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GEPIK to cut salaries, reduce vacation time
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World Traveler



Joined: 29 May 2009
PostPosted: Mon Dec 26, 2011 7:59 pm    Post subject: GEPIK to cut salaries, reduce vacation time Reply with quote
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Most of all, new salary decision criteria was a huge difference and now everyone must complete TESOL program in order keep your contract within GEPIK program.


http://waygook.org/index.php/topic,27455.0.html

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Rural extra 5 days vacation is no more available in GEPIK Program.


Previously, certified teachers got 2.2 million per month. Under the new pay scale, their earnings will be 2.0 million per month. (That means a 2.6 million reduction in salary over the course of a one year contract.)

Will people still jump at the chance to work for GEPIK? Probably. (But it will be interesting to see what happens.)
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thebektionary



Joined: 11 May 2011
PostPosted: Mon Dec 26, 2011 9:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yeah, I just got offered a GEPIK job after working at two different hagwons and I'm going to take it even though I will be making the same salary I did at the hagwons, even after a year experience and a TEFL certification.

It's still a better job than a hagwon that includes six times the vacation and way less teaching hours so I don't really care about the salary as much.

I say it's better to cut the salaries than cut the jobs altogether.
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World Traveler



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PostPosted: Mon Dec 26, 2011 10:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
thebektionary wrote:
So if I taught at a hagwon again I could potentially make 2.3.


I'd say you are taking a pay cut to work with GEPIK then. Because with your TEFL certification you will now be starting at 2.0 million a month, meaning you will make 3.9 million less per year at GEPIK than at a hagwon. But if 3,900,000 won is an insignificant amount of money for you, and if you are convinced GEPIK is the better job, go for it.
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koreatimes



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PostPosted: Mon Dec 26, 2011 10:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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includes six times the vacation


Deskwarming job, meet thebektionary.
thebektionary, meet deskwarming job.
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plchron



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PostPosted: Mon Dec 26, 2011 10:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
And you can make more money working in another school district.
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NYC_Gal 2.0



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 27, 2011 2:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I work fewer hours at my hagwon and don't have to deal with coteachers. I do miss the extra week and 2 days of vacation time, but I don't feel as though I need it as much as I did when I worked at a public school.
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Airborne9



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 27, 2011 4:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I wonder if they will start saying that the 100 hr online TEFL course is not good enough.
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Malislamusrex



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 27, 2011 4:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
If it wasn't obvious before it is obvious now...... GEPIK don't want teachers with any experience at their schools. A certified teacher could get better pay at a hakwon for 5 hours and don't have to deal with co-teachers.

The reason GEPIK don't want teachers because they can throw the 'teachers' with no experience under the bus if they ever get questioned on educational procedures.... POLITICS FIGHTING!!!!!!
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ttompatz



Joined: 05 Sep 2005
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 27, 2011 5:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Malislamusrex wrote:
If it wasn't obvious before it is obvious now...... GEPIK don't want teachers with any experience at their schools. A certified teacher could get better pay at a hakwon for 5 hours and don't have to deal with co-teachers.

The reason GEPIK don't want teachers because they can throw the 'teachers' with no experience under the bus if they ever get questioned on educational procedures.... POLITICS FIGHTING!!!!!!


Actually, they increased the minimum requirements while reducing the remuneration package (or more correctly, increased the requirements needed at each level with no increase in pay).

They are taking advantage of the flood of economic refugees from the States by getting more for less and there are enough desperate, laid-off Americans (including real teachers) who will accept 2.0 for 22 classes + all the rest that goes with it.

Makes perfect sense - supply and demand. Sucks to be a newbie coming from the States though (with fewer viable options and a planet willing to take advantage (returning the favors for the last 50 years)).

On the bad side, hagwans are headed in the same direction with average starting salaries dropping 10-20% over the last 2 years and more people willing to accept the lower salaries and nonsense because there is nothing else for them.

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thebektionary



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 27, 2011 6:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
World Traveler wrote:
thebektionary wrote:
So if I taught at a hagwon again I could potentially make 2.3.


I'd say you are taking a pay cut to work with GEPIK then. Because with your TEFL certification you will now be starting at 2.0 million a month, meaning you will make 3.9 million less per year at GEPIK than at a hagwon. But if 3,900,000 won is an insignificant amount of money for you, and if you are convinced GEPIK is the better job, go for it.


No, my pay scale in GEPIK now is 2.1, not 2.0. And in hagwons I have been offered mostly 2.2. It's hard to get 2.3 out of them. So in reality it's only 1.3 million won a year. I'd say it's worth it to not take a risk with a hagwon. The hagwon I was just offered to work at is 2-9 every day but in the summers and winters it's intensive so it's 9-6 with only 5 days paid vacation and 5 days unpaid. GEPIK is sounding better than that, even if I am getting 100,000 won less per month.