Roswalle's Workstation

Exact figures are unavailable, but it is fair to assume that a large number of foreigners who work in Japan will spend at least some of their time teaching in a language school. But after that if we want to stay longer in Japan we must decide if we lose ourselves in the facelessness of a large company, or take a job on our own in what may be something like a family-run operation where I am the only teacher.
Full-time teachers can expect to earn between \200,000 and \240,000, while part-timers will be looking at an hourly wage of between \2,000 and \4,000 yen. So if money isn't the key, what is? An article in the newspaper says that the secretary of the National Union of General Workers receives around 600 complaints annually relating to conversation schools, divided equally between large and small companies. Very few aren’t about the level of pay. Instead, most of the problems are with job and income security, contracts and evaluations. "The bigger conversation schools are generally better places to work in terms of job and income security," because although the wage levels might not differ between small and large schools, your chances of getting paid might.