Use the evidence before comparing the headline

A country name or advertised amount cannot tell you whether two routes are comparable. An assistantship allowance, a monthly employee salary and a teaching-hour rate measure different things. This original secondary analysis makes the gaps in our own curated evidence visible.

It covers all 30 stored route records across 27 separately listed destinations. Taiwan and Hong Kong retain their separate destination entries. The selection is not a representative sample of teaching jobs or countries. We did not survey employers, collect participant outcomes or independently recheck the linked sources for this calculation.

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What the 30-record snapshot contains

16 records contain two usable numeric pay bounds. Equal lower and upper values represent one recorded amount, not a range across employers.
14 records lack a usable numeric pair. This does not mean the role is unpaid or that no salary information exists elsewhere.
3 records match a financial scenario by exact route ID. The models cover Graz, Liège and Leipzig assistantships, with explicit assumptions; they do not establish national savings levels.
73 distinct source IDs are attached to these routes. Sources can support several records, and a higher count does not establish stronger evidence or more recent checking.

Some stored pay evidence describes a named historical offer or intake. Read the route's pay description and original source before treating any amount as applicable to a new application. The download retains the pay description and source IDs for this purpose.

How to reproduce the analysis

Use the TeachAtlas research download and its dated foundation records. The exact analysed foundation hash is recorded in the benchmark JSON; the general research download can also contain a separately dated intake-update layer.
Take one row per pathway_id. Deduplicate the route's source_ids before counting them; do not add destination-level or budget sources to that route count.
Treat a pay bound as numeric only when its JSON value is a finite, non-negative number. Keep zero as zero. Keep unknown, missing and verification-required values separate from numbers. Require both bounds and a lower value no greater than the upper value for a usable pair.
Retain currency and pay_basis. Do not convert or combine gross and net figures, hourly rates, allowances and monthly salaries into a league table.
Join financial scenarios using exact pathway_id. A second case in one scenario does not create a second route model; sharing a country does not make another route comparable.

The analysis date records this calculation. It does not renew a source access date, certify legal eligibility or imply independent specialist review. The results describe stored fields rather than the current teaching market.

Keep the route types distinct

Route types in the analysed foundation
Stored route type	Records
Language assistantship	10
Employed or self-employed teaching	1
International-school subject teaching	1
Language-centre teaching	12
School English-language teaching	5
Self-employed teaching	1

These categories describe how the foundation organises its records. They do not decide the professional registration, employment status or work permission required for a particular applicant.

Inspect every route record

The table keeps the source's own currency and pay basis. Open the destination guide and linked sources for context. “No matched model” means that this dataset contains no financial scenario for that exact route.

