WHAT SALARY CAN I EXPECT TO RECEIVE IN ENGLISH TEACHER JOBS?

WAGES AT CANTERBURY ENGLISH

CE’s classes are private English classes in homes and businesses in Madrid.

1. CE classes pay from 18-25€ an hour (see above, “Continuing to guarantee you a job for more details”).

2. Before 2020, CE paid the academy market price for a private class of 16+€/hr. and
earned a profit to pay for office expenses.

3. From fall 2020, when the CE English academy became non-profit, CE now pays 18-25€/hr,
because the client pays the teacher directly with no middle man.

WAGES AT OTHER ACADEMIES FOR ENGLISH TEACHER JOBS IN MADRID

With other academies there are three types of classes:

      1. Private classes (like CE’s): 14-16€/hr.

      2. Block hours: 12-16€/hr.

      3. Monthly Salary: 1100-1300€/month for 25-30 hours a week of teaching.

PRIVATE CLASS WAGES  

      1. The going rate for private classes
in Madrid is 20€ an hour for new teachers.

      2. Veteran teachers charge between 20-30€ an hour

These English teacher jobs in Madrid prices are based on a one-on-one class. You can charge more if you have more students in the class, or if you need to charge a distance supplement (ETS: Extra Travel Supplement) for classes further away.

See the above, “Continuing to guarantee you a job for more details” and adapt the CE pay scale table to what you want to charge.

Here’s an easy example to help you:

a) A one-on-one with CE would be 18€ an hour.

b) For two students in the same class for CE, it would be 22€ an hour (+4€).

c) Let’s say that you decide to charge 22€ an hour for a one-on-one.

d) Then you would add 4€ for two students in the class.

e) 22€ + 4€ = 26€.

f) You would be earning 26€ an hour for the class with two students.   

g) It is quite common to have two students in a class (2 friends, 2 brothers, 2
neighbours, 2 workmates, etc.) and therefore it is important that you are very
clear on your own wage table (copy CE’s and adapt it to your prices, like in
the example above) and that way when you get the phone call, you can
immediately take out your price table and adapt it to the number of students, location
of the class, etc.

h) What you can’t do is quote them a price and then realize later that it should be higher
(you check the wage table later) and you call them back to change the price.

i) This is why it’s important to have the wage table calculated before hand and have it
with you, so that you can always quote them the right price from the beginning.

j) Remember, if there are two students in a class, they don’t mind paying more, because they
are going to split the cost and the class is cheaper for them this way. And you
should earn more, because it’s not the same teaching one student as teaching two
students.

k) The key here is to be prepared before-hand and quote them the right price and land your
new client at almost double the price an Academy will pay you for block hours.

l) This way you have more spending money for your life in Spain and so it’s definitely worth
drumming up your own clients and CE will show you exactly how to do this in Work
Orientation.

COMPANY CLASS WAGES

1) If you find the company client by yourself, you can charge a company more than you would charge a private class.

2) In this case, talk to us at CE and we will share our company wage table with you, so
that you can charge the same.

3) Just as an example, we charge a company 25€ an hour for one-on-one classes and 39€ for a group of four (and we charge quite a lot less than other academies) and we would encourage you to charge the same as we do.

ONLINE WAGES

In Spain you can charge more or less the same for online classes as in-person classes and the advantage is that you don’t leave home and so there is no travel time wasted. But, as in all online jobs, you are behind the computer all day at home giving class, instead of being in a real classroom setting with real people in front of you. Some teachers prefer this and others don’t.

However, in general, Spaniards don’t like online classes and prefer in-person classes and so if you are mainly teaching online in Madrid, some of your clients may be Spanish, but most will be from other countries where they don’t mind or sometimes even prefer online classes. So either you market yourself or you sign up for an online platform.

If you get your own clients, you can charge more or less what you would charge here in Madrid in person.

If you are with an online platform the wages vary tremendously from 10€ an hour to 20€ an hour, depending on the platform.

In Canterbury English Work Orientation, you will find out more about online platforms and you can sign up for them. We advise let you know that it’s a good idea to have some online padding with other countries that don’t have the same holiday schedule as the Spanish. Or other countries that don’t mind having English classes on the weekends, because the Spanish don’t usually want classes on the weekends. 

CATHOLIC SCHOOL WAGES

Your monthly salary for a 25-hour week is about 1200€

SUMMER, FALL AND SPRING CAMP WAGES

You are paid 600€ for every two week period.