Wages

[Artisi]

Sometime back there was a lot of discussion regarding new wage levels to be introduced this year for all for Farangs employed in Thailand, can anybody please shed some light on the latest developments (if any).

[Indo-Siam]

July 10th -

Japanese, American, Canadian, 60,000 baht;

Europeans and Australians, 50,000 baht;

Koreans, Taiwanese, Hong Kong Chinese, Singaporeans, Malaysians, British National Overseas passport holders, 45,000 baht;

Indians, Middle Easterners, mainland Chinese, Indonesians, Filipinos, 35,000 baht:

Laos, Burmese, Vietnamese, Cambodian and all Africans, 25,000 baht.

[mbkudu]

English teachers are exempt from this rule because they are needed desperately

in the country and they generally earn sh##ty wages.

[astral]

July 10th -

Japanese, American, Canadian, 60,000 baht;

Europeans and Australians, 50,000 baht;

Koreans, Taiwanese, Hong Kong Chinese, Singaporeans, Malaysians, British National Overseas passport holders, 45,000 baht;

Indians, Middle Easterners, mainland Chinese, Indonesians, Filipinos, 35,000 baht:

Laos, Burmese, Vietnamese, Cambodian and all Africans, 25,000 baht.

Remember these are minimum values.

If you have the skills to get a work permit here, you should be able to command much higher figures

[bkk_mike]

If you look at the web board at www.thaiimmigration.com - it seems it's only teachers "working at public and private educational institutions approved by Ministry of Education" that are exempt of the income rules...

So check where you're working and if they're not approved (some private language schools?), you probably do need to earn the new rates.