What teachers in China actually report

Every figure below comes from a real teacher's own post โ€” and every one links to its source so you can check it yourself. This is a record of what people reported, in their own words.

How to read this. Self-reported data from public forum posts. Counts below are things we verified by hand, one post at a time. People post problems more often than smooth experiences, so treat these as signal โ€” not as official statistics. Nothing here is legal advice.
ยฅ20,000
median monthly salary
(17 hand-checked records)
16
contract traps
documented with real cases
22
case quotes
read and verified by hand
15
distinct source posts
each one you can open

What's inside

๐Ÿ“Š Salary data

Hand-checked monthly figures with city, school type and the exact source post. Includes the traps people fall into when comparing offers.

โš ๏ธ Contract traps

Specific ways teachers report being caught out โ€” each one with the posts that show it. We do not publish frequency rankings; we tested that method and it was not reliable.

โœ… Checklist

Tick what your own contract says and see which documented traps apply to you.

๐Ÿ“„ Real cases

Documented situations teachers reported โ€” with a result where one is known. These are the problems that never show up in the contract wording itself.

โš–๏ธ Disputes

Who people turn to when it goes wrong, and how those cases actually ended.

Why this exists

Every figure here comes from a post a real teacher wrote, and each one links back to that post so you can read it in full. Where the sample is too small to generalise, we say so instead of rounding it up.

See the salary data โ†’   Check your own contract (free preview)

Built from public teacher discussions. Every figure shows its sample size.
Not legal advice ยท sourced from self-reported forum posts ยท contract check tool