All 30 routes, ordered alphabetically by destination and then route ID
Route ID	Destination and type	Programme or employer	Attached sources	Recorded pay and basis	Matched budget city
AR-01	Argentina Language assistantship	British Council ELA	2 S02 S04	ARS unknown unknown	No matched model
AT-01	Austria Language assistantship	British Council ELA	2 S02 S05	EUR 1,630 net month	Graz
BE-01	Belgium Language assistantship	British Council ELA	3 S02 S03 S06	EUR 1,593.46 net month	Liège
CA-01	Canada Language assistantship	British Council ELA Quebec	2 S02 S07	CAD 2,600 gross month	No matched model
CN-01	China School English-language teaching	Employer-sponsored language teaching	1 S20	CNY unknown unknown	No matched model
CZ-01	Czechia Language-centre teaching	IH Prague	3 S39 S40 S97	CZK unknown unknown	No matched model
FR-01	France Language assistantship	British Council ELA	2 S02 S08	EUR 1,010.67 gross month	No matched model
DE-01	Germany Language assistantship	British Council ELA	2 S02 S09	EUR 1,000 net month	Leipzig
DE-02	Germany Employed or self-employed teaching	Federal language-teacher immigration route	1 S81	EUR unknown unknown	No matched model
HK-01	Hong Kong School English-language teaching	Primary NET scheme	1 S26	HKD 35,080 to 67,850 gross scale month	No matched model
ID-01	Indonesia Language-centre teaching	British Council/TBI market evidence	2 S33 S34	IDR unknown unknown	No matched model
IT-01	Italy Language assistantship	British Council ELA	2 S02 S10	EUR 850 to 1,100 net month	No matched model
JP-01	Japan Language assistantship	UK JET ALT	3 S13 S14 S74	JPY 335,000 gross month	No matched model
MY-01	Malaysia Language-centre teaching	British Council Penang vacancy	2 S29 S30	MYR unknown unknown	No matched model
MT-01	Malta Language-centre teaching	ELT Council licensed market	2 S43 S44	EUR unknown unknown	No matched model
OM-01	Oman Language-centre teaching	British Council Oman	3 S60 S61 S84	OMR unknown unknown	No matched model
PL-01	Poland Self-employed teaching	International House Bielsko-Biała	4 S35 S36 S37 S38	PLN unknown unknown	No matched model
PT-01	Portugal Language-centre teaching	ESE English Évora advertised 2026–27 role	2 S41 S42	EUR 1,527 gross regular month	No matched model
QA-01	Qatar Language-centre teaching	British Council Doha	3 S58 S59 S83	QAR unknown unknown	No matched model
SA-01	Saudi Arabia Language-centre teaching	British Council teaching centres	3 S62 S63 S64	SAR unknown unknown	No matched model
SG-01	Singapore Language-centre teaching	British Council teaching market	7 S31 S32 S53 S54 S55 S56 S57	SGD unknown unknown	No matched model
KR-01	South Korea School English-language teaching	EPIK	2 S15 S16	KRW 2,200,000 to 2,350,000 gross month	No matched model
ES-01	Spain Language assistantship	British Council ELA	2 S02 S11	EUR 800 to 1,000 net stipend month	No matched model
CH-01	Switzerland Language assistantship	British Council ELA / Movetia	2 S02 S12	CHF 2,600 net month	No matched model
TW-01	Taiwan School English-language teaching	TFETP public-school teacher	7 S21 S22 S23 S76 S77 S78 S79	TWD 69,880 gross month	No matched model
TW-02	Taiwan Language-centre teaching	HESS	2 S24 S25	TWD 680 to 730 gross teaching hour	No matched model
TH-01	Thailand School English-language teaching	Sitapatr school example	2 S27 S28	THB unknown unknown	No matched model
AE-01	United Arab Emirates Language-centre teaching	British Council Dubai senior teacher vacancy	9 S45 S46 S47 S48 S49 S50 S51 S52 S82	AED 11,000 to 12,500 advertised month basis to confirm	No matched model
AE-02	United Arab Emirates International-school subject teaching	Regulated private schools	3 S46 S47 S48	AED unknown unknown	No matched model
VN-01	Vietnam Language-centre teaching	VUS	3 S17 S18 S19	VND 450,000 gross teaching hour	No matched model

Turn a missing field into a question

Destination and route type: Ask which exact programme, employer, classroom setting and contract the information describes. Do not transfer benefits between routes in the same country.
Source count: Check whether each source supports the specific claim and whether its date and jurisdiction fit. Several links may repeat the same fact.
Pay amount, currency and basis: Obtain a written offer and identify paid hours or months, gross or net treatment, deductions and any unpaid period. A complete numeric pair alone does not answer those questions.
Matched budget coverage: Use a model only when its route, city, household and assumptions fit. Otherwise enter your own confirmed figures in the budget tool, keeping unknown costs visible.

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Review and corrections

Review this descriptive benchmark when the foundation changes and at least annually, with a new analysis date and recorded source hash after a substantive recalculation. Keep previous findings identifiable. A routine website rebuild does not count as a source review.

Our editorial standards and correction log explain the limits of the evidence and the outstanding contact-channel issue. The linked research register retains source dates. This asset is freely available without registration; it provides no endorsement of a course, recruiter or country.

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