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The people who is qualifued to teach technology related subject (solor power. semiconductor, etc) will get at least double pay in western world than in Taiwan for the same job.
In fact English teachers are probably the only jobs that make sense for foreigners to come work in Taiwan. (And Spanish teachers from south/central America, French teachers from the carribeans and Africa ).
The foreigners who come teaching English in Taiwan makes more money than flipping burgers in their native countries. Of course if someone claims he/she loves to live in Taiwan, and is willing to make whatever salaries and do whatever jobs, those are the exceptions.
Do you end up with more extra money living in Taiwan vs back home?
Depending on where āback homeā is. In suburb or rural America, the housing is quite affordable and the minimum wage is at least the federal minimum wage.
Thatās true for all jobs. Nobody comes to Taiwan from the West for higher pay. But itās ok because cost of living here is much lower.
Also, this law is referring to cram schools, so the ātechnical subjectsā are probably stuff like Math, Physicals, Computer Science, and Biology, etc. What cram school teaches semiconductor and solar power?
Why would someone with a Bachelorās degree and a ESL certificate be flipping burgers in their home country? In the US, such people would be teaching ESL to immigrant kids in inner city school districts.
Federal minimum wage is very low, like 7.25. You canāt live in rural America on that. But I donāt think many jobs pay that, Walmart for example pays at least 10 dollars an hour, but itās still not a lot.
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foreign teachers of regular schools are categoried differently from teachers of Short-term Supplementary Learning Centers.
Oh. This whole time we werenāt even talking about cram schools? 
So the $48k minimum required pay basically doesnāt even apply to most people at all. Thatās funny because I asked in another thread a long time ago if foreign teachers in Taiwan get higher pay than locals, and people seemed to think so:
cram schools are Short-term Supplementary Learning Centers too.
Oh ok. Well, in that case we can just say cram school to avoid confusion. I bet 99.99% of āshort-term supplementary learning centersā in Taiwan are cram schools.
Cram school literally means supplementary learning center in Chinese.
A lot of them will have short term or long term in their company name too.
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By the way, why would cram schools hire foreigners to teach technical subjects? They would need to have pretty good Chinese to teach those topics, wouldnāt they?
Who would send their kids to cram school to study those subjects in English?
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Ah ok. These are more like adult learning schools or ābootcampsā.
Because most cram schools donāt actually care about education. They care that their parents send children there.
They do this by claiming to create a foreign environment and all that so to give parents the benefit of living in the us without the immigration headache and crimes and whatnot.
Who cares if chemistry is being taught by someone who donāt actually know chemistry, in a language that the school isnāt teaching in?
Itās basically a place for parents to drop toddlers at before they start school, or older kids at because the parent must work overtime and they donāt want them coming home early and playing video games.
There are also test prep centers for kids from international schools etc. intending to take subject tests in English.
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you affirmed, so maybe you know the basis the WDA does not approve English teaching salaries at minimum wage. HongKoner also claimed there is a minimum salary of 48k, but it seems he doesnt know the source. could you let us know it?
i feel it is strange that the minimum salary requirement is not written in the work permit manual for buxiban english teachers, as it is an important criterion they should meet. or, if you mean the wda is setting an unwritten arbitrary requirment, that may be another issue.
I guess now I know why Taiwanese teachers are paid much less than foreign onesā¦ they literally canāt get a foreigner ARC if they donāt pay that wage.
I think theyād pay a lot less if they could get away with it.
And Taiwanese on the other hand, all they have to pay is the minimum wage.
I thought the minimum salary to obtain ARC for foreign ESL teachers was $48k but I guess I might be wrong. There doesnāt seem to be a minimum requirement.
Thatās for the APRC.
Ah that might be where the confusion came from. Someone must have thought I was asking about APRC.