And running the numbers on a couple of others...

There is one that says they will pay you 8000 a month. Figuring you work about 20 hours a week (which I saw elsewhere as pretty standard), that would mean about 170 hours work a month? 8000/170 = 47 kuai per hour....

Am I missing something there? Maybe teachers only count teaching hours and half the time is spent preparing?

4 week month x 20 hrs does not equal 170 hrs.

Many places are only 16 hrs a month in the public sector.
Did the employer offer accom or housing allowance, flights, visa, paid holidays, etc.?
For a full time gig you need to look at the whole package.
See my post above.

hahah...somebody needs a math teacher!

@debaser

Does Kunming have a lot of...

Students >>> Check
Backpackers>>> Check
Barflies>>> Check
Visa whores>>> Check

Though 100rmb might even be too small for them (or you can hope). That doesn't even buy a bus ticket to the next town.

Ha haa, yes a rather large miscalculation! It should be 90 hours... I was still working on a 40 hour week, duh! Which makes it about 90 kuai an hour. So in some jobs, the accomo and flight home would be huge factors.

What's the accommodation like that is normally provided? Does that range from basic to really nice? Do most teachers stay in the accommodation they are given?

Hang on a second! 8000 a year... If you were to get 4 weeks off on holidays, this means working 960 hours based on a 20 hour week. 8k per month equals a yearly salary of 96k. This translates to exactly 100 kuai an hour. This must be how they arrive at the figure.

Based on the accom I have had, and have visited. For foreign teachers the accom is checked by local PSB to make sure that it is up to code, and confirm that the foreign devil actually resides there.

Usually on campus. Usually self contained apartment, from one to three bedrooms. Decor usually basic but in a good state of repair. Sometimes a squat toilet in older accom.
In one KMG school the teachers were in a seperate block. I had a good sized room, bed, desk, and en-suite bathroom. Like single person accom in a western uni. Reasonable standard of decor. In another KMG school, teachers had a seperate floor. Studio apartment. New building, reasonable decor.

The new smaller accommodation that I have seen is all in the new campuses. Possibly because most foreign teachers are single. In the older places you may share the same buildings as local teachers who have families, and so the aparments are bigger. When I was in one city, in a 70s concrete buiding, I had over 100sqm, large kitchen, large lounge-dining room and 3 bedrooms, small bathroom, 2 balconies. This was on campus.

Some private teaching ventures are also based within a public school and accom will be to public school standards.

Off campus. I have seen one shared teachers apartment. Each teacher gets their own room. Decor moderate. Private ventures often have this.
In the private venture the apartment is often owned by the school/owner. As such they will have bought it as a personal investment. It won't be too shabby.

In the countryside the standards can be a bit lower, but will still be above average for the local area.

I know that there will be excetions, but I have never seen any. I have taught here for almost 10 years now.

20 x 4 ....is not 90 ....just saying!

you guys are so cheap

u are westners,,just a teacher,doesnt make u special anyway,expect we pay more?go get some special skills !