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50k for a bar / gogo girl is possible however there are loads who don't earn anything like that. How many do you see 'left over' at the end of the night? Hundreds! One girl I know well hasn't been BF'd for about 1 week and has no sponsors. Shes a nice girl as well.... Only makes 300THB on 'off' days.

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most bar girls dont make much money. only certain ones make good money

you only have 2 watch how many finish the night with no men.

most are stil livin in poverty, and wil stil be living in poverty in 20yrs time.

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interesting thread, I wonder how much is saved by the 'big earners'?

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we all get told differnt numbers etc,i know one girl ,she has a house paid for ,car etc i have know here for many years,sometimes stays with me ,when she gets loads of cash ,i just buy here food etc,she just like to relax and go and do things its good for me,and she has the cheek to call me a butterfly,she is allways busy etc ,she tells me she is in and out quick with the guys.

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My TGF showed me her wages paper of a month from factory. With overtime mak mak 11.000 bath.

 

She had made a cataloge of stuff she could sell to people in the factory. They make an order and on her day off (1 day a month) she'd go to bangkok to buy cosmetica and clothes people ordered. And she also would lend money to people and ask for 110% back. Real buisness girl :FunnyPost1:

 

She got herself a car of 600k when working in the factory.

 

If you got the brains im sure you can a get pretty ok income as a thai person.

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Poted before but post again

 

http://www.payscale....Thailand/Salary

 

Thailand has one of the largest "wage gaps" in the world - a real thorn in their side to be honest.

 

The low paid are VERY low paid but middle earners and up have far greater spending power than most Westerners. This is the "mid-so" not the fabled hi-so of myth and legend and TV soaps.

 

In addition the way they tend to stay at home far longer than we do, often forever, means there are usually several income earners contributing to household income whereas we (usually) have one or two.

 

A 2m baht, 30 year mortgage, costs less than 8,000 baht a month. Few westerners can get a house and mortagge for under 200 quid ($300) a month. Its buying power and expendable income that is more relevant than gross earings.

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Some of those figures seem a little high.

Though pattaya does pay very well. Lots of us stupid falangs throwing money around and a large percentage of the thai population won't work thier because the neigbours will talk and say they are bar girs.

 

I think a lot of the sellers have to pay money for their routes or spots and possible other considerations to various interested parties.

In the peak tourist areas I think it is more like a franchise. Someone gives then the cart and the tat/food to sell on it, and the route.

I'd imagine on Walking Street a large chunk of their profits is going to other people.

 

Factory works can make good money if they do crazy overtime. Not sure if they can hit 10,000B.

 

My understand was that a lot of non-skilled jobs start at 4,000B.

7/11, mini-mart, that sort of thing.

And most university graduates who have been in the workforce for years would still be earning less than 10,000B a month.

 

Contract teachers are paid 7,900B a month.

And they need a degree to do that.

 

Some of the taxi drivers must be raking it in. The few i've known outside of work ahve been very well of.

Still a lot of that stuff is controlled. The new guys who come down from the country without a car and want to get into taxi driving are getting gouged for almost every penny they earn.

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Some of those figures seem a little high.

Though pattaya does pay very well. Lots of us stupid falangs throwing money around and a large percentage of the thai population won't work thier because the neigbours will talk and say they are bar girs.

 

I think a lot of the sellers have to pay money for their routes or spots and possible other considerations to various interested parties.

In the peak tourist areas I think it is more like a franchise. Someone gives then the cart and the tat/food to sell on it, and the route.

I'd imagine on walking street a large chunk of their profits is going to other people.

 

Factory works can make good money if they do crazy overtime. Not sure if they can hit 10,000B.

 

My understand was that a lot of non-skilled jobs start at 4,000B.

7/11, mini-mart, that sort of thing.

And most university graduates who have been in the workforce for years would still be earning less than 10,000B a month.

 

Contract teachers are paid 7,900B a month.

And they need a degree to do that.

