So a friend of mine who works for a public school told me about a pay increase… it’s not much, like an extra 3000 NT per month. But good that they are raising it after staying still for an entire decade, and some acknowledgement about rising costs and inflation. He sent me the new pay scale, which you can see attached here.
I certainly hope that this will set a precedent and get the MOE to also raise the pay scale for university teachers, which is abysmally low.
I haven’t signed my new contract yet. So I sent a message to my recruiter to see if it’s true. Man I hope so, it will help offset losing the 2,000 bonus
Also remember that this does not include the housing money… which I believe has remained the same. So 5k for unmarried, 10k for married. If you have a PhD, 15 years of experience and are married, you could top out at just a little over 110k per month! Living large!
15years to make what some sticky ball gods do in 5years?
It just funny how the public schools advertise you have to have a teaching license to qualify for the position. What a load of piss…how do they fill them? Why would anybody with a proper k-12 license go work in a taiwan public school over a proper international school? When I say proper international school, I’m not talking about your religious school under the guise of an international school…im talking your tier 1 INT schools.
The only reason I plan on switching is because I want to teach PE and Science. Plus I don’t feel like being at work 9am-7pm.
Shoutout to people that do sticky ball BS for years. My body can’t handle those hours nor nonsense.
I’m teaching, history, geography, and ElA next semester so I think this is not so true anymore.
I’ve been making my own lessons based on training I got getting my license and working in public school in America.
I’ve only played games as review before exams. Outside of that (and a lunch time club I set up for English games) I teach writing, literature, and journalism (those are the classes last semester plus toeic exam practice and an American culture class that was voluntary in the evening)
Oh and I coteach subjects like math and science with a local teacher
yeah but why would you work in a public school if you have a proper teaching license? why not international school for big money?
I get you enjoy the subjects you get to teach, and will take less $ in order to do that because sticky balling is dull as shit.