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Check out our new Thailand teaching salary guide

Wednesday, September 28th, 2011
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To celebrate our 3rd anniversary this month, we thought it might be fun, and educational, to pull out our job statistics to date to determine what is the average teaching salary in Thailand.

With our mission in hand we concentrated on 3 metrics; average Thailand teaching salary, average teaching salary by region, and average teaching salary by job.

Average teaching salary - At time of this article, the average teaching salary in Thailand was 30,900 baht per month. Accepted wisdom states that the average salary is 30,000 baht so teachers may actually be getting slightly more than this.

Average teaching salary by region - Unsurprisingly, Central and Bangkok has the highest average teaching salaries in Thailand at 32,900 baht per month. The worst? The north, which mainly includes Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai, where a teacher receives about 23,200 baht per month. It's been known for a while that the beautiful and scenic North brings in a lot of teachers but the demand for them is much less, which is reflected in this statistic.

Average salary by job - Here we consider the average salaries across the 7 levels we use on our site. The best paid are primary and secondary teachers at 31,100 and 30,200 respectively. This probably reflects the demand for qualified teachers in these groups which is not so high for the rest. The lowest paid are nursery positions (ie, for children 2 years and under) at 18,700 baht per month. Working in polytechnics, universities and in adult education also commands significantly lower salaries at around 22-23,000 per month.

You can check out the statistics yourselves on our new salary guide page here:

www.ajarnjobspace.com/salary_guide.php

Note that our statistics are compliled from our live job stats from 2008 to 2011 and only fulltime jobs were included. Also bear in mind that any statistics should always be taken with a grain of salt and our stats may not generalise across the teaching sector in Thailand as a whole. As Mark Twain said, "There are lies, damned lies and statistics."