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Teaching In Thailand Teaching in Thailand can be a great career with salaries in the range of $2,500 to $6,000 per month, or you could become a TEFLer with a salary range of 350-500 pounds per month, no experience necessary.

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Old 20-07-2008, 11:12 PM   #41 (permalink)
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FFS, I'll type slow then. I was NOT financially secure before I started teaching in Thailand. I am now, relatively speaking.
So what exactly has that got to do with what MM said.

He said if you can't save money teaching then don't do it for more than 5 years.

You can save money, so carry on.

Seriously, Willy, it was only one sentence and you are supposed to be a proper techa and all that
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Willy, my dear boy, I'll quote it for you to read again and try to understand this time. He said "if you are not financially secure". But you say you are, so he is not talking about you.
FFS, I'll type slow then.

I was NOT financially secure before I started teaching in Thailand. I am now, relatively speaking.
You stated you were investing. So, I was not referring to you.

Why are we so caught up in semantics, today. NickA is correct. Is it OK to move on with this topic?
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^That, dear parents, is what you get if you pay millions of baht for a top international school

Pay peanuts and you get monkeys.

Pay gold and you might still get a monkey
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^That, dear parents, is what you get if you pay millions of baht for a top international school
Nope. no kingwilly any schools I know of. much more responsible than an online persona
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Old 21-07-2008, 01:40 PM   #47 (permalink)
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Returning to the original thread, I don't think many people are making over 100k teaching in Thailand unless they are working at a top tier international school, like Shrewsbury or ISB.

Second tier schools like Assumption, Trinity, Anglo Singapore, barely pay more than Tefl rates. St. Gabriels doesn't even pay their teachers, they get them for free from Canada in a school exchange. Most of these so called international schools are rip offs for parents and teachers. The money goes to the owner, that's about it.
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Just out of curiousity, do teachers get annual pay rises?
It's just that Thai inflation has averaged about 6% per annum which is pretty high.
Just a couple of years without a pay rise would mean a pretty hefty pay cut in real terms.
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Let me try to clear up some misconceptions about international schools.

Fist let me say that I am one of those people who are at the lower end of the high end salaries. Why? Simply because I am a local guppy. Still, it is a very nice wage.

The oversea hires are fished from a deep hole and treated as such.

The top schools like ISB, Harrow, RIS, NIST, and BPS all tend to hire from overseas. These teachers want a salary just like they were getting back in their home country. Normally they get that and then some. I personally know teachers (not administrators) making 170 baht per month. Keep in mind this does include housing, etc. And these teachers are still not happy. Most of these teachers will only be here about 2 years before moving back home.

Back to the money. The big schools as mentioned above will all start out at least with a basic salary package of 120,000 per month. Throw in housing from 20,000-40,000 per month, along with a free airline ticket home once a year. Most teachers depending upon their home country might not have to pay taxes for the first two years while teaching in Thailand. In comparison, I pay almost B10,000 per month to the Thai government.

But this is just the basic package for many teachers. Throw in some additional responsibilities and the net income can increase dramatically.

Has been mentioned, the medium tiered international schools will offer salaries from B60,000-90,000 depending upon qualifications and needs of the particular school.

Now the administrations of these schools are a different fish all together. I have met one head guy who was only making B125,000 per month. Another had a package worth B240,000. And finally, I met a big fish who was having trouble with his half million baht per month and his living expenses both here and abroad.

Much more to this issue but perhaps you got your line baited.
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Old 21-07-2008, 04:21 PM   #52 (permalink)
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Just out of curiousity, do teachers get annual pay rises? It's just that Thai inflation has averaged about 6% per annum which is pretty high. Just a couple of years without a pay rise would mean a pretty hefty pay cut in real terms.
Normally get a pay rise, but not based on inflation and they also generally have a ceiling.

I'm on the ceiling.

Hence I'm going back to the UK on Wednesday
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Hence I'm going back to the UK on Wednesday
What? For ever and ever?
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My ex worked at Harrow as a supply teacher for a bit. He was on about 87k baht, told me a few other teachers were well on over 100k.
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What? For ever and ever?
See how it goes. I've got an interview to do a PGCE. My son is already enrolled in a school and he'll be starting in September. If the family is happy and teaching is OK then I'll stay and only holiday in Thailand. If things are shit then i'll slug it out for a year or two and then get a job at an international school, probably in thailand, but maybe somewhere else.

Really, it's been so long since I've lived there I can't remember what i disliked about it. Plus maybe living there with the family might be good, might not. We won't know until we've tried it.
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NickA and I are in the same boat. Albeit there will be alot of water in between us. Should be interesting.
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i know a number of "tefl scum", not "proper" teachers making over 100k a month
they work a lot of hours for it but the money is there for them
some teach business or specialist classes like IELTS, others specialize with kids
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