Dalian Travel Forum

Hi Folks

My wife and I are planning to move to Dalian from London in August. We are in the process of organising work and I'm wondering just what is a decent wage and what will have us scrimping. We are both teachers and will be teaching English, the plan is for a year. We have been offerd between 3 and 4,000 yuan but other institutions in other parts of China have offered between 7 and 10,000 which sounds much better but I really fancy the sound of Daliian.
I hope someone can help because I am anticipating a call from our contact in the next day or so and I suspect he'll want to talk about money, I don't want to ask for too much but at the same time I don't want to sell ourselves short.
Many thanks for taking the time to read this

regards

IH

You need to clarify the entire employment package by asking about things like housing and transportation.
4000 yuan is fine in Dalian if the package includes housing and other benefits.
If you can make double that wage (8000 RMB or higher) in other parts of China then you should have mentioned exactly where those offers are located.
I can't think of many places in China that are so horrible that even a 10,000 RMB wage would not sound attractive. Shenzhen is one, Shenyang is another. Other than those two nasty cities (the armpits of China) there are few in which a 10,000 RMB salary would not be delightful.

4000RMB has been the amount most foreigners I know are earning where I am living (a smallish provincial town on the yangtze) for very few hours indeed. This usually covers living on campus in generally cramped quarters, sharing a kitchen, sometimes even sharing a bathroom. There are much better packages around but if you're really keen on Dalian in particularwhich is , by all accounts one of the more pleasant cities in china, .... up to you?

As the others have said, check the package.

It sounds a little cheap to me, as I am earning 6000 a month in a place that is nowhere as nice as Dalien, but I suppose that it's the law of supply and demand. The less attractive the coty the higher the wages.

Dalien is nice, but it has very little history and is a long way from everywhere, you have a 4 hour train ride to Shenyang beffore you can even consider visiting the rest of china.

If you want any info on teaching in China etc then feel free to contact me

Yso

Oh, and by the way, if the package includes accomodation (with electricity, ga etc) and pays for your airfare, then 4000 is easily enough to live on in China, but you probably won't save any money

Yso

Me again, I Hope that's 4000 each?

changed days...!when i was there they were paying me more than western salaries!pre 95..ill stay here,,thanks