@@carollynt - Being an English teacher does not mean having to be so uptight that you cannot use very common colloquialisms when having a casual conversation on the street. And “where you’re at”( in life, etc.) is an extremely common phrase in English. Of course, occasionally when you do this you will be called out on it by some uptight idiot who has a stick shoved so far up his @ss that he can’t even bend over.
As a Japanese person, I can attest to the price of the bento (lunch box) I saw today at the ORIGIN shop, which is $1.94. Additionally, Japan has a national health insurance system, so going to the hospital even once costs only $10. Even the well-known acetaminophen pain reliever costs just $3 for a bottle of 20 tablets. In Japan, highly skilled foreigners also receive tax benefits.
@@Dave-zd2nl I'm not entirely sure about the details, but Japan does have a program called the Highly Skilled Foreign Professionals system, which offers tax incentives and expanded visa options. From what I know, there's an organization called JETRO that acts as a mediator between Japanese and foreign companies. JETRO holds significant influence in Japan and is a valuable resource for foreign businesses coming to Japan, as well as Japanese companies going abroad. I believe they also recruit highly skilled foreign professionals and offer guides on how to take advantage of this system. You might want to check out their "OFP List" for more information.
Japan, of course, welcomes people from all backgrounds, but please don't come from the likes of Somali.... notes:sorry,I am talking about Somali, name of a person, not the name of a country. I apologize for the misleading explanation.
The average cost of living in Japan for one person is $1,200 a month, while in the USA it's $2,213 a month. For a family to live in Japan, it costs $3,051 a month on average, compared to $5,003 in the United States. (Source: Pacific Prime)
Sounds VERY low. I taught for 5 yrs in Nagoya - and recall monthly takehome roughly double that - bubble economy - late 80's. Private lessons ~ $90/ hr. Costs - little rabbit hutch -2 rm tatami apartment ~ $2000/ month
@@erikkind1224 Interesting! So Japan's deflation crisis has made the salaries and prices be divided by two. You're not the first person making this remark in the comments.
If you’re thinking about being an English teacher in Japan, be very careful. So many (especially ALT) companies are really shady. Try to get a direct hire from a school.
In 2020, I was making ¥243k/month as a teacher. Living cost was incredibly low, job rewarding enough to make me going back to Uni to get a proper education in teaching 😍
Mr Patrick! ❤😂 been following him for a couple years now he’s hilarious and his content is so informative and i love seeing his experience as a teacher who’s afro American living in japan. Im not american and have yet to visit japan but like seeing black creators talking about that experience there. I have Japanese friends non Japanese friends who lived or live there and it fascinates me to discover japan through them. Will make my way there eventually I’ve travelled around the world quite a bit and they all say i’ll love it ❤😊
@@RoboticcOdachiWhile true, it is extremely hard for Asians and especially Japanese. This isn't like learning another Latin or Germanic language if you already had one of them. It's completely alien
Are people forgetting cost of living is different from country to country? In the US, it might be barely enough to get by. In Japan, it might be enough to cover food, housing, and maybe even a little extra. Not that I’m saying it is, since idk jack shit about Japanese economy, but not everyone is living in USA lmao.
I think he's got the numbers wrong, he didn't seem to know exactly how much he makes. The average is 280,000 a month, but yeah, stuff is really cheap in Japan and when living alone not having to support a family, that is more than enough to live, travel, have a car, and not have to worry about money.
He must pay tax ~150k, insurance 250~, pension 200k a year if it's not paid by his school so its like 50,000 ye every month in tax, pension, insurance. At 200k or 250k you just survive in Japan, you don't live.
Japan is sooo much cheaper then most European countries and the US. I went last month to Tokio, Osaka and Kyoto and everywhere you can have a good meal for 600-800 yen which is about 4-5 US dollar. It’s ridiculous. Even if you want to eat high quality food in a restaurant like some Kobe beef, drink an alcoholic and an non alcoholic drink you can get away with 8.000 yen for two persons! That’s about 50 US dollars or 50 Euros. I’m from Germany and you would pay like 50 for two normal pizzas, two glasses of wine and a bottle of water in an restaurant, if not more.
@@__-zb9vz i mean if you cook, you can make 2 meals for 4-5 dollars, so it all depends on your lifestyle. If you like eating out and buying new things regularly, the salary wouldn't be enough, but if you don't do that, you can even save a portion of it monthly.
