I do feel sorry for most foreign teachers engaged by schools in China. Most recruiters and schools keep lying about the salary offered to foreign teachers. Most claim that we chinese teachers are paid less than foreign teachers, which is actually not true.

I've been teaching for 2 years now and my salary is more if not on par with 2 the foreign teachers in my school. My salary, including bonus and incentives is around 2800-3000rmb/month for 12 lesson a week. The two foreign teacher are being paid 3000 and getting 18 lessons.

Some of my older collegues are even getting more. One way for you people to find out is to look at teachers who smoke. A collegue of my told the Foreign teachers that he is only getting 1500, Rubbish. He smoke 2 packets of cigarettes a day, costing about 30rmb and that will cost him 900rmb. How could he live with 600 and month,. He has a wife , 2 children and has to feed his parents,too. What I hear is that he is getting 3600rmb.He has a motorbike and his wife has a motorised bicycle.