Love Tefl Hate The Pay.

Love Tefl Hate The Pay.

Last updated: 7/2008

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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...
It wouldn’t be so bad if you could work fewer hours for better money. If you knew how to get employers to be willing to pay you more without using a crowbar to pry it out of their cold, dead and oh so cheap hands! If you were able to find privates who were reliable, willing to pay in advance and think nothing of you charging three times the usual rate. If there was a way to make some of those well connected clients see you as their peer and be more than willing to help you overcome obstacles like visa or property issues.

Oh Yes It Can!

The good news is you can do all this! Today can be the first day of the rest of your life. Whether you use the money to fund travel, to ensure that you can remain an expat forever, to fund a higher degree, to live life to the full or even for a flight straight back home it will all be within your grasp.

You will discover

The number one myth of better paying Tefl jobs smashed!

How YOU are forcing people to pay you less and what you can do to make people WANT to pay you more!

How to make more money by turning a pay rise down or even by taking a pay cut!

The one skill you need to be paid more than you thought possible and hold sway over your employer

Two words that will make private students willing to pay three times your current rate

How to get your boss, students and clients to stop seeing you like a resource and start seeing you as a peer

Why thousands of dollars and years at a top university studying advanced degrees are worth less than knowing this secret! It’s a five letter word that will have employers wanting to give you more money!

The thing that all teachers do wrong when negotiating a pay rise and how a change of what they say rakes in rises every time!

The one thing English teacher’s must never say in order to earn big money. 99.9% make this mistake

How to be given a portfolio of 6, 12 or even 24 students who are used to paying premium rates for English tuition

How to get the students to negotiate your pay rise for you without the employer knowing it is happening

What 3 things to look for in a school that enable you to get a substantial pay increase every few months

The word that you must NEVER use when negotiating

The one thing that can improve your teaching skills astronomically that only 2% of English teachers ever do

How much are YOU earning every hour?

How much would you like to earn?

You don’t have to buy now. Read what other English teachers have said about the secrets contained within:

I was paid $15 per hour with no raises in sight. Now I’m making $38 an hour and a $50 pay raise every 3 months for as long as I stay. There are no two ways about it- I’m doing a heck of a lot better than I was a couple of months ago - Mark Griswold

YES! You have so absolutely got the right idea. I wonder who is going to pick up on this little goldmine of yours? - Kathrine Atta

Practical, no fluff, to the point book. A very easy read but if you’re a teacher who puts the information contained into practice then you can climb the salary ladder quite quickly - Craig Murphy

A very solid approach. A successful teacher can earn a lot of money. From the employer’s point of view, teacher who does this will be paid higher for sure. Experience as seniority is not counted in schools - Sarah Wesley (DOS)

I’ve changed my way of looking at employment. Rather than looking at employment as a situation where I hope a boss will give me what I deserve, I now look at it as a situation in which I’ll earn what I want- Jack Robbins

I know a few people who make over NT$100,000 per month teaching English in Taiwan. However, their method is not very smart. It basically involves teaching as many hours per week as possible. It doesn’t take a genius to work out that teaching for 25 hours per week at NT$1,000 per hour is infinitely preferable to teaching 40 hours per week at NT$600 per hour. I like your more thoughtful approach to this problem - David Reid

Thanks again! Very practical information. I feel like I’ve been upgraded from being a Casio to a Rolex! Like my late Grandmother told me, "If all you're selling is your time, at least make su