When I lived in Saitama, I made 270,000 after the contract renewal it was 290,000. Then, I switched jobs, and it went down to 250,000. After almost two years they offered an increase to 275,000, and a monthly bonus of 20,000 to be a head teacher, but I decided to leave the country instead.
My son has been teaching English in Japan for about 8 years now since graduating from college. I know they don’t make a lot of money but he is very happy there and doesn’t want to come home. He is an English teacher in a private high school. He made a lot of friends from different countries.
It’s wild just how poorly people are paid. I was making 1500 a month net as an EMT and now i work at a paint factory netting 3k. Last month i netted 9k because i worked 84 hours 2 weeks in a row.
As a Japanese person, I can attest to the price of the bento (lunch box) I saw today at the ORIGIN shop in tokyo, which is $1.94. Additionally, Japan has a national health insurance system, so going to the hospital even once costs only $10. Even the well-known acetaminophen pain reliever costs just $3 for a bottle of 100 tablets. In Japan, highly skilled foreigners also receive tax benefits.
@user-zc7ls8cx8xThat depends where you live. If you live in the vicinity of Tokyo or any other major city, then yes, that salary isn’t impressive and you might struggle a bit. But outside of major cities, Japan’s rent and food gets cheaper. I live in the USA, nowhere near any major cities or tourist spots, and rent for a two bedroom apartment is around $2,000, while in Japan a two-bedroom apartment could cost anywhere between $500 to $900.
Wages in Japan have been stagnant for the last 2 decades or so and with the Yen being so weak now, people are having to tighten their belts quite a bit.
I make more here in India as software developer.And my salary is avarage in my filed as I am in low cost of living metro city here. People in the south and west India in my field earn double of that.
Kinda makes sense. Teachers don’t get that much in public school anywhere, and if he says he only has basic qualifications then yk. Also stuff is cheaper there
Seems good for me since I know the average cost of living is also cheaper. I'm surprised by the amount of people thinking it's not a lot of money and who would've thought, most are Americans..
@@loulou785741 I would say the average minimum wage in America (& with recent inflation it’s still incredibly low) is 30k per year anything less than that is poverty level. 30 k per year is 2500 a month. 1400 is not enough to live on even for 1, the rent for a 1 bedroom apartment may average out to 1400 over here
@@realitybites1253 which is a sad thing, people with higher education and debt have to suffer while I make roughly the same amount, no debt and no time in school. It's not fair to anyone who went to college.
yeah beef jerky can be really hit or miss, especially mass produced ones. the best one i got was at Smokey’s Beef Jerky in Big Bear, CA, flavor was fire, had a kick, and i could actually swallow it lol
Japan is a great place to visit and spend time at...working in a japanese company or in general on the other hand is anything but. Besides the lucky select few the salary is about just enough to survive on. I spent a few months there traveling around japan while day trading, spent a few months around asia and came back. Great place to live and spend time at if you have money..
Sounds about right. Think you get a little bit more based on the level of kids you teach. Like private schools will probably pay more than public schools or college grads vs high school etc.
My son has been teaching in Japan for 13 years. He basically just surviving and paying his bills. He is very frugal and has a roommate. They should pay teachers more since Japan has an expensive cost of living
Last I checked if you were a visa holder you weren’t able to make over 35k annually. This was about 7 years ago, but I went from providing remote I.T. support to being in Japan for about 11 months to complete a project there, they capped my pay at 35k for the year. This was confirmed by the US embassy as well. If he’s getting a substantial increase, he must be speaking about being in the US?
To be more accurate: a qualified teacher of any subject including English (language and literature), providing they are in a reputable school, can expect to be paid a minimum salary of ¥500k/month + travel allowances + yearly return flights. Some get housing + pension contributions + private health. The other category of people who assist and instruct to acquire the English language fall under the range of under ¥200k - ¥300k without any other benefits.
I taught in two different private Japanese high schools 20 some years ago and I was making much more than that back then. And that was when the yen was 97 to 125 to the dollar.
What the end of the bubble, after that most salary were frozen or decreased till ~2011 slooooowly rised by 1% or 2 a year. I came in 1996 and remember all native English speaker talking how salary were crazy in 80's making 500,000~1,000,000 a month. It was an Eldorado, companies were spending like crazy in eikaiwa, companies were giving bonuses to salaryman twice a year they could double salary it was the norm. Nowadays 😂
In Germany Im working 30hours a week and Im getting the same salary which is 1.4K - 1.5K (but it can go higher depending on how good I do in the month) Its probably possible to get 1.7K max. per month which is REALLY good for me.