 

Some of the taxi drivers must be raking it in. The few i've known outside of work ahve been very well of.

Still a lot of that stuff is controlled. The new guys who come down from the country without a car and want to get into taxi driving are getting gouged for almost every penny they earn.

 

Dont disagree mate but a couple of points.

 

Low paid workers, the very bottom, make up 30% of the workforce. If we assume 10% are the eluive hi-so that makes 50% just normal middle and lower middle class.

 

Pattaya is NOT normal Thailand, never has been and never will be.

 

I am not sure where you get that teachers salary from. I know several teachers in State schools in Sattahip - all have new cars and houses. You couldn't buy a new car on 7,900 a month as the lowest repayment is 7000. Maybe its all made up in "extras".

 

Uni Graduates making 10,000?? This all depends on the Uni' and the age, it is impossible to generalise. Thailand has such a high university entrance level that you end up with tin pot degrees and an over abundance of graduates chasing too few jobs - market forces then prevail. We try to hire graduate programmers and they start at 35k+ for a 23yo. Also Thailand has this silly notion about the age 30. Many graduates get low salaries for 7 years then all of sudden quadruples when they hit this magic age. So yes, most young graduates are low paid but Thai business considers them apprentices until they hit 30.

 

I do agree its all debatable, but one thing is for sure the "picture" most of us get from knowing girls from the rural areas is FAR from 'average" here.

 

Look at a Thai Airways junior pilot - salary is 49,000 a month starting level. In the West his mortgage would cost him 50% of his salary however big it is - here his mortagge is less than 15% of his salary which means his spending power is higher.

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Dont disagree mate but a couple of points.

 

Low paid workers, the very bottom, make up 30% of the workforce. If we assume 10% are the eluive hi-so that makes 50% just normal middle and lower middle class.

 

Pattaya is NOT normal Thailand, never has been and never will be.

 

I am not sure where you get that teachers salary from. I know several teachers in State schools in Sattahip - all have new cars and houses. You couldn't buy a new car on 7,900 a month as the lowest repayment is 7000. Maybe its all made up in "extras".

 

Uni Graduates making 10,000?? This all depends on the Uni' and the age, it is impossible to generalise. Thailand has such a high university entrance level that you end up with tin pot degrees and an over abundance of graduates chasing too few jobs - market forces then prevail. We try to hire graduate programmers and they start at 35k+ for a 23yo. Also Thailand has this silly notion about the age 30. Many graduates get low salaries for 7 years then all of sudden quadruples when they hit this magic age. So yes, most young graduates are low paid but Thai business considers them apprentices until they hit 30.

 

I do agree its all debatable, but one thing is for sure the "picture" most of us get from knowing girls from the rural areas is FAR from 'average" here.

 

Look at a Thai Airways junior pilot - salary is 49,000 a month starting level. In the West his mortgage would cost him 50% of his salary however big it is - here his mortagge is less than 15% of his salary which means his spending power is higher.

 

interesting stuff. I didn't know programers got so much, or about this 30 thing.

 

The 7,900B figure i got for teachers is what my current gf is on as a contract teacher out in the sticks.

The state teachers get more, plus I think a job for life?

But they fill the gaps with contract teachers who seem to get the short end of the stick on everything.

 

I probably didnt' put it over well, but I was trying to say that pattaya is not normal thailand. Much more money flys around the place and many people refuse to work there because it may tarnish their name. Being mostly mongerers on the forum most of our sources will come from around patts which probably distorts things upwards.

 

Good point on the spending power.

I suspect a thai earning a quarter of what I do probably has a better standard of life. Aside from the UK being voted one of the lowest quality of life places to live in europe, everything is bloody expensive here.

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The Noodle sellers reckon they earn 10,000 bht a day. Not that difficult when you do the maths.

 

10000 bht a day ,i mite aswell give up my job at home,move over nd sell sum noodles but i don't think

2many thai ppl wud buy there food off a farang.

