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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
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| W.T.Carl wrote: |
| I seem to recall doing 50 teaching hours a week for a month or three due to a lack of teachers and a bumper crop of students. It burned us out big time, but the money it was VERY good. When they cut us down to 40, it seemed like a vaction. |
How does overtime pay work? Anything over 40 hours (which includes both teaching, prep time, grading, etc.) is considered overtime? I know that we teachers must write down our hours every day, but I haven't gotten my first pay yet, so I'm not sure how it's supposed to work. |
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babtangee
Joined: 18 Dec 2004
Location: OMG! Charlie has me surrounded!
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| Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 11:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Qinella wrote: |
How does overtime pay work? Anything over 40 hours (which includes both teaching, prep time, grading, etc.) is considered overtime? I know that we teachers must write down our hours every day, but I haven't gotten my first pay yet, so I'm not sure how it's supposed to work. |
You should have a set number of hours/classes per week/month that you have to teach for your regular pay. One class more and you should be paid extra accordingly. This should be in your contract.
eg. I teach 30 (40 min) classes per week. My wonjung asked me to teach one extra class per week yesterday. So I would be teaching 31 classes per week. My contract says I must teach 30 classes per week for my regular 2.1m per month. Any additional classes and he pays me the set amount of 20,000 won. So, with four extra classes in the month, I will be paid 2.18m.
If, by overtime, you mean time-and-a-half or double-time (double pay), according to the labour board they don't have to pay you that much unless you work over 44 hours in a week. But it all depends on your contract (next year my overtime will definitely be 25,000 per class). |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2005 11:46 pm Post subject: |
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Okay, thanks for clearing that up for me.  |
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W.T.Carl
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 10:10 am Post subject: |
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| 50 minutes = 1 teaching hour. 30 hrs per week + 20,000 for each extra hour. 50 hours a week = major burn out. You can do it for a while, but not more than a month or two. |
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JacktheCat
Joined: 08 May 2004
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| Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 6:22 pm Post subject: |
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Myself, I'd never work over-time in a hackwon. It's hard enough getting your regular pay, let alone over-time pay.
This new "private" high school gig I've got is the first time in Korea that I have an employeer I can trust to pay me over-time and I am taking advantage of it.
I just starting teaching 15 extra classes a week (above my contracted 22 classes) for 37 classes a week. At 50 min for regular classes and 45 for extra classes, it works out to 30 classroom hours a week. With 5 hours of prep time and 15 hours of office time a week, I am in school for 50 hours a week. It's a bit of a stretch keeping my sanity, but the money is reaaal good.
http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/korea/viewtopic.php?t=37018 |
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