TEFL Lessons Learned – earnings

I know this post is a bit behind the rest of the Lessons Learned series, but I wanted to wait until my February pay and holiday pay came through before posting.

What I earned in eight months of teaching English in France:

Month	BTL –   Net salary	Other	Comments	Monthly total
July	€694.52	–	Summer	€694.52
August	€943.90	–	Summer, started advertising for private students	€943.90
September	€1291.63	€225	Patrizio, a private student, started	€1516.93
October	€1067.58	€110	One week on holiday and Patrizio also went away. Still advertising.	€1177.58
November	€1199.27	€125	Patrizio was away. Still advertising.	€1324.27
December	€1106.11	€40	One week on holiday and Patrizio was away. Still advertising.	€1146.11
January	€701.25	€670	BTL stopped giving me new classes. Patrizio was back and Sebastien, a new private student, started. Also did short term work – 15 hours of admin for American Amanda and two exam prep. sessions with Damien, a private student.	€1371.25
February	€320.16	€500	32  BTL hours (ouch), and Patrizio and Sebastien continued	€850.16
Holiday Pay	€990.36		Paid in full at the end of the year/contract	€960.36
			Total for eight months	€9986.08
			Average monthly salary	€1248.14

Other gifts from students:

• Drinks (tea, hot chocolate, a pineapple juice, water)
• Biscuits
• Various individual chocolates
• 1 box of chocolates
• 1 tub of moisturiser wrapped in red paper with gold ribbon
• 2 French novels
• 1 book of French idioms
• A notebook (with horizontal lines!)
• Countless pencils

If I add my February pay and holiday leave to the money I had when I left Paris, I finished with €2030.52 left for my trip, which works out to €29 a day.

I was hoping to have a little more but, as I’ve already paid for flights, everything I have can go towards trains, shelter, food and fun!

€694.52
€943.90
€1291.63
€1067.58
€1199.27
€1106.11
€701.25
€325
€1000