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my mrs works 2 jobs, sells insurance for aia, subsiduary of aig, she get about 7,000 baht basic a month though she did say that one of the girls earns about 60,000 but works her fingers to the bone, all goes on commission so if they do the leg work then can get a good wage, her second job is she is a cheer beer girl for hienekican/tiger and she gets 12,000 a month for that, but that also is commission based

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Dont disagree mate but a couple of points.

 

Low paid workers, the very bottom, make up 30% of the workforce. If we assume 10% are the eluive hi-so that makes 50% just normal middle and lower middle class.

 

Pattaya is NOT normal Thailand, never has been and never will be.

 

I am not sure where you get that teachers salary from. I know several teachers in State schools in Sattahip - all have new cars and houses. You couldn't buy a new car on 7,900 a month as the lowest repayment is 7000. Maybe its all made up in "extras".

 

Uni Graduates making 10,000?? This all depends on the Uni' and the age, it is impossible to generalise. Thailand has such a high university entrance level that you end up with tin pot degrees and an over abundance of graduates chasing too few jobs - market forces then prevail. We try to hire graduate programmers and they start at 35k+ for a 23yo. Also Thailand has this silly notion about the age 30. Many graduates get low salaries for 7 years then all of sudden quadruples when they hit this magic age. So yes, most young graduates are low paid but Thai business considers them apprentices until they hit 30.

 

I do agree its all debatable, but one thing is for sure the "picture" most of us get from knowing girls from the rural areas is FAR from 'average" here.

 

Look at a Thai Airways junior pilot - salary is 49,000 a month starting level. In the West his mortgage would cost him 50% of his salary however big it is - here his mortagge is less than 15% of his salary which means his spending power is higher.

 

 

interesting stuff. I didn't know programers got so much, or about this 30 thing.

 

The 7,900B figure i got for teachers is what my current gf is on as a contract teacher out in the sticks.

The state teachers get more, plus I think a job for life?

But they fill the gaps with contract teachers who seem to get the short end of the stick on everything.

 

I probably didnt' put it over well, but I was trying to say that pattaya is not normal thailand. Much more money flys around the place and many people refuse to work there because it may tarnish their name. Being mostly mongerers on the forum most of our sources will come from around patts which probably distorts things upwards.

 

Good point on the spending power.

I suspect a thai earning a quarter of what I do probably has a better standard of life. Aside from the UK being voted one of the lowest quality of life places to live in europe, everything is bloody expensive here.

 

The 7,900 Baht figure is the government rate for a new teacher with a BA. It is a little higher for a new teacher with a MA. The other side of the teaching scale is the teachers that have been there forever and are now government officials. This can add up to 60-80k Baht to their salaries. I know two teachers where I work that earn salaries of over 40k and are paid additional bonuses of 40 and 60k a month.

 

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Went to Laos this year and the barman in an english owned cocktail upmarket bar was on £60.00 a month. About 3000 baht and he had to speak reasonable english for that. Criminal

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Just what i know:

 

Nursing assistant in a specialist hospital.....9k basic, 11k with a lot of overtime, one day off a week.

Office worker with large multi national........12k basic, 14k with overtime, weekends off.

Back home and waiting for the next trip! Which aint long now!!!!!

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Many farangs I have worked for wont pay more than the going rate for a Thai which is barely more that 10-12k and while they have these people under employment they whinge and moan at how stupid they are and how they are lazy etc.

Then there is the other type of farang that pays 30-40k for a good secretary who never goofs around, never spends work time chatting to friends or long lunch breaks and actually improves the work environment.

 

You get what you pay for and if you want to pay cheap, expect the same in quality and performance and if you whine about it, your a tosser :GoldenSmile1:

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I've seen quite a few different guesses on this board about wages/saleries that the Thais recieve.

