good luck, hope everything goes okay

I work here so I'll give my opinion and take it for what it's worth to you. It's a pretty relaxed teaching environment, with fun and helpful staff and boss. You will never get cheated with your pay, so that's one thing to not have to worry about, and the classes are small in size, so classroom control is easy. Great location, great holidays also.

I just wanted to give the view of an employee.

The long hour and a half breaks between classes are not fun and 8,000 rmb for what is considered full-time teaching is skimpy. The owner skims the fat and you think you are being fairly paid. Average in Kunming, because it is a large city should range from 120 to 150 per hour.

Actually the lowest should be 150 RMB per hour. Every year the tuition rates goes up for these schools. Hard to believe some schools still want to pay you just 100 RMB per hour. Give me a break!

Should vs reality. If you are on a set salary your hourly rate depends very much on how many classes you teach. But we all know that teaching classes is not the only time we work. The thing is, foreigners still get paid a lot more than Chinese do, so we can't complain too much.

8000 a month is plenty for living in Kunming. Of course the owner skims the fat, it's a private profit-making business, that's how they work.

It all comes down to the value you place on the quality of your work. I used to work at that school and it wasn't what I wanted. And if you want to argue 8,000 rmb is enough, hell I'll state 4,000 is enough. I make 175/hr at minimum. Because that is what I value my time at. It is called supply and demand. And 8,000 a month for 20 teaching hours is the reason why I do not work at Summit any longer. I often ask why schools like Summit and i2 have such high turn over if the pay is SO great...I work for people that treat as well as pay me well. I don't compromise on that nor in the high quality of my teaching. You shouldn't have to either. We leave our countries and families and culture and language to provide a needed service in other countries. I speak on behalf of good teachers, not the drunkards that find work just because they speak native English.

Supply & demand: who are the students, and how much is the tuition?
Not at all sure that most good teachers leave there homes & languages & cultures etc. IN ORDER TO provide a needed service...nothing wrong with having other reasons, I did, I just don't think we need to feel sorry for the deprivations experienced by foreign teachers in China - although there are of course particular cases and particularly exploitative institutions, as well as general problems of education, both public and private, some of which are perhaps specific to China, others not.
But I have no experience of Summit.

@XiolaRed

I don't think the world works in a system where you're financially rewarded for leaving your country, family and language nor will that likely change in the future.

No one is forced into working 100 hours a week for a loaf of bread, but if you're starting out, never having been to China or abroad before, then this is an easy in. Once people work out they're on the bottom then they can figure out how to move up a bit in the industry and do a bit of chopping and changing. Got to earn your stripes somewhere. But be forewarned, from a Training centre in China it's a long road up.

Sounds like there may also be a bit of sour grapes towards the native speakers.

a native speaker in China is Chinese and better English teacher than Eastern Europeans, Russians, Africans, EUropeans, Americanas, Australasians, Polynesians, and now it's all about the face the above have been counting on and moaning about. Summit? It can only go down from here