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[spiral78]

[Jmbf]

[spiral78]

Nope.
Only stating the barriers to entry into a job where I work.

Back to the original point, it's useless to ask for information about salaries for numerous reasons, among them situations like mine which exist but which aren't available on the job market.

[nomad soul]

[Jmbf]

[spiral78]

Deleted. Tired of the silly argument that my personal salary package might be useful information to anyone, when jobs in 'my' institute are not open regardless of quals.

[nomad soul]

[Jmbf]

[AGoodStory]

Lowest paid: Around US $175 per month. (Plus housing, utilities, Spanish classes and a few other miscellaneous perks.) For all practical purposes a volunteer job with an organization the UN was supporting.

Highest paid: US $68,000 per year. This was not only the highest salary I've received, but was supplemented by what the UN calls a "post adjustment" of over $42,000.

These are my extreme highs and lows over the course of 40 plus years. They are the outliers. Most of those years fell into the $34K--$52K range. The job I enjoyed the most averaged around $4,200 for a month-long contract (plus housing and flights), but was unpaid during the 4-5 months of the year when I did not work, so my annual income was less than stellar. (But the life enjoyment factor was high!)

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[sammysez]

The lowest I have received "HOURLY" part-time (which is quite common in the USA for adult level) is $14 per hour.

Yes, $14 per hour and then you're required to sign a form saying this is part-time, no possibility of full time employment, no sick day pay, no health benefits, no holiday pay, no out of class or prep time compensation.

Plus, on another job of the same salary, copy the "benefits" above, I was required to attend seminars for no pay.

HOWEVER, at the last job they did pay for lunch our last day there. That was our benefit.

[jpvanderwerf2001]

While abroad...
Lowest: $280/month in Ukraine (ages ago). Of course, my rent was $25/month...so everything is relative.
Highest: ~$4.5K/month in Russia (five years ago). At this point I had a family and a mortgage, so it didn't go super far.
The best salary/gig in terms of standard of living was in India (2004), where I made $1500/month, but my (pretty extravagant) housing was paid for, all up-front costs were reimbursed, and I had almost no expenses. I was able to travel rather extensively within the country and throughout SE Asia on that money. Of course, I didn't save much (though I got a decent tax return/pension check from the Indian government at the end). Anyway, I'd do it all again.

[nimadecaomei]

All in China:
From 8k->12k
From 34k->?
Chinese Yuan and monthly.

Lower paying job had a lot more crap work than the current one.

[sammysez]

$14 per hour, part-time with according to the contract we were required to sign "no possibility of full-time employment, no sick days, no holiday pay, no prep for class time pay, no over-time...."

Not sure I would call that quote unquote a salary.

[nomadic_meow]

$250-300 US/mo. plus serious long-distance entry/return/winter vacation flights (tickets up front!), with housing in a developing Georgian village. An officially government, "Volunteer" job paying more than local teachers earn fwiw. Some spartan conditions but the people were great. I banked about half the pay with effort -- but try to imagine supporting a family on half phew.

$2,500/mo. at a Chinese international boarding high school, 2nd tier city. Certificate and some experience required. The place was a bit of a basket case in its first year of operation, and students tended to avoid homework like the plague. But there are quite a few variations on this general theme around east China apparently.

[Gulezar]