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eamo · Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

I'd like to take a kind of measuring stick.

What would you think is a fair pay package for a public school position, specifically high school, which offers 12 weeks vacation per year and the regular 24 classes per week in term time?

Any opinions welcome. Especially those with jobs which match the above.

Jizzo T. Clown · Joined: 27 Mar 2006 Location: at my wit's end

As far as I know there are three pay levels, based on experience and qualifications.
Level 3 is 2.0m /month, 2 is 2.1m / month, level 1 is 2.3.
That's through GEPIK.

Other posters may have other / better information.

seoulsucker · Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 4:48 pm Post subject:

As an independent, I get paid 40,000 per class. With a normal schedule, it works out to about 3 mil per month. Sometimes more, sometimes less. My time off is unpaid (3 months), but the salary, schedule and other freedoms make up the difference.

Last year I had a contract rate of 2.7 but that included a 350,000 housing allowance.

oskinny1 · Joined: 10 Nov 2006 Location: Right behind you!

I have the same arrangement as you are being offered, I am paid at level 1. I work camps and make an extra 6 million or so (total for 2 camps).

eamo · Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

Mosley · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

eamo: if you can get a job like that w/three months PAID vacation/year...take it.

eamo · Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

sjk1128 · Joined: 04 Feb 2005

I work at a public elementary school and get 2.5m including a housing allowance. I have 11 weeks vacation and do not get paid extra for teaching their 2 week (4 hours a day) camp in the summer. However, the school allows me to work other camp jobs during the rest of the summer and winter vacations to make extra money.

Weigh what's important to you when you decide. I was offered an almost identical job, except that the average class size was 32 instead of 12. The pay was 250k more per month, but the vacation was only 6 weeks per year. I chose less money to have small classes and more vacation. Also, consider that you can likely work during that vacation time if you want more money. I'll be making 7m this summer working at a uni camp. With my regular salary after taxes, that's 11.5m for two months' work. I can take the full 5.5 weeks in the winter as vacation and still make 40m this year - which is way better than I was doing at a hagwon where I had to fight with my director for 5 days off in a row.

Good luck.

BTW, have you met any of the students at the school? You spend most of your day with them, and it makes a big difference to me what they're like....

eamo · Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

Mosley · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

Yeah, having to pay for your own housing changes the equation a fair bit. Now I don't know what to tell ya....

ttompatz · Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Location: Kwangju, South Korea

oskinny1 · Joined: 10 Nov 2006 Location: Right behind you!

eamo · Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

indigo · Joined: 03 May 2006 Location: Yeoju

could any of you give me some tips on how you're getting these jobs with 10+ weeks paid vacation? i did one year at a hogwan, and this year i'm looking for a public school position, but so far the most vacation time i'm seeing is 5 weeks...

T-dot · Joined: 16 May 2004 Location: bundang

12 weeks vacation, but gotta teach 4 weeks of summer classes(paid on top of my normal salary) + yearly severance.

8-4:30, 20 classes a week +10 extra classes a week (paid extra on top of salary).

High level students in a High School.

anything at 2.5 and higher (including housing allowance) is fair depending on your qualifications. Your extra classes +vacation should make up for the extra $$.