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CP · Joined: 18 Jan 2007

Why speculate? Bargain and negotiate, as you would anytime for a teaching job in Korea or any other country for that matter, for what you think your fair market value is. It all comes down to your preferences and the hours you put in. Go with it.
If I was a newbie or someone with only 1 or 2 years experience I wouldn't try and get ahead of myself too much. Try and get a bit more than what they are offering you though, without being too greedy. Hagwons will be reluctant and unlikely to pay it at first - it's not likely they would cave in until after many months have passed and they have lost their student base. In the meaintime you are just sitting around.
Good luck. I'll let you know how my negotiations work out since my contract is done in March.

diablo3 · Joined: 11 Sep 2004

I would have to disagree that those with 1 or 2 years experience should not get ahead of themselves. If you are confident, then why not? Why wait for an excuse they tell you such as "you don't have enough experience". For many, how much experience do you need to entertain or be a monkey? However I do agree with this, negotiate and bargain.

PRagic · Joined: 24 Feb 2006

A poster on a different thread raised an interesting point. They are going to ask for the part of the contract stipulating that they can only work at the institute be dropped.

This would be an interesting turn of events. If it is getting more and more difficult and expensive for crapwons to recruit teachers, then even newbies can negotiate to have this portion of the contract removed, or, better yet, rewritten to make it viable for them to do privates or work at other places.

This will be important. For years now, virtually all education-related institutions have been hiring on foreign teachers, and then loading them down with overtime hours at crap pay to avoid having to hire more teachers. Take this option away from them. At the very least, overtime hours will have to reflect market rates.

Besides, you can always make more doing a couple of privates than you can working an extra class or two every day at subpar overtime rates.

Juregen · Joined: 30 May 2006

Netz · Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 3:45 pm Post subject: Re: Salary increases????

PRagic · Joined: 24 Feb 2006

E-2 holders CAN teach at other places IF they register with immigration, for which they have to have approval from their visa sponsor. This is the point I was making.

For F-2s and F-5s, teaching/working at other places CAN be a violation of contract terms; read all contracts carefully. No, this type of violation is not generally enforces, but you never know. Either way, I don't know any F-2/F-5 holders who would work at an institute! University contracts have to be checked, though.