Making under 20K USD is well below average Japaneese salary. Roughly 1/2 of average. Ironic that Japaneese citizens can obtain more lucrative jobs in the USA, but US citizens, typically, are excluded from obtaining the same opporunities working in Japan. Japan appears to only sponser workers for visas if they except lower paying jobs, relatively, whereas the USA predominitly doesn't have such restrictions.
1,400 to 1,500 a month? Rent must not be that bad. I've always wondered if moving to Japan for a couple of years to do HVAC would always be possible? Or just a blue collar job in general.
My rent was ¥60,000/month, but then you have to add electricity bill, water & gas, internet and phone bill, food, transportation fee, etc. My salary was similar to his.
Wow, not a good salary. Before all the haken gaisha (Temp/Dispatch agencies), my sakary was 360,000 yen, plus subsidised apartment. NOW, it is a lot less, several reasons, but the biggest one is the dispatch companies inserting themselves as the middleman and scabbing a huge 150,000 yen as a rough guide (varies from region to region) for each ALT, when it is not really needed. The dispatch gets rich, local boards of education have no responsibility.....the only person that loses is the ALT. I was a qualified teacher before I came to Japan, but, I got paid the same as someone without a teaching qualification nor the experience that I had. Meritocracy means nothing to greedy management teams.
I work as an undergrad chemistry lab assistant. I do the job a lot better than most people with bachelor in chemistry. Why am I getting paid less? It’s stupid.
Avoid dispatch companies. Their business model is to fleece the teacher's paycheck. I've known teachers who were left with 20,000 yen ($130) after "expenses".
That's a crap salary for English teaching. 30 years ago I was earning around ¥400,000 per month for teaching during the day for an agency teaching at schools and colleges, plus an additional ¥140,000 for teaching business classes for 2 hours, 3 or 4 evenings a week. English teaching salaries have dropped significantly since I lived there.
Any teacher in this entire World will not become rich teaching. Teaching is vocation and passion. And if you do something that is greatful, you will be alwsys happy.
He must be one of the best teachers I've ever seen in social media. He's just lovely, calm, and loves his interactions with his students ❤
@@carollynt yeahh I hate when teachers judge you and compare according to "where you're at"
@@carollyntHuh? How is that an issue?
he should have said
you mean , How much do I for teaching English at japanese public school?
@@carollynt - Being an English teacher does not mean having to be so uptight that you cannot use very common colloquialisms when having a casual conversation on the street. And “where you’re at”( in life, etc.) is an extremely common phrase in English. Of course, occasionally when you do this you will be called out on it by some uptight idiot who has a stick shoved so far up his @ss that he can’t even bend over.
He’s a famous tik tokker, totally forgot his name though
I like how the guy in the background just turned around when they saw the camera 😂😂😂😂
Yeah, Japanese people are very shy and typically don't like being in front of a camera
I thought I was the only one who noticed lol
Just like the games
💀👌
I would do the same
Mr. Patrick! He has a big social media presence and he videos are sooo funny!
Yes i was just scrolling thru this guys shorts and I was like "Mr pateriku?"
Please send a link to his videos
@@Black_Star23yes, I'm interested to see his vids too. Sounds like he's got a great personality
May i ask if this mr patrick have yt channel or ig or tiktok. His username
As a Japanese person, I can attest to the price of the bento (lunch box) I saw today at the ORIGIN shop, which is $1.94. Additionally, Japan has a national health insurance system, so going to the hospital even once costs only $10. Even the well-known acetaminophen pain reliever costs just $3 for a bottle of 20 tablets. In Japan, highly skilled foreigners also receive tax benefits.
What tax benefits you’re talking about? Can I know some more info about it, because I’m paying like 18 man every month 😭
@@Dave-zd2nl I'm not entirely sure about the details, but Japan does have a program called the Highly Skilled Foreign Professionals system, which offers tax incentives and expanded visa options. From what I know, there's an organization called JETRO that acts as a mediator between Japanese and foreign companies. JETRO holds significant influence in Japan and is a valuable resource for foreign businesses coming to Japan, as well as Japanese companies going abroad. I believe they also recruit highly skilled foreign professionals and offer guides on how to take advantage of this system. You might want to check out their "OFP List" for more information.
