What English teaching job has annual bonuses in Japan?

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1. Anything seishain

2. Check JALT jobs for private school gigs. Otherwise its pretty hard to get seishain as an English teacher. At least not without getting lots of qualifications and experience and climbing the university ladder.

3. Private junior high and high schools would be the best bet. In my current school I got summer and winter bonuses on my one-year ALT contracts. And I now get much better bonuses with my tenured contract

4. Seishain position at a bigger company and I get this, but it took me four years to get here.

5. >I want a better paying job.

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   Are you working on professional development to make yourself more marketable?

6. Direct hire ALT (keiyakushain) or teacher at public or private schools usually pay out bonuses.

7. A private school i worked had gave out bonuses but full for the Japanese teachers and only half for me. Pretty shit considering i had to attend on Saturdays and after school. I quit after a year.

8. The eikaiwa I used to work at paid 280,000 a month and 1 small bonus a year.

9. 280,000 yen a month plus bonuses is sadly pretty high for English teaching in 2023.

10. My private school has 2 bonuses a year. They have a few other amenities. Feel free to PM me

11. Full time university jobs usually have bonuses.

12. I work for a large public uni, bonus is a set part of my package.

    No bonus is a red flag and a sign of a “black” company. The bonus is so standard that most Japanese people won’t take a job if it isn’t detailed in the contract. The pretend teaching jobs for migrant workers are scams and never include bonuses. If you want a bonus, do what is required to become a real teacher.

13. My uni job does 2x yearly bonuses

14. How are you making yourself more valuable?

    I would find a niche if I were you, and focus on professional development.

15. It depends on whether you’re here long term or planning to leave Japan.

    I started as an ALT but once I realized I wanted to stay here forever I enrolled at Nihon University’s distance learning teacher certification program. It took three years but once I got an actual teaching license and my school made me a 正社員 I started receiving a pretty good bonus. A few years later I moved schools and got an even better package.

    I’m 44. My pay is roughly 400,000/mo, paid overtime, and a 6.2mo bonus.

    HOWEVER, I am also a homeroom teacher with 38 kids to manage. That’s phonecalls home, parent-teacher meetings, school trips, etc. At this point I don’t really consider it an English teaching job. I’m a school teacher who’s subject just happens to be English, but it’s nowhere near the biggest part of what I do. So more pay, but way, way more work.

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17. I make about that much and get bonuses three times a year. I’m at a publicly-funded, privately owned nursery school. I’d recommend looking for jobs at that type of school.