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Originally Posted by baddog
Don't you have to know Thai to do that?
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If you want to teach at an expensive private school then yes, but most english teachers at typical thai schools can only speak rudimentary thai, at least when they start.
Typical salary for an english teacher in thailand is about 30K baht per month (around $1k US) or even less if it's a shitty school in the provinces. Which is probably more than a typical Thai makes but not a very fun life at all.
If you teach at a good private school then you're looking at 50-60K baht ($2K US) which is a decent standard of living provided you don't want to do expensive things in your spare time. A friend of mine teaches at the Anglo-Singapore school in Bangkok ($5-10K USD a year per child primary / intermediate school) and gets paid 50K baht / month.
Corporate trainers can make more but obviously the competition is very high and one would need experience.
In any case english teachers are the bottom of the barrel of farang society in Thailand.
Thailand is full of degenerate sex monger english teachers who decided that scraping together a subsistence living as an english teacher was a way to keep their dream whore mongering thailand holiday alive.