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viddy · Joined: 07 Jan 2004 Posts: 50 Location: London, England

Just a quick question:

On AEON's webpage it says that the working hours are 36 hours/week. The basic monthly salary is 255,000 Yen per month and the overtime rate is stated as 3,000 Yen per hour AFTER 25 hours.

Is overtime paid ON TOP OF the basic salary i.e. for the 11 hours ON TOP OF the 25 hours? Therefore does the monthly salary usually work out to around 288,000 Yen?

Or is that just wishful thinking?! Wink

Glenski · Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 12844 Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN

From their web site:
"Teachers will not teach more than twenty-five hours a week or they will be paid overtime. "

My guess is that the 11 hours over this are the break periods included, whether you use them for meals, interviewing students, toilet, sleeping, or lesson prep. Teachers usually get paid for 25 classroom hours a week at that relatively standard wage.

If you are really in doubt, why ask here? Ask AEON directly. It's a simple question they should have no problems answering.

viddy · Joined: 07 Jan 2004 Posts: 50 Location: London, England

Thanks for the help Glenski. Much appreciated.

guest of Japan · Joined: 28 Feb 2003 Posts: 1601 Location: Japan

AEON classes are 50 minutes long. To go above 25 teaching hours you have to teach 30 or more classes a week. That almost never happens.

You are not paid overtime for your prep time either. If you stay extra every night because you feel you are busy do not expect to see a penny for it. It will not come. You will get paid overtime if you work a day off or come in a few hours early at the request of the manager.

Usually new teachers cannot fulfill all their duties in their scheduled times at the school. They often come in early, work late, or work on their days off. This is out of necessity and not at the request of the manager. It is often that the teachers put in more than 50 hours a week. None of these bonus hours are paid. Experienced teachers usually start and leave at the appointed times because they have learned better time management skills, have files on hand for their lessons which they only need to adjust rather then invent, and because they grow sick of the free overtime that they put in in the early months.

shmooj · Joined: 11 Sep 2003 Posts: 1758 Location: Seoul, ROK

unchi pants · Joined: 20 Dec 2003 Posts: 64

guest of Japan · Joined: 28 Feb 2003 Posts: 1601 Location: Japan

I think there is a difference between workaholic and dedicated teacher. I just haven't figured out exactly what it is yet.

BuddhaRhubarb · Joined: 22 Jan 2004 Posts: 14

johnslat · Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 12:05 am Post subject:

Dear guest of Japan,

"I think there is a difference between workaholic and dedicated teacher. I just haven't figured out exactly what it is yet."

Perhaps these:

Workaholics don't know what to do with leisure time, demand perfection and make work when none is really needed. It's an addiction, and, as such, is a form of insanity.

Dedicated teachers value their "downtime" (because they know it helps make them even better teachers), do the best they can, but know perfection is unattainable and are quite willing to use whatever "short-cuts" and "timesavers" they've learned over the years. They're sane.

Regards,
John

guest of Japan · Joined: 28 Feb 2003 Posts: 1601 Location: Japan

I'll buy that for a dollar.

viddy · Joined: 07 Jan 2004 Posts: 50 Location: London, England

Does anyone know when the AEON set vacations are? I think there's one in the summer and one in the winter.

guest of Japan · Joined: 28 Feb 2003 Posts: 1601 Location: Japan

New Year, Golden Week and Obon. That's January, May, and August if you're not sure.