Yannic, the "low salary" is the minimum of what is required for an extension based on employment.

This is the "declared" salary with the "real salary" paid tax free offshore.

if that would be the case, everything would be good, but I guess it is the miority that works like that...

TEFL'ers aside a lot of Expats here on a packaged salary work exactly like that, not a minority all.

Yannic,

I have to ask... what is the nature of your company?

No minimum salary required to gain a work permt, although some labor offices do seem now to require this.

That is absolutely correct Mario. Despite the National Labour Office not requiring a minimum salary, some local labour offices (eg Prachuap) seem to have taken it upon themselves to impose the salary guidelines for WP issue, specified by the immigration bureau for an extension of stay based on business.

So who, in these local labout offices, has the power to overide the National rules?