Lastly, the salary is well above the average Singaporean. Teachers in a local school who have much larger class numbers and work much longer hours get about $2800-3000
8 years ago, SGD3000 was the starting salary (i.e. for a fresh university graduate with no teaching experience) for some of my Singaporean male (they get paid more than females) friends who became teachers in government schools here. they're now earning far more than that.
Hi Littlebluediamond,
I am quite interested to know which of the 3 points I made amounted to misinformation. I am not sure a difference of opinion amounts to misinformation. Do clarify or apologise. Thanks.
My experience is different to Littlebluediamond, and to me the misinformation is in that post, not mine.
But each to their own.
I just came on this query about teaching English in Singapore during a casual search. I see the post is from 2010 but am unable to resist entering a reply. I have not done research on the English teaching job market in Singapore but anyone who has responded with a derisive gibe citing that there is general English speaking fluency there is all talk- no knowledge. I have spent a good deal of time in Singapore during the past decade and can tell you that it is a multilingual environment and many, many people do not understand English.