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Lorean · Joined: 21 Dec 2006 Posts: 476 Location: Beijing

This is bullshit. Your factory is pulling one over you, or is incredibly stupid.

These are the prices I've paid for private lessons:

Beijing
60 RMB an hour for senior majoring in teaching Chinese to foreigners at Beijing's top language University.

Qing Dao
50 RMB an hour for a Chinese language instructor working at a University who has a Masters in Chinese and several years of teaching experience.

If I wanted some random unqualified student to come talk to me in Chinese I would expect to pay 20-30RMB an hour.
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u24tc · Joined: 14 May 2007 Posts: 125 Location: Dalian, China

Chinese tutors here are roughly 30 rmb an hour...

50 rmb max...

patsy · Joined: 07 Oct 2004 Posts: 179 Location: china

Last year at my college, one of the english teachers who was my friend said that her salary varied every month based on things like "how good she'd done", go figure. I know the teachers got extra pay the month the review board came though and they had to spend a lot of overtime in her words, "making fake documents".

SnoopBot · Joined: 21 Jun 2007 Posts: 740 Location: USA

I've seen Chinese teachers giving the higher end of the scale private lessons. You can see the rates in "That's Beijing" classified.

Usually, they are very attractive younger Chinese women and often post a picture along with rates or they are specialized in something often business.

I don't think there is hanky-panky going on here (20 rmb stand is raised to 75 rmb+ for the attractive teacher)

However, they (pretty Chinese 75 RMB +teachers) are still able to find enough privates to do well, even at those inflated prices.