Ben Round de Bloc
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 6:14 pm Post subject: Re: How much do universities pay? |
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| one sky wrote: |
| How much can one make at a university. Right now I make 7000 a month which is also kind of unstable (maybe next month I�ll have fewer classes)at a chain school. Also, how can one find a job at a university and do they help with getting an FM3? |
You could make a lot more or a lot less than you're now making. It depends on the university. It also depends on type and length of contract and number of hours contracted for.
How much can one make at a university? There are tenured teachers at the university where I teach who easily make triple or quadruple what you're currently earning due to their longevity, extra pay for higher degrees, and a few extra responsibilities tacked on.
I make slightly less per month than you do on my pay checks (take-home pay.) I teach 31 hours per week. However, I get paid for holidays -- 2 weeks at Christmas/New Year's, 2 weeks for Semana Santa, and several short holidays scattered throughout the year -- and for my 3-week summer break. I also receive about 2,000 pesos worth of vales each month and have private medical insurance as part of the package along with an end-of-year aguinaldo and sometimes a bit of bonus pay at the end of a semester. There's a private elite local university that pays a lot more per hour than I make, but it doesn't provide as many benefits. There's also a private university in the city that pays its foreign language teachers only 25 pesos per hour with very limited benefits.
Some universities advertise on the Internet. Some advertise in local newspapers. Some rely mostly on word of mouth to get applicants when there are openings. If there's a university in the city where you are, you could make contact with them to see if they have any openings or will have in the near future. (That's how I got my job at the university here.) If you travel to any other cities where there are universities that might interest you, do the same thing (make contact while you're there.) It usually seems to work better if you can make contact in person.
In the city where I am, few if any academic institutions -- or private language schools that I'm aware of -- help out financially with work visas. My university hands me its required part of the paperwork, and I do all of the rest. When the process is completed, I then give a photocopy of my renewed work visa to the university. |
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