Korean Job Discussion Forums

[FredDaSked]

Not long ago, many or most places were offering 2.5 minimum, but here's the kind of thing I come across all the time now:

1.Hakwon in Ilsan/Good Working Hours!!(Gyopo teacher wanted!)
-Location : Ilsan, Gyeonggi-Do
-Starting date : 09/22/2010
-Class Level : Elementary to Middle
-Salary : ￦ 2.0~
-Teaching Hours: 2:40pm~8:50pm(MWF), 3:40pm~9:30pm(TT)
-Work Days : Mon-Fri
-Housing : Single
-Vacation : 7days National Holidays days/year
# of Foreign Teachers : 5
Benefits Provided : Round Trip Airfare , Health Insurance(50%) , National Pension Plan , Severance pay

2.Public Middle School Position in Yangju City
-Location : Yangju city, Gyeonggi-Do
-Starting date : 09/30/2010
-Class Level : Middle School Students
-Salary : ￦ 2.0~
-Teaching Hours: 8:30am to 4:00pm
-Class : Middle
-Work Days : Mon-Fri
-Housing : Single
-Vacation : 20days National Holidays days/year
# of Foreign Teachers :1
Benefits Provided : Round Trip Airfare , Health Insurance(50%) , National Pension Plan , Serverance pay

3. Hokwon in Seocho-gu, Seoul (Gangnam area!)
(Qualified Teacher Wanted!)
- Openings : 1
- Location: Seocho-gu, Seoul
- Starting date: 09/25/2010
- Working Hours: 9:00am to 7:00pm
- Salary: 2.2m ~
- Teaching target: Pre-s
- Single housing offered
- Vacation: 10 days National Holidays
- Airfare: round trip
- National pension / health insurance: 50% paid by the school
- Severance: equal to one month salary
- # of foreign teachers: 8

2.5M is the minimum I'll be looking for, my next position, if there is one. It also seems to be the case that reimbursement is winning out over prepaid airfare. Good luck Korean employers and recruiters from here on out!

[northway]

I think they'll have significantly more difficulty filling their spots once the new CBC regulations are put in place, at which point I think salaries will go up.

[oldtactics]

Considering how many posts there are here on the boards from people who can't find jobs, I'm fairly certain that they could reduce those to 1.8 and still find people to fill them.

[mmstyle]

The maximum salary for PS positions in Seoul has been reduced, so from that standpoint, salaries are definitely going down.

[FredDaSked]

My first position in Ilsan, 2009 April, was 2.5, and the hours weren't nearly as crazy as some of these I see here. Maybe the privates and public English Zones are trying to see what the traffic will bear. but salaries from 2003-2004 are pretty unbearable.

[LDJS]

[Peter258]

Most places were offering 2.5 for new teachers...since when?

First time I've ever heard this.

I thought the 2.0 to 2.2 range has been the standard for first year teachers for awhile now.

[LDJS]

[FredDaSked]

No, really, when I started looking in mid-2008 on the internet from my office chair in Wisconsin, the main thing that encouraged me to come back was the salary. I saw a lot of 2.4 and 2.5, just casually searching. My first job in Nov 2008 was 2.5, Dongducheon. Second, 2.5, Ilsan. Both were privates. Third, public school, where I wanted to be (I thought at the time), 2.3. I just thought the publics, being public, paid on a different scale. And I told them what I had been making, and was offered a raise after a year from "the Company" that placed me in the elementary. I haven't seen it yet, after 13 months. But now, 2.5 is nowhere to be found, except for the rare wealthy schools who compensate by going through teachers rapid-fire.

[FredDaSked]

And, Oh yes, I have no TEFL, nothing but my 1987 degree in German from an Iowa private college.

[sendittheemail]

Salaries are going down down down. 1.8 coming soon to a hagwon near you:

http://prestigekorea.blogspot.com/2010/08/can-you-spare-any-change-for-english.html

[Epik_Teacher]

[ldh2222]

[ontheway]

[caniff]

If the difference of a 100,000 won a month is a deal breaker than you should seriously consider what it is that you are doing wrong (like maybe perhaps being in Korea at all in the first place).

I make coin here because I have the visa and the connections (and I'm the man). At the same time, I know good guys here who struggle through the E-2 process and are paid peanuts. I sincerely don't know why they bother.