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

• REALITY CHECK: OTHER PROGRAM’S PUBLICITY

• Other TEFL programs, who don’t teach English and don’t have the “Know How” and extensive experience that Canterbury English has, say you can earn between 20-25 Euros an hour (an average of 22,50€) fresh of the boat with no experience for private classes. Why would anyone in Spain want to pay between 22-23 Euros an hour, when there are thousands of English teacher jobs in Madrid charging less.

• Jonathan Clarke, brother of the founder, charges 20 Euros an hour for his classes.  He has taught in Taiwan, Japan and Spain for twenty years and is an expert, professional English teacher. Johnny, a University professor from Cal Poly California, with 25 years experience in Madrid, charges 20 Euros an hour for his private classes.

• Canterbury English, almost 30 years in the market with all the resources and guarantees of a Professional English Academy, charges 21 Euros an hour for a bilingual teacher and between 21 and 24 Euros an hour for a native teacher. So how can a TEFL graduate with no experience charge 20-25 Euros an hour? That might be true in an advertising bubble world, but not here in Madrid. Reality checks are better to have before you arrive than after you get here! We don’t want someone pouring a beer over our heads at pub night!

• On than note, after our reality check, here’s the truth, the real deal that, as it seems, only CE will tell you: A private bilingual English teacher usually charges from 10-15 Euros an hour and a native English teacher, 15-20 Euros an hour (depending on your experience). Once in a while you might get a “good gig” for whatever reason, and be able to charge more, but these are the exceptions, not the rule.

• MONTHLY SALARY

• Let’s say, to be safe, you’re teaching 20 hours a week at 16 Euros the hour (again to be safe). If you do 4 weeks of classes that’s 80 hours a month * 16 = 1280 Euros. You can add to this any extra hours over 20 that you do as well as ETS (Extra Travel Supplements, quite a few classes have an ETS). You would add to this the extra days in a month. For example a month has 4 weeks and three days or two days or one day.

• You would have to subtract from this amount any business or bank holidays as well as school holidays. For example at Christmas you earn less money because of the holidays. The same happens during the Easter holidays as well.  But basically this gives you a ballpark idea about what you can earn, subject to many variations.

• Private classes cancel more, but as an English school we have very strict makeup rules (designed by teachers and for teachers and therefore stacked on our side of the balance) so that the teacher losses as few classes as possible during the month. Often you actually make more money with a Canterbury English class that pays 16 Euros than your own class that pays at 20 Euros an hour.

• The reason is that we have a contract with the students and they have to pay for all the classes, no matter what and this means they are very keen on doing makeup classes for a class they cancelled for illness or whatever reason. They have a month to make the class up and you get paid for it.

• If there is any problem, we call and remind them about the rules and contract they have signed with us and this keeps the student in line and keeps you pay check safe! With your own privates it’s difficult to avoid cancellations and students don’t usually bother about making the class up, so you lose the class.

• If your own client cancels a lot with no make ups then we advise you to drop them and open up that slot to a safer Canterbury English class. Anything over a thousand euros is considered a decent wage in Spain.

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