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Q: When is the last time your Chinese counterparts go a pay raise?

I work at the best high school in a small city of less than 500,000 people. The local English teachers here have not gotten a pay raise in the last 10 years. I this typical or is there something odd going on here?

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salarys is china have been stagnant for a long time , yes its typical , the salary at my high school and university for teachers has not been raised for at least 3 years ive been here, perhaps longer. the real problem is getting paid on time. one school i worked for, the teachers got paid jan 15 and then after spring fesitival april 15 for febuary and march. no money for the holiday and live on your savings till april. great motivation for teaching.

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I don't know, we don't talk about that. I do know a Chinese girl working at a kindergarten who told me she got a raise of  100 RMB per month. Seriously. How do you reply? I don't know.

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In our company is same. I am here 2 years, starting the 3rd year, and did not raise a 1kuai yet. some chinese coworkers have raised by 200rmb last year, but I think it was due national increase of minimum wages. When I asked my manager, he said in other words : "Just shut up, do not ask nothing, do not bring attention to you from others. every month you got your salary while most of the time you do nothing." But is not my fault they have not enough work for me, I am not happy either. 

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It wasn't too long ago...maybe a year or so ago?  The government increased the maximum allowed salary without having to pay income taxes from 3000 to 3500 rmb/month.  Whenever they did that, most of my colleagues' salaries also increased from 3000 to 3500 rmb/month.

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One of my counter parts told me they been at the company for 5 yrs never got a pay raise. I also talked to a 20 something yr old girl once that was supposedly working at a school I was working at, but she told me she had been working there for 10 years!!! No pay raise! The last story was odd because the girl would have supposedly started working when she was barely 15!

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So being Chinese, did you get a pay raise?

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There are cookies, bookies and too many rookies for me to sit here trying to be a hooky! Looky Looky don't call me a wooky. Touchy Touchy Feely Feely Spicy Spicy Nicey Nicey & that's what the doctor Ordered!!

 
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It's a bit sad, how little China thinks of it's own teachers. The rate of  inflation has cut their real income in half in the last 7 or 8 years. The upside is that they can retire fairly early, although I think that will be changed all to soon.

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do they deserve a pay raise? being incompetent, jealous and lazy needs to be rewarded?

 

 

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you need to check you question before you post it. You like many so called English teachers in China need to be able to at least know basic English. Franck3

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Who cares? I only worry about me, me and me.

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