Hi,

I have seen many teaching positions in the THB 35-40k per month range, mostly in public schools for children. I have heard rumors that one could earn 120,000 THB per month teaching corporate English to business people if they are qualified.

Is this realistic?

What could one realistically earn if they possess university degrees, TEFL, etc.?

Thanks,

Jeff

Hi,

I have seen many teaching positions in the THB 35-40k per month range, mostly in public schools for children. I have heard rumors that one could earn 120,000 THB per month teaching corporate English to business people if they are qualified.

Is this realistic?

What could one realistically earn if they possess university degrees, TEFL, etc.?

Thanks,

Jeff

50-60K in a regular school (EP) - perhaps more if they are desperate or in a specialist subject area. With proper teaching qualifications - yes 120K like you mentioned, thouse this would be near a maximum in a top international school. Corporate I have no idea. I doubt you could get 120K a month though, unless you were werking several hours every night at 1000 bt an hour.

Where is the best place to look for these high-end jobs?

Hi,

I have seen many teaching positions in the THB 35-40k per month range, mostly in public schools for children. I have heard rumors that one could earn 120,000 THB per month teaching corporate English to business people if they are qualified.

Is this realistic?

What could one realistically earn if they possess university degrees, TEFL, etc.?

Thanks,

Jeff

50-60K in a regular school (EP) - perhaps more if they are desperate or in a specialist subject area. With proper teaching qualifications - yes 120K like you mentioned, thouse this would be near a maximum in a top international school. Corporate I have no idea. I doubt you could get 120K a month though, unless you were werking several hours every night at 1000 bt an hour.

Where is the best place to look for these high-end jobs?

Hi,

I have seen many teaching positions in the THB 35-40k per month range, mostly in public schools for children. I have heard rumors that one could earn 120,000 THB per month teaching corporate English to business people if they are qualified.

Is this realistic?

What could one realistically earn if they possess university degrees, TEFL, etc.?

Thanks,

Jeff

50-60K in a regular school (EP) - perhaps more if they are desperate or in a specialist subject area. With proper teaching qualifications - yes 120K like you mentioned, thouse this would be near a maximum in a top international school. Corporate I have no idea. I doubt you could get 120K a month though, unless you were werking several hours every night at 1000 bt an hour.

www.tes.co.uk They advertise for qualified teachers though. If you have a teaching credential, PGCE, AND some experience teaching in a western school, they you have a reasonable shot at a top international school (bearing in mind the multitude of applications that they get).

Schools like Assumption and BCC still pay well, and will take unqualified candidates if they cant get qualified ones. here i refer to qualified as those who can teach in a school back home; not qualified in the eyes of MoE (which, in theory, require a bachelor degree). Still 45-60K is still doable in an english program here.

I think that by salary, we mean monthly regular payment by a single employer, not including after-hours private tutoring. As others have already said, you probably need Western teaching credentials, with experience, preferably in a special field, not just EFL or ESL.

Thanks for the answers, you guys.  Like I said before, I have two university computing degrees (Bachelors and Masters) but I never bothered to get a teaching credential.  That is only required here in the USA if you teach for public school and, frankly, the pay and conditions were less than desireable so I only worked in private schools (not required).  I have many years private tutoring experience, one year teaching advanced kids, and two years teaching adult night school.  The majority of my career has been spent doing software engineering (although I have been required to provide on-the-job training to new employees).

Perhaps I could get a better job doing computer training rather than english teaching?  Either way, I would at least like to get 60k a month plus accomodations.  I heard most of these jobs are less than 40 hours a week.  Does that mean I could theoretically earn more with "private lessons"?

Thanks,

Jeff

I think that by salary, we mean monthly regular payment by a single employer, not including after-hours private tutoring. As others have already said, you probably need Western teaching credentials, with experience, preferably in a special field, not just EFL or ESL.

Thanks for the answers, you guys.  Like I said before, I have two university computing degrees (Bachelors and Masters) but I never bothered to get a teaching credential.  That is only required here in the USA if you teach for public school and, frankly, the pay and conditions were less than desireable so I only worked in private schools (not required).  I have many years private tutoring experience, one year teaching advanced kids, and two years teaching adult night school.  The majority of my career has been spent doing software engineering (although I have been required to provide on-the-job training to new employees).

Perhaps I could get a better job doing computer training rather than english teaching?  Either way, I would at least like to get 60k a month plus accomodations.  I heard most of these jobs are less than 40 hours a week.  Does that mean I could theoretically earn more with "private lessons"?

Thanks,

Jeff

I think that by salary, we mean monthly regular payment by a single employer, not including after-hours private tutoring. As others have already said, you probably need Western teaching credentials, with experience, preferably in a special field, not just EFL or ESL.

You can always earn more with private lessons. In fact, if you do the numbers, you will realise that you can earn way more by just doing private lessons. If you Work out what you actually earn per hour at a school, It wont be much for the time you spend at school (not the in class teaching time which is sometimes next to nothing - I was at school from 7:30 - 4:30 and only taught 18 x 40min classes a week! thats 2:24 a day on average). Nonetheless, I was still at school the rest of the time to get my 45K. So say there are 22 working days per month, so thats 2045 THB per day on 45K. Based on that, my hourly teaching rate would have been about 850 THB per hour, but, my actual hourly rate including all the time I was at school was only about 255 THB per hour. The problem is, it could take you a long time to build up a list of clients long enough to just rely on private teaching. Anyway, lets say you charge 750 per hour, you will only have to work and teach for 4 hours a day to get 3000 per day, that's 66000 PM there just working M-F or 22 days per month. If you charge 1000 per hour because you teach your specialized subject, you would get 4000 a day, or 88,000 PM. However, like I said before, unless you are good and have lots of clients who keep comming back and keep bringing friends along, private work might be un-reliable. Most people do private work on the side to top up their school salary of 35-50K on average.