Japan, of course, welcomes people from all backgrounds, but please don't come from the likes of Somali....
notes:sorry,I am talking about Somali,
name of a person, not the name of a country. I apologize for the misleading explanation.
I had surgery on a broken hand in Tokyo, cost me like 50,000 yen or less.
@@paserik320Why?
I’ve seen this guy with his students. Nice guy 👍🏼
"PATORIK-SANNNNNNN" just screamed in my head 💀
The average cost of living in Japan for one person is $1,200 a month, while in the USA it's $2,213 a month. For a family to live in Japan, it costs $3,051 a month on average, compared to $5,003 in the United States. (Source: Pacific Prime)
Median disposable income adjusted for cost of living is $22,000 in Japan, and $46,000 in the US (Source: OECD).
Sounds VERY low. I taught for 5 yrs in Nagoya - and recall monthly takehome roughly double that - bubble economy - late 80's. Private lessons ~ $90/ hr.
Costs - little rabbit hutch -2 rm tatami apartment ~ $2000/ month
@@erikkind1224 Interesting! So Japan's deflation crisis has made the salaries and prices be divided by two. You're not the first person making this remark in the comments.
Depends where you live in the USA lmao $2,200😂
That's low salary per month
If you’re thinking about being an English teacher in Japan, be very careful. So many (especially ALT) companies are really shady. Try to get a direct hire from a school.
MISTER PATRICKKKKKKK i luv this dude
His videos never fail to make me laugh
I love Mr. Patrick's channel! ... I hope he has a longer video on here. I'm sure lots of people could benefit from this information
In 2020, I was making ¥243k/month as a teacher. Living cost was incredibly low, job rewarding enough to make me going back to Uni to get a proper education in teaching 😍
oh really
Living cost was low? Were you teaching in a rural area?
@@TruckerReviewed nope. 160k citizens town in Miyazaki prefecture.
Price has dropped hugely since I was in Japan 2015. Payment was ¥300,000 per month.
This sounds like shit, but he's black. Some Asian countrys do that
Perhaps the rest goes towards admin/overhead costs?
@@xenleahbut with inflation, salary really should not be decreasing
He went from "Everybody Hates Chris" to "Abbott Elementary" the Japanese version 😂🎉
Haaaa I knew he looked familiar.
What do you mean
Mr Patrick! ❤😂 been following him for a couple years now he’s hilarious and his content is so informative and i love seeing his experience as a teacher who’s afro American living in japan. Im not american and have yet to visit japan but like seeing black creators talking about that experience there. I have Japanese friends non Japanese friends who lived or live there and it fascinates me to discover japan through them. Will make my way there eventually I’ve travelled around the world quite a bit and they all say i’ll love it ❤😊
His hand gestures remind me of a buddy I lost❤. You can see he has great mannerisms and is well rounded.
Ngl wasn’t expecting this collab
He's been on the channel at least once before.
Who is that guy? He looks so familiar
5 days a week, and virtually no one can speak English in Japan 😢
english is the hardest language
@@YanataaNo it isn’t
We learn French 5 days a week in the UK and France is next door......we still can’t speak it here 😂
@@RoboticcOdachiWhile true, it is extremely hard for Asians and especially Japanese.
This isn't like learning another Latin or Germanic language if you already had one of them. It's completely alien
@@Yanataahardest language? I literally learned English by watching cartoons as a kid.
Are people forgetting cost of living is different from country to country? In the US, it might be barely enough to get by. In Japan, it might be enough to cover food, housing, and maybe even a little extra. Not that I’m saying it is, since idk jack shit about Japanese economy, but not everyone is living in USA lmao.
I think he's got the numbers wrong, he didn't seem to know exactly how much he makes. The average is 280,000 a month, but yeah, stuff is really cheap in Japan and when living alone not having to support a family, that is more than enough to live, travel, have a car, and not have to worry about money.
He must pay tax ~150k, insurance 250~, pension 200k a year if it's not paid by his school so its like 50,000 ye every month in tax, pension, insurance.
At 200k or 250k you just survive in Japan, you don't live.
Japan is sooo much cheaper then most European countries and the US. I went last month to Tokio, Osaka and Kyoto and everywhere you can have a good meal for 600-800 yen which is about 4-5 US dollar. It’s ridiculous. Even if you want to eat high quality food in a restaurant like some Kobe beef, drink an alcoholic and an non alcoholic drink you can get away with 8.000 yen for two persons! That’s about 50 US dollars or 50 Euros.
