaneth
Joined: 31 Mar 2004 Posts: 545 Location: Between Russia and Germany
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Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 11:15 am Post subject: |
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These numbers sound suspect to me. Granted, I'm not in the thick of things in Moscow and don't have much contact with highly trained expats working for corporations.
Yes, there's a difference between official salary and what a person really brings in. But the official salary can be $15-50 in some cases. I highly doubt the average russian 'middle class' (actually, this term doesn't really work so well here) would laugh at $3000.
Highly limited anecdotal information: An expat teacher acquaintance who works very hard reportedly makes $2000. A highly trained Russian teacher I know doesn't break $1000. An entry-level American Embassy Employee will get ~$2,000 I've read.
A family of two professionals each bringing in $3,000? Seems to me that that would be extraordinary money in Moscow.
I don't expect anybody to be offering me $4,000 and flat any time in the near future, even after I become fluent and finish my PhD (wouldn't that qualify me as a profession)?
Don't everybody come rushing to Moscow expecting $4,000.
Anybody who's more connected to the bigwigs have better information? I'd love to be proven wrong. Given the contrasts in this country, I might be. |
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