Originally Posted by
gladstoneyoung
Hi,
My family and I did a 17 night HAL cruise last Dec-Jan. It was our first. It was superb in every respect! Our six and ten year olds cried saying farewell to the cabin and wait staff. In discussing with our favourite waiter, we discovered he was a teacher. He was earning between four and five times what he would have been earning if he had stayed teaching in Bali.
Only four to five times? Foreigners get paid from $500/month to teach English in Indonesia (admittedly this is the salary for teachers without professional qualifications). An Indonesian teacher in a 'Plus' school (prestigious) could expect $300-$500/month, and as for a teacher in a local village school (i.e. most of them) about $150/month.