I’m from Germany and you would pay like 50 for two normal pizzas, two glasses of wine and a bottle of water in an restaurant, if not more.
@@__-zb9vz i mean if you cook, you can make 2 meals for 4-5 dollars, so it all depends on your lifestyle. If you like eating out and buying new things regularly, the salary wouldn't be enough, but if you don't do that, you can even save a portion of it monthly.
@@cadestrathern1260yeah well the average person in japan isnt living, they're surviving. Taxes over there are hell
When I lived in Saitama, I made 270,000 after the contract renewal it was 290,000. Then, I switched jobs, and it went down to 250,000. After almost two years they offered an increase to 275,000, and a monthly bonus of 20,000 to be a head teacher, but I decided to leave the country instead.
What are the units? 270,000 apples? 20,000 kg? Nobody will understand without units
@@icsg7287it's obviously yen
@@icsg7287 anyone with common sense would know it is in jap yen 💀
@@icsg7287In Japan, the unit of currency is the yen.
@@icsg7287I think he meant yen.
My son has been teaching English in Japan for about 8 years now since graduating from college. I know they don’t make a lot of money but he is very happy there and doesn’t want to come home. He is an English teacher in a private high school. He made a lot of friends from different countries.
It’s wild just how poorly people are paid. I was making 1500 a month net as an EMT and now i work at a paint factory netting 3k. Last month i netted 9k because i worked 84 hours 2 weeks in a row.
@annasarina925 how much free stuff do you get from the government and how’s your retirement savings?
omg he looks like the actor from everyone hates chris and let it shine
He does❤
1500 month? Almost fastfood wage in America 😅
Lucky for him he's not in the US then!
@@loulou785741 how is that lucky? Especially when the cost of living is much higher in japan.
@user-zc7ls8cx8x that would make a lot more sense
@@justsomeguycommenting6807students are a pain to teach in the US. Parents are also a pain or not around at all.
@@berlandemberi1415 your comment is subjective and how does that correlate with what I'm talking about?
different areas of the world have products priced differently. That's why in Japan you get get by with 1500 USD but in America it's a terrible salary.
But aren’t basic things in Japan expensive, like produce?
@@LittleLulubeeit's only Tokyo that's quite expensive, in most other parts of Japan are surprisingly cheap to live in
As a Japanese person, I can attest to the price of the bento (lunch box) I saw today at the ORIGIN shop in tokyo, which is $1.94. Additionally, Japan has a national health insurance system, so going to the hospital even once costs only $10. Even the well-known acetaminophen pain reliever costs just $3 for a bottle of 100 tablets. In Japan, highly skilled foreigners also receive tax benefits.
Toyko you paid much more
@user-zc7ls8cx8xThat depends where you live. If you live in the vicinity of Tokyo or any other major city, then yes, that salary isn’t impressive and you might struggle a bit. But outside of major cities, Japan’s rent and food gets cheaper. I live in the USA, nowhere near any major cities or tourist spots, and rent for a two bedroom apartment is around $2,000, while in Japan a two-bedroom apartment could cost anywhere between $500 to $900.
MISTER PATRICK!!! Hiii!!! Love his content!!
We worked at the same place but he managed to do what I could not. So happy for him🎉
Waiiit what a month. Makes me grateful for my job 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾.
Wages in Japan have been stagnant for the last 2 decades or so and with the Yen being so weak now, people are having to tighten their belts quite a bit.
Dude has a positive aura
He seems so cool! And nice, good for him 🎉
I went to Japan this summer and a decent onigiri was like a dollar or two. His salary is not a lot but neither small.
I make more here in India as software developer.And my salary is avarage in my filed as I am in low cost of living metro city here. People in the south and west India in my field earn double of that.
Kinda makes sense. Teachers don’t get that much in public school anywhere, and if he says he only has basic qualifications then yk. Also stuff is cheaper there
NYC and NJ teachers make good money
Seems good for me since I know the average cost of living is also cheaper. I'm surprised by the amount of people thinking it's not a lot of money and who would've thought, most are Americans..
Wow, that’s the average salary in Japan? I’m surprised it’s so little!
So little compared to what? 1500$-2500$/month is the average salary in many "developed" countries.
