Native English teachers who have worked for ten years are receiving the exact same pay as when they first started. Regardless of experience or ability, our pay has remained the same.
To add to this insult, inexperienced teaching assistants are being hired from abroad in the separate national JET Program with bonuses totaling approximately 300,000 yen/year over our salaries. Unskilled recent graduates are getting paid more than current skilled and trained native English teachers. This is simply wrong.
Receiving no bonuses or pay raises, an average of 20 percent of Osaka-fu Native English teachers leave every year. That’s a 60% turnover in staff every three years. Many NET teachers are married and are raising families. This is difficult to do on the current salary.
If Osaka-fu wants to keep good, experienced native English teachers, it is time to start paying them better.
３、定期昇級の実施 １０年働いたネイティブの英語教師は、新任の教師と給料は同じです。経験や能力関係なしに給料は同じなのです。 私たちのこの状況にもかかわらず、海外からの未経験のJET教員が、３０万円の特別手当をもらって、来日します。彼らのような未熟な大卒が、私たちより高い給料をもらっています。これは、間違っています。 ボーナスや昇級もない中で、平均毎年２０％の大阪府ネイティブの教員が離職していきます。多くのNETは結婚し家族を養っています。今の給料では、これは困難です。 もし大阪府が、良質で経験あるネイティブの英語教員を抱えようとするなら、給与改善に踏み出す時期が今です。