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[kev7161]

I think it's interesting that, to date, we have 61 responders and almost half claim earnings of 10K or more! So, with this "unofficial" poll seeming to lose steam now, the "big buck" jobs are out there. I've recently seen adverts for 12,000 to 18,000 jobs (one job). Check out:

http://www.eslteachersboard.com/

You might find your own high-paying job!

[wailing_imam]

3,000 SGD a month (15,000RMB) + Perks for a four month stint in China.

Have five years TEFL experience. This is my job.

The other teachers here are first timers, teach hardly anything and get paid 4,500 a month, which is what they deserve.

[JAZ]

I have a BA and am a qualified primary school teacher.

I earn 21000RMB per month, after tax.

[Yu]

I inculded my housing allowance in the total I am paid.

[OGFT]

I have just been offered a full time job from being picked up in the morning at 7:30 taken to work and teach as many periods needed with a luch and study hall break, not too bad, off work at 3:30 and a bus ride back..long way ...over an hour to commute but the chance to study because it is a confortable school bus...Math is the subject.....15000RMB....with two week break and one week off between terms. All paid...

I haven taken it yet but will decide tomorrow.

[lf_aristotle69]

[Damo22]

I have just finished teaching - don't intend to continue. This was my first 'job' out of uni.

I was earning 5000 (month) as my basic wage. On top of this I was making just under 2000 a month from private work. So, all in all, I had a monthly wage of about 7000RMB. I also had a rent free flat, payed no electricity or water bills. I was still working far fewer hours than I will do in the west (when I return after travels). I was working in a town about an hours drive from Shanghai (city centre).

[mondrian]

[kev7161]

Nice to see this thread was revived! No, the basic premise of this poll (any poll, really) is just to get a general idea. All the extras, perks, side jobs, etc. should be and have been put down in individual responses. Just like any poll, you have to take the results with a grain of salt, but it is clear that there ARE higher paying jobs out there AND some many are working the lower paying ones and some are seemingly happy about it. More power to everyone who enjoys their job and enjoys their pay, whether it be at the lower, middle, or higher end of the scale.

[gengrant]

[Horizontal Hero]

Am I allowed to vote, since I'm in Hong Kong (it's one country, you know)? But I'm on a low NET salary here - almost 20 000 less a month than some. Still, I earn well over ten times as much as some people have written here - and probably do only 2 or 3 times as much work. But I'm bitchin' about the holidays - only about ten weeks a year, fully paid.

[Damo22]

Why is it that, although the members of this forum feel qualified to discuss international politics, the state of China and the world in general, any discussion concerning their own profession is dismissed as �unscientific� or just stupid. I noticed a while ago that someone mentioned how much money was made �of his back�. The response from his fellow teachers� �Nothing to do with us�. One poster even claimed that no one here is �qualified� to discuss the economics of running a school. It�s funny that important questions such as �what is an acceptable sallary� are dismissed as �newbish� or irrelevent whilst at the same time we have threads running into hundreds of pages trying to analyse the state of the world and all its complexities�

[cubit]

This year I have been making 6000 RMB, about half of what I was making last year in Guangzhou. I moved up here because I wanted to practice my Mandarin and I wanted to work with a small struggling company to see what I could do with it.

I have accepted a position for the next school year back in Guangzhou for 15,000 RMB per month with 12 contact hours per week, but other work on top of that.

[yamahuh]

[cubit]

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