Is this one of Yuncheng EV's adverts?

6000RMB Oral English teachers wanted in Yuncheng(Polish, south Africans,and new graduated or about to are welcome)

That is a Yuncheng English Village ad.

5000rmb? Apply elsewhere. The pollution is bad, the food and water are toxic and fake, and EV are lying, con artist, grifter, crooks.

The students pay x amount of money each for this, this goes to the agent and probably some to the school, out of this the foreign teachers salary is paid plus other capital costs. I can assure you though that what the foreign teacher gets is less than 25% of the actual money stream involved. The local students are forbidden to tell the foreign teachers how much they pay (of course they do as they all think we are millionaires as they can do simple mathematics).

Here is the breakdown of the business model.

Students pay twice a year for various extra activities, one of them is the foreign oral spoken English teacher.

If you can figure out when breaks end and the students return on Sunday afternoon, walk on campus into one of the teachers' lounges. There you will see dept heads with a 100 Yuan counter machine, and stacks of cash. This is them collecting the fee for your classes, among other things.

Each student pays 150 rmb per semester, two semesters a year, for English classes.

You will have from 16 to 22 classes, 55 to 75 students in each class.

16 x 55 x 150 x 2 = 240.000
22 x 75 x 150 x 2 = 495.000

360.000 is the median for most local schools, it depends on the number of students and some poorer schools pay less per student.

Your pay and bonus will be 56.000.
Your TA will be paid 12.000 for the year.
The remainder goes to EV.
You get about 20% of your billing rate. The Chinese business multiplier is 5 or more.

BUT...200k of it, from each school, goes to the local education bureau as 'fees' or 'permits'.

The headmaster gets his fat packet, too. Dept heads, and so on.

Yuncheng English Village won't allow other schools to pay more than 6500 to 7000. They threaten others.

So it's up to you if you want to work in a place like that.

If you have a cert and degree and experience and perhaps your QTS and are a NQT, you can work anywhere on this planet, for more money and food that won't kill you.

If you want The China Experience, even knowing all of this, you certainly will get it in Yuncheng.