Love Tefl Hate The Pay.

Love Tefl Hate The Pay.

Last updated: 7/2008

experience the region you find yourself in!!

Hi,

Dear fellow English teacher, my name is Christopher John and in the next few minutes I’m going to show you how you can be on your way to becoming the highest paid EFL teacher in your area and double or even triple your income in a shorter time than you ever thought was possible.

Are you enjoying life? Why are YOU here?

We are all English teachers abroad for one or more of these reasons: you either love travelling, you can save more money here than you could back home while having new experiences or you wish to be able to live in the country and teaching is the easiest way in. Even if, shock horror, you love teaching children then one of the reasons mentioned above will still resonate with you or you would be a teacher in your home country. We all know the benefits of TEFL. Often new teachers arrive thinking they are going to be paid to have a glorified holiday and save a big chunk of change. This isn’t the case and you know it. Teaching can be physically and mentally demanding… and that’s without taking your co-workers or even worse your boss into account! If the school even cares about your level of teaching ability then it is very unlikely that it will translate into higher pay it might mean more work though… unpaid of course!

Private students?

Is it any wonder that so many teachers see private lessons as a way of supplementing their income? If you are one of them then you will know the downside of private lessons. The frequent cancellations, the fact that you can only charge a bit more than you’re teaching hourly rate at your job in the school, that in many countries it is illegal and the difficulty in making it across town to different appointments. All in all the shear unpredictability and not being able to rely on private tuition as a guaranteed source of income is intensely frustrating.

The amount of TEFL pay you are able to save is attractive at first... but it won't continue to look so good year after year!

Then there’s the future. TEFL is often seen as a young, mature or single persons game because can a TEFL wage (or even two) really support two adults and however many children come along? Babies are expensive and private (Western style) schools are even more so. You can’t realistically let your kids be educated anywhere other than a private school in many regions. What about when you are physically unable to teach any longer? Do you earn enough to save for retirment, buy a house or fly home to see the family every few years? The pay may be decent if you’re fresh out of college with student loans to pay, but after a few years (or decades) of having only a minimal pay raise if you’re lucky it becomes clear that difficult decisions have to be made. Many teachers don’t want to quit the TEFL world, they love it and the countries it enables them to live in. They just hate the pay!

But wait... ...

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