@@loulou785741 I would say the average minimum wage in America (& with recent inflation it’s still incredibly low) is 30k per year anything less than that is poverty level. 30 k per year is 2500 a month. 1400 is not enough to live on even for 1, the rent for a 1 bedroom apartment may average out to 1400 over here
@@loulou785741that's little as hell for someome with higher education, I work in a warehouse no degree and make 5,500/month before taxes.
That's a basic salary in America buddy meaning some are actually making less in America
@@realitybites1253 which is a sad thing, people with higher education and debt have to suffer while I make roughly the same amount, no debt and no time in school. It's not fair to anyone who went to college.
yeah beef jerky can be really hit or miss, especially mass produced ones. the best one i got was at Smokey’s Beef Jerky in Big Bear, CA, flavor was fire, had a kick, and i could actually swallow it lol
Japan is a great place to visit and spend time at...working in a japanese company or in general on the other hand is anything but. Besides the lucky select few the salary is about just enough to survive on. I spent a few months there traveling around japan while day trading, spent a few months around asia and came back. Great place to live and spend time at if you have money..
mr patrick!! didn't expect to see him here ❤
Sounds about right. Think you get a little bit more based on the level of kids you teach. Like private schools will probably pay more than public schools or college grads vs high school etc.
This guy is on social media! Mr. Patrick eating bad food😂😂😂😂 and coffee!!
My son has been teaching in Japan for 13 years. He basically just surviving and paying his bills. He is very frugal and has a roommate. They should pay teachers more since Japan has an expensive cost of living
Lmao that one dude in the background "Aww hell nah, I'm going back"
Looking very nice!!😊😊
All i am remembering is “your not chocolate? What are you?” LOL.. Patorik-san made my day..
I would love to hear him give more details on the different ways of getting work then how each differs paywise.
Now why did I expect Danny to pop up any second 😂
Last I checked if you were a visa holder you weren’t able to make over 35k annually. This was about 7 years ago, but I went from providing remote I.T. support to being in Japan for about 11 months to complete a project there, they capped my pay at 35k for the year.
This was confirmed by the US embassy as well.
If he’s getting a substantial increase, he must be speaking about being in the US?
To be more accurate: a qualified teacher of any subject including English (language and literature), providing they are in a reputable school, can expect to be paid a minimum salary of ¥500k/month + travel allowances + yearly return flights. Some get housing + pension contributions + private health. The other category of people who assist and instruct to acquire the English language fall under the range of under ¥200k - ¥300k without any other benefits.
My fav Japan based influencers together 😍
🎶"Everybody hAates ChrisSs"🎶
I taught in two different private Japanese high schools 20 some years ago and I was making much more than that back then. And that was when the yen was 97 to 125 to the dollar.
Teacher Patrick❤, the only cool teacher on social media.
i was getting 350000 yen back in 1991 for a normal month at Nova english school. wages gone backwards in japan
What the end of the bubble, after that most salary were frozen or decreased till ~2011 slooooowly rised by 1% or 2 a year. I came in 1996 and remember all native English speaker talking how salary were crazy in 80's making 500,000~1,000,000 a month. It was an Eldorado, companies were spending like crazy in eikaiwa, companies were giving bonuses to salaryman twice a year they could double salary it was the norm. Nowadays 😂
I lived with quite a few teachers that came in 89 and they never said that amount was made. @@kaminarimon639
I’ve seen him on TikTok! He’s super funny!
Retired from Everybody Hates Chris, now teaches Japanese. Life is crazy
That’s crazy! I taught English to business people for a company in Shiga and I was paid $30 an hour. I made $700 for three days worth of work.
I used to teach in Shiga too, but through the JET Programme until July 2023. :)
In Germany Im working 30hours a week and Im getting the same salary which is 1.4K - 1.5K (but it can go higher depending on how good I do in the month) Its probably possible to get 1.7K max. per month which is REALLY good for me.
Was für ein Beruf übst du aus?
He looks like an amazing teacher 👍🏾
So many english teachers in japan yet ppl still struggle speaking english. I grew up in a country where was only one english teacher in my area .
In my country it's the same deal as Japan, our kids prefer russian over English cuz we have more Russians in my country
@RACOONAFIED which country are you from?
