Thread: Teacher Salaries

Bangkok colleges, universities and private schools will not disclose teacher’s salaries. And surprisingly, teachers themselves also seem to think it’s in their benefit to keep their salaries secrete. Consequently, teaching salaries are effectively demoted to the level of street hawker bargaining. This serves neither the teacher nor the students. A higher paid teacher can spend more time on his students and less time looking for or earning supplementary income. Someone once said information is power. In California and other places in the world teacher salaries are freely available. http://www.nea.org/neatodayextra/salaries.html

http://resource.educationamerica.net/salaries.html

http://www.ed-data.k12.ca.us/Articles/Article.asp?title=Teachers+in+California

As long as teachers remain divided and parents remain ambivalent the institutions will continue to pay the lowest possible salaries, teacher’s rights will continue to be violated and caring parents will have to send their kids abroad or for a decent education.

The first step is the dissemination of information. Inform the public and your peers.

If you are currently employed please post your salary, your background and the type or institution you work for: Private College, Government College, Private University or Language Center. In addition, list any and all benefits you receive.

And most of all keep this post honest, current and open.

35,000 out in the countryside. My salary is only a secret from the 30,000 baht newbie plebs.

Welcome "small dog"

Something is SERIOUSLY wrong here! With the new visa concerns, many people are taking issue with the fact that they now need to deposit 64,000 baht per month in a bank account. With most of them, they say this isn't a problem, but an inconvenience. I realize this is for a work visa, that is not my point. As teachers, we can only dream about making this much, for them this is extra to be deposited at the end of the month.

Something needs to be done, the question is .....what?!? We are not simply working, we are educating these citizens to help develop and improve this country! A service that only a limited number of nations can supply. Most of us are dedicated and work hard at providing this service. I, for one, still love thailand and I don't want to leave. Yes, it would be very simple to get a much higher paying job in another country, I've turned down offers of over 2000 US per month, with housing, a few weeks ago. But seriously, what can be done about the fact that teachers are getting screwed so badly?!?!?!

Why compare Thailand to the USA? It's useless. Thailand is about as far as you can get from America unless you go to the Moon. Maybe you need to read more or live more, smalldog. They'll do whatever they can get away with. And any Westerner who deals with Thais will turn a blind eye cause he's been here too long and has gone native from all the trials of trying to scratch out a living, IMO.

What on earth are you teachers going to do if you plan to stay on here? I think that salaries have become a serious problem for most westerners over here - not only for teachers. The thai employers simply do not want to pay a fair wage. They scimp & scrape to the lowest possible wage - they are not good about benefits and annual raises unless pressed. I believe that their ethics are a genuine problem. I have been with the same employer for 2.5 years now. It is simply not fair.

I have no idea of other countries in Asia. I hope you guys get yourselves sorted out.

Originally Posted by Nemo.

Well I suspect that teaching in Thailand is only really viable for "2nd careers" especially for those with substantial assets in a pension and a house that are looking for a way out of the rat race and just want beer and whoring money.....

What really sucks also is Thialand has the stupidest immi laws

It is starting to look that way.

The immi laws are becoming nonsensical - no-one genuinely knows what to believe any more - the stories change by the day. It has been this way for the past few years that I can remember and is getting worse. I'm not happy with the way things are moving, to be honest.

I thought you knew everything about visa rules.

[quote=natalie8]I thought you knew everything about visa rules. [/quote

No.

You're wrong.

Try again.