I'm interested to see how close or far off the mark we are from the real figures. So here are a few jobs that I'm interested to know your opinions on:-

 

Noodle soup seller on Sukhumvit

 

Gogo bar girl

 

QC controll worker factory

 

Taxi driver

 

 

Assume all these are around the Bangkok area

 

I think it would be hard to to get it right, as according to all of the above they never have any money and always seem to be out of money, but from what i know and have observed

 

Noodle soup seller on Sukhumvit-approx 45K-50K per month

 

Gogo bar girl- from 13K to 700K per month( need to consider all the sponsors)

 

QC controll worker factory -salary of up to 10K/month, but could also get triple that on the side if doing something shifty, and they usually do

 

Taxi driver-50K plus per month

 

Very often we assume some people do not make big money from what they say or how the dress, but then just look at other factors. Noodle soup seller may drive a brand new car, so much make enough money to be able to pay it monthly

 

Taxi driver says he does not have money, but next minutes places 10 000 baht on football game.

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I chatted to a cute TG while having noodle soup last month on soi boukhow and she worked in a Family Mart shop and she earned 28 baht/hour :GoldenSmile1:

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lady working at bangkok bank currency exchange booth 2nd rd 10000b per month,receptionist at hotel 6000b. havent got any proof but thats what they told me.

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My 1st GF was a GoGo girl, told me once she could earn up to 25,000 baht a week, but was always broke, typical Gen Y, must have the very best of everything at all times, had to buy her a pair of genuine Levi's once, copies were not good enough for her, cost more than they do in Oz.

 

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The agogo girls are believed to be one of the highest paid jobs in Thailand among the doctors. judges, .

 

Met a GoGo lady once that a mate was humping around, that was a qualified engineer, but could only earn 20,000 working at her profession, said she could earn 4 times that hawking the fork, mind you she was a real looker.

 

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Some more monthly salaries:

 

High school teacher, beginner: 9k per month.

After 20 years work experience: 22k per month.

Army sergeant after 20 years: 15k per month.

Guard at office or school building, working 12 hour shifts, one every day, never a holiday without pay cut, 9k per month.

Cleaning lady in public school, ten hours workday, 5.500 baht.

Policeman, beginner in the job: 12k.

 

Policeman after 10 years and including tea money 200,000 !!

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Policeman after 10 years and including tea money 200,000 !!

I am sure this exists but far from all of them get this much. Also, if a policeman has had a problem in his career, he will be stuck with the traffic police for years in some obscure part of Thailand as punishment from his superiors.

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i can comment on bangkok on what we pay our staff

 

 

hair stylist 12,000 baht a month (which means must have gone to school and have the papers to prove it to cut hair)

 

wash and blow dry manicure pedicure staff 7000 a month

 

massage staff guarantee 6000 a month but get 50% comission on top as well.they can earn 15,000 to 20,000 a month they do help out with the cleaning etc thou.

 

plus free food drinks during working hours.thats just what we pay dont know about their tips thats theirs.

 

woman over the road works in an import export place selling crackers,the food ones. basic 15,000 but has targets to reach but some months 30,000 when she sells loads.

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Office worker which are graduated have a salary of about 15'000 Baht. If they stay in they job a few years they easily earn more than 20'000 Baht per month, with 5 Days work per week. But many of them also give some money to the family (parents).

 

As other already wrote it seems a lot when you see amounts of 50'000 or more but it is not impossible. But you also have to think of, that not every person earn this money.

Also the fact, that the average income in Thailand is around 5'000 Baht, depends mostly on the small salary from the Isaan farmers. If you stay and work in Bangkok you become much more money per month than the average.

 

And talking about bar girls, this you can't compare with the rest. But what is important on the BGs is, that they can't work like this till they are 50 years old. And with around 30 or 35 the good money is over and if they still couldn't find a man for live, then they have to live from the saving account which mostly is quite empty. BGs need also a lot of money for clothes and other expenses like mobiles and and and...

This makes is even more complicated. A BG which earned 50'000 Baht per month comes to an older age and not earn this money again, what will she do... it is always much more complicated when the money flow go down. In comparison a office worker still can become more money with the age. Of course never so much like a bargirl but she also never lived a so expensive life.

 

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