Though they are well-educated individuals (and have their student loan payments to show for it), (corporate school) ESL teachers in San Francisco make between $18 and $23 per hour. While these teachers are struggling to make ends meet in one of the most expensive cities in the country and the world, their (absentee corporate) employers are making huge profits. There is no trickling down here. What is a school without its teachers? It is not a school. Who is the most important contact person for these students who come from overseas and pay huge amounts of money? Their teacher is. We teachers are extremely valuable to these schools. The schools need to recognize this and compensate us accordingly.
Are you really making $18-$23 per hour though? That sounds like a teaching rate. Do you do other work? Prep time? Staff meetings? Meetings with bosses? Grading papers and filling out student evaluations?
ReplyDeleteIf you're not getting paid $18-$23 per hour for all this work, then your wages are actually much lower.
On our blog, abetterkaplan.blogspot.com, we asked teachers to do an exercise to calculate their real rate of pay. Just take the amount you got paid for a certain period, and divide that by the amount of hours you worked (because yes, job duties that are mandatory counts as work).
The average rate of pay was around $13-$15 per hour.
http://abetterkaplan.blogspot.com/2013/05/whats-your-hourly-rate-at-kaplan.html
You make some excellent points!
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