@@SatabdiKundu07 Latvia 🇱🇻👌
Before seeing Mr. Patrick I was guessing that is was going to be him. 🙂
As soon as he mentioned Japanese schools teaching english I knew it would be Mr. Patrick
i haven't seen Mr. Patrick since I deleted tiktok, awesome to see him again!! street interview is different from his storytimes lmao
We love you PAT!!!
omgggg i love his videos!!!! crazy collab lol
Can also teach US military school in Okinawa since US still legally own like 1/4 of Okinawa.
My friend works as an English teacher in Japan, he said that the salary is liveable unless you live in Tokyo.
Making under 20K USD is well below average Japaneese salary. Roughly 1/2 of average. Ironic that Japaneese citizens can obtain more lucrative jobs in the USA, but US citizens, typically, are excluded from obtaining the same opporunities working in Japan. Japan appears to only sponser workers for visas if they except lower paying jobs, relatively, whereas the USA predominitly doesn't have such restrictions.
I love this guy!
This is an English teacher who can't express a simple thought without using the word "like." I hope his students don't pick that up from him.
He only said “like” four times and each time he used it correctly calm down
1,400 to 1,500 a month? Rent must not be that bad. I've always wondered if moving to Japan for a couple of years to do HVAC would always be possible? Or just a blue collar job in general.
My rent was ¥60,000/month, but then you have to add electricity bill, water & gas, internet and phone bill, food, transportation fee, etc. My salary was similar to his.
Well, salary is driven by demand vs supply. It’s reasonable as long as they’d like to work at this pay.
Wow, not a good salary. Before all the haken gaisha (Temp/Dispatch agencies), my sakary was 360,000 yen, plus subsidised apartment. NOW, it is a lot less, several reasons, but the biggest one is the dispatch companies inserting themselves as the middleman and scabbing a huge 150,000 yen as a rough guide (varies from region to region) for each ALT, when it is not really needed. The dispatch gets rich, local boards of education have no responsibility.....the only person that loses is the ALT. I was a qualified teacher before I came to Japan, but, I got paid the same as someone without a teaching qualification nor the experience that I had. Meritocracy means nothing to greedy management teams.
I got paid the same in 2005.... That's 20 years.. salary hasn't gone up at all!
Tokuyuu next please! ❤
The hand movements 😊❤
That does happen to be low, i made around 2300 a month which was just fine for me.
MR.PATRICK!!😂🙌🏻
Wow, in the Philippines teaching in public schools doesn't even have that kind of salary it's pretty high compare here, and even having a License
I work as an undergrad chemistry lab assistant. I do the job a lot better than most people with bachelor in chemistry. Why am I getting paid less? It’s stupid.
Japan has a really good health systerm, i might consider going in japan in the future
No.
Is this not the guy from everybody hates Chris show?
I came to comment that! Lol. Looks just like him!!
That dude is teaching in Abbott Elementary.
Naah
I legit thought the same. They do look alike
No, it's not.
Dude really could pull off looking like Tyler James Williams from (Everybody Hates Chris) sitcom. 🤣🤣🤣
Avoid dispatch companies. Their business model is to fleece the teacher's paycheck. I've known teachers who were left with 20,000 yen ($130) after "expenses".
Everybody Hates Chris
People say Japan is expensive but if that’s the average living wage you could lowkey ball out if you have a good remote job
This teacher deserves more yen each week.
I feel like he shares a soft likeness with Tyler James Williams
That's a crap salary for English teaching. 30 years ago I was earning around ¥400,000 per month for teaching during the day for an agency teaching at schools and colleges, plus an additional ¥140,000 for teaching business classes for 2 hours, 3 or 4 evenings a week. English teaching salaries have dropped significantly since I lived there.
Any teacher in this entire World will not become rich teaching. Teaching is vocation and passion. And if you do something that is greatful, you will be alwsys happy.
1400 a week is average? I understand that stuff probably costs different. But japan has a great travel system. Housing is probably ridiculous though.
No way!! Mr Patrick! He's the best
He said a week and I was like 👀 but then bro said a month and I was like 👁👄👁
I love Patricks tiktoks
Dude is the guy from everybody hates chris lol
I was making 280, 000 Yen...rent for a three-room apartment was 500.00 USD a month.
That's what I bring home after taxes per week
omg it's Mister Patrick!!!
Sensei! I followed you on Instagram😊
Gasp! It's Mr Patrick! How cool!
You can make 5 times that amount in Canada doing the less stressful job than working with kids worse in a foreign country.
Thanks to him everytime I say show you, I repeat myself and say 'shoyuuu?!???'