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| This is for teachers with a year or more teaching in Korea. What's the lowest salary you'd take before honestly saying enough is enough and go home? Your choices are: |
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20% |
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| 2.3 |
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11% |
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| 2.2 |
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14% |
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| 2.1 |
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13% |
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| 2.0 |
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21% |
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| 1.9 |
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2% |
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| 1.8 |
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8% |
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| 1.7 |
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0% |
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| 1.6 |
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1% |
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| 1.5 |
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5% |
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Radius
Joined: 20 Dec 2009
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 Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 4:43 am Post subject: What the LOWEST salary you'd accept (2) |
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Louis VI
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
Location: In my Kingdom
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| Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 5:00 am Post subject: |
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Well if it includes a sweet newer ocean-facing large one bedroom apartment in Haeundae and was a 3pm-7pm hagwon then I'd go as low as 1.6.
I worked an 18-hours-a-week hagwon for 2.5 mill for years and while the hours were sweet and pay not bad I traded the rural farming area stint for a 30-hour-a-week gig at 2.2 on Jeju simply for quality of life issues.
It mostly depends on the location, accommodations, teaching conditions. Money is almost beside the point. |
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Radius
Joined: 20 Dec 2009
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AsiaESLbound
Joined: 07 Jan 2010
Location: Truck Stop Missouri
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| Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 5:05 am Post subject: |
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| You forgot to list 2.5 and 2.6! LOL |
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Radius
Joined: 20 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 5:09 am Post subject: |
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| AsiaESLbound wrote: |
| You forgot to list 2.5 and 2.6! LOL |
lol, it wouldnt let me add another option, and im sure we'll get a lot more 1.5's than 2.5,6's. but then again, maybe not...I just cant see many hagwons or PS's offering that right now with the market. Uni's maybe. |
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thegadfly
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 6:37 am Post subject: |
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| Though it depends on the number of hours, 2.6 would send me packing...unless it were like 10 hours a week or something.... |
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FredDaSked
Joined: 17 Jun 2009
Location: Within You, Without You
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| Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 7:27 am Post subject: |
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| I replied with 2.4 because there wasn't a 2.5. I don't think there's a foreign teaching situation in Korea that's changed enough for the better over the past 10 years that I would take lower than I make now just to have the pleasure of being in it. And the market is not less able to bear a climbing living wage than it ever has been. |
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wooden nickels
Joined: 23 May 2010
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| Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 9:36 am Post subject: |
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| I want to say 3.0, but I'm not really sure. |
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ThingsComeAround
Joined: 07 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 4:08 pm Post subject: |
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Hotwire
Joined: 29 Aug 2010
Location: Multiverse
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| Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 4:23 pm Post subject: |
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| 2 Jin Ramyeon cups, 3 satchets of coffee and a bed. |
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T-J
Joined: 10 Oct 2008
Location: Seoul EunpyungGu Yeonsinnae
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| Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 3:24 am Post subject: |
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2 Jin Ramyeon cups, 3 satchets of coffee and a bed.
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2 Jin Ramyeon cups, 3 satchets of coffee and I'll sleep on the floor.
WooHoo! I gots meself a J-O-B. |
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Louis VI
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
Location: In my Kingdom
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| Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 4:23 am Post subject: |
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| T-J wrote: |
| 2 Jin Ramyeon cups, 3 satchets of coffee and I'll sleep on the floor. WooHoo! I gots meself a J-O-B. |
You'd be jobbed all right. |
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Radius
Joined: 20 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 5:56 am Post subject: |
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pretty interesting. i for sure thought i'd see more 1.6-1.8's. the 1.5 people must know that they wouldnt be able to save anything, right? i cant seem to spend less than 700,000 a month--subtracting that from the 1.5 salary would give you 500 big ones at the end of the month. I couldnt do that.
I do have a suspicion that some of the people voting the 2.2-2.3 would come down a little, though
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bobbybigfoot
Joined: 05 May 2007
Location: Seoul
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If the Hagwon Industry came together they could really drive down wages. I could see 2.0 being the new average. Even 1.8. 1.5 is probably pushing it.
The safer Korea gets, the more well known it gets, the less they will have to offer. |
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Otherside
Joined: 06 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 9:09 pm Post subject: |
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For me the big issue are the job conditions...
Are you talking your standard Hagwon/PS style jobs (in which case current wage is where I'm at...grudgingly), or do you allow for jobs with extremely favourable conditions. Louis' post pretty much sums it up.
For myself, and many other teachers, the main reason we teach in Korea is for the lifestyle, if money was a major issue, there are far better industries to be in. |
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