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Is anyone getting less for overtime than regular time. For example, I make 18,000 won an hour regular time, but when I pass 30 hours, I get paid a paltry 11,000 an hour for overtime pay...

Isn't overtime supposed to pay at least "time and a half" more than regular pay??? I am confused.

weatherman · Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Location: Korea

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kimcheeking · Guest

Your contract pays you for contact time with students. Once you factor in prep and correction time you will see that your pay is actuallly less per hour.

and yes it is pretty standard here in Korea.

The Donkey · Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2003 10:24 pm Post subject:

I have time and a half at my hagwon. I had to "ask" for it though. The original contract stated less than my hourly wage. I did this of course before I signed my contract. So you may be SOL.

kricket · Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2003 4:21 am Post subject:

what kind of backward country pays less for overtime work??? This is crazy. What is their freakin reasoning behind paying less for more???

Real Reality · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Location: Seoul

Some people never get paid overtime even though they work overtime.
It is up to your boss. Do you have a good relationship with your boss?

Kricket, who are the characters in your avatar?

The Donkey · Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2003 5:35 am Post subject:

Captain Obvious 2.0 · Joined: 09 Jan 2003

Zyzyfer · Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2003 5:15 pm Post subject:

Maybe because kricket didn't do the math before signing the dotted line? But hey, it's just a contract...no biggie!

here it is · Joined: 29 Jan 2003

If memory serves, way back when, when I signed my first contract for 1.2, OT was cited as 15,000 per hour, and I think was standard. As the years have passed, and standard contract salary gradually went up...1.4...1.6...1.8...many contracts retained the flat hourly rate, either by oversight or not. I know the school I was doing hiring for at one point, and sending "standard contracts" out to prosepective teachers, was such a place. Salaries rose, OT stipulation did not, and then finally a new hiree said, before I sign I think the OT should be 25,000 per hour. We scratched our heads and said, duh, why didn't anyone else bring that up? And it was changed. Might explain why some contracts have a low OT rate.

Fallacy · Joined: 29 Jun 2015 Location: ex-ROK

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Weigookin74 · Joined: 26 Oct 2009

Well, I think the rates for public school had gotten up to 30,000 but have been cut back to 20,000, maybe even less. Fortuneately, many schools will still pay 30,000 themselves. Though a buddy out in a rural area had this meddlesome supervisor who would actually call the school and insit they pay him 20,000 when the school wanted to pay him 30,000.