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Mikeylikesit114 · Joined: 21 Dec 2007 Posts: 129

For all the posters who are being convinced to take positions offering minimal salaries because "the average Chinese person (or teacher) only makes (blah blah blah), well, I have some news for you.

My boss, a dean at a PUBLIC University, makes a million RMB per year. Another dean in our department just bought an 8 million RMB villa and a 1.5 million luxury SUV. He paid for both in full, with no loans.

Cheers and beers to those underpaid academics in their ivory towers.

evaforsure · Joined: 26 Jun 2004 Posts: 1217

the question now .. "wot do u make?"

Mikeylikesit114 · Joined: 21 Dec 2007 Posts: 129

Not enough. Yet.

evaforsure · Joined: 26 Jun 2004 Posts: 1217

aint that the truth....

The Ever-changing Cleric · Joined: 19 Feb 2009 Posts: 1523

@ 2000 RMB/Mo it would only take you 4000 months to buy your own villa. Of course, when you finally buy your villa in the 25th century, the price might have gone up.

eddy-cool · Joined: 06 Jul 2008 Posts: 1008

evaforsure · Joined: 26 Jun 2004 Posts: 1217

Mr.Cool..his post was addressed to those who are convinced to take lesser pay and who do not perceive their pay to be adequate..

Hansen · Joined: 13 Oct 2008 Posts: 737 Location: central China

OP, Would you like to give us an accounting of where the money comes from? Definitely not his salary. I have heard of people paying as much as a quarter of a million to somebody for a job at a government school. If it is just one person getting the money, he would only have to sell four jobs a year to make a million. It's unlikely that he could do that every year, however.

AlexB · Joined: 06 Jan 2008 Posts: 28

Is it all that surprising for a dean to make a million a year? Just this morning a job advert landed in my inbox for a lecturship at the University of Nottingham, Ningbo offering a maximum salary of GBP 50,569 plus accommodation allowance - or RMB520,568.14 on today's exchange rates. That's just for a lecturer. Granted Nottingham Ningbo might be a special case with its links to the UK university, but if that's what a lecturer there can make, what sort of salaries are you expecting a dean to take?

Want to make some money teaching in China? Get up off your ass and get properly qualified and experienced in a specific disipline then work your way up the university ladder - comparing an ESL teachers wage to that is all but irrelevant

Mikeylikesit114 · Joined: 21 Dec 2007 Posts: 129

Hansen:

Yep, his salary is a cool million. Full professors here make about half of that. The villa guy runs the executive education program here, which is our moneymaker.

eddy-cool · Joined: 06 Jul 2008 Posts: 1008

Could you, Mickey114, name the employer that fattens its deans and professors to such an indecent extent? They wonh't mind being mentioned publicly, I am sure, as they will gladly enroll more students that help keep the roubles rolling in.

I am also sure that your dean has an educational background that puts him in the driver's seat - while you remain a passenger.

Where I work, even professors make no more than the lowest of the laowai teachies. In fact, our principals earn a good deal less than us.

The Great Wall of Whiner · Joined: 29 Jan 2003 Posts: 4946 Location: Blabbing

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Hansen · Joined: 13 Oct 2008 Posts: 737 Location: central China

Any one can come here and report many things. For instance, when Gong Li was younger, shortly after her relationship with a certain director had ended, I met her in an art gallery in the Peninsula Hotel in Hong Kong. She was trying to make a decision about a couple of pictures she liked.

Since I had some knowledge of art, having previously worked for an exclusive gallery in Los Angeles, I was invited to offer my opinion by the galley worker, who was a friend of mine. I made a few observations, which Gong Li appreciated, and I went on my way.

Later, she came into the bar where I was waiting for my friend from the gallery. She sat in a booth in a private area. A bar worker came over and said Ms Gong had invited me to join her in her booth. I ordered a nice bottle of sherry and joined her.

She thanked me for helping her make her decision about the pictures. We talked a bit, had a few glasses of sherry, and I smoked my pipe. She enjoyed the fragrance of the tobacco very much. It was a fine aromatic known as "deacon's downfall." I had brought it to China from California.

Well, yes, she invited me to her room and I spent not only the night, but a few days with her. She is even more beautiful than the sultry singer in Shanghai Triad.

Anyone believe that?