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Originally Posted by MisterStretch
Cap, with a uni degree, TEFL (or equivalent) and two years of verifiable teaching (letters of recommendation suffice) then you're at 2.5 as your basic package in a government school with the EPIK program. If you work in more than one school (normally the case...can work up to three) then if it's 3 then you are at 2.65, no weekend work, generous overtime classes (at least in my case, $40 an hour, 4 hours a week), short days, my typical day runs from 9-5.
I wouldn't take either of the gigs you are talking about...even the 3.0 one. This month I will make 3.15, and I don't do privates, though I could.
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Depends where he works. I was on 2.3 through EPIK, and I worked in Busan. I have 8 yrs exp., TEFL and uni degree (and teaching cert. - but that didn't matter). I was offered 2.6 in rural Gongju (no, not Gwangju). Don't know what the rates are in Seoul. In Busan I could get 2.5 if I stayed with EPIK for 2 consecutive years.
But public schools are better than those shitty hagwons. I got 16 weeks of paid vacation this past year. They always pay on time, I taught 18 hours a week, and I was done at 4:30. You're the only foreigner there, though, and most of my kids didn't speak any English. I only saw my classes once a week (some even less), and it can get pretty boring at times. Still, it's better than any hagwon gig IMO.