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[Kowloon]

Please vote for your post tax salary bracket. A lot of talk on here about earning potential/problems, but rare for people to put their money where their mouth is and state their earnings (excuse the pun!) This allows us all to do it anonymously

Please try and calculate benefits such as housing into your salary before voting (as if it were part of your monthly take home). If you work two proper part-time jobs to make up your week then include the combined salary. If you work one proper full-time job but do extra unofficial privates then please exclude the privates when voting. If you're free lance then vote based on an average year's income.

Here is a link to a currency converter https://www.oanda.com/currency/converter/

[spiral78]

Meaningless. Cost of living in the country is key. If I tell you I make the equivalent of about fifty thou US per annum, you have no idea if I am living like a pauper or a king.

[HeidiHector]

How very true!! I thought when I voted that this only polled the teachers in China. I guess I was confused by all those tabs I had on my browser.

So here goes (all before tax and including perks):

I worked for two Sino-Foreign universities in two different Tier Two cities in China.

Job One (2010-2013) Ending salary $45-46k

Job Two (2013-Present) Ending salary $50-51k

I'm starting a job in Hong Kong in the fall cuz I can't take the pollution on the Mainland anymore. Though I have effectively taken a significant pay cut given the cost of living in HK, I think it's well worth it in the long run.

Job Three Starting salary $58k

I've often heard from former colleagues that salaries in the ME are much higher, to the tune of $60k starting. I am curious to hear what people from that region have to say.

Cheers.

[Jmbf]

[scot47]

International comparisons of earnings and expenditure are very complex - and in the long run do not mean very much.

[spiral78]

The other issue is that, assuming that 'I' earn the equivalent of 50,000 USD annually in 'my' location, that does not mean that 'you' could move 'here' and expect equivalent pay.

[nomad soul]

[suphanburi]

A most meaningless poll if ever there was one.
Salary range varies WIDELY from country to country along with the cost and quality of living.

As an example, a young, 20-something, coming to Asia with a newly minted BA in an unrelated subject is likely to be earning between $1000-2000 per month and the position may or may not include other benefits.
eg: Korea pays about $24k per year plus housing and airfare.
China will offer somewhere between $14k and 30k per year and MAY, depending on the city/province offer other benefits.
Thailand will pay about $10k/year with NO other benefits.
You can expect about $7500/year in Cambodia or Laos and $15-20k in Vietnam.

At the other end of the scale, for those with proper teaching credentials and experience, a remuneration package in the range of $50-65k per year is certainly on the table across the region.

Depending on where you are located that can give you a lifestyle akin to anything from "comfortable" to downright luxurious. Personally, I like flying on the top deck of an Emirates or Sing Air A380 ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RTB7v31Fms ) and the Krisworld lounge at Changi airport or the Emirates lounge in Dubai or HK are pretty nice from the inside and a salary in the 2+ million THB/year range goes a LONG way in Thailand.

The same may not necessarily be true in other countries or regions. 65k USD does not stretch nearly as far if you are working in HK, Shanghai or Singapore.
It would be very comfortable but you probably wouldn't be wasting cash flying "top deck".

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[bograt]

I can see this is shaping up to be one of those 'this poll is meaningless'! but by the way this is how much I make everybody' kind of polls.

[suphanburi]

[Kowloon]

[scot47]

So that is twice what a teacher might get in Scotland. Does that means you are twice as rich ?