English teacher salaries abroad: the tefl.ie Salary Index
English teachers on this index earn between €480 and €2,349 a month before tax and before housing. The highest verified figure is Hungary’s CETP state-school scale, HUF 850,000 or about €2,349; the lowest is Mexico at the legal wage floor, roughly €480. Ten destinations, every figure taken from an official pay scale or programme circular.
Pay figures checked 5 August 2026 against official programme sources · hiring windows re-checked 22 August 2026
Thinking of teaching English abroad from Ireland and wondering what you would actually bring home? This index tracks real teacher pay across Europe, Asia, the Gulf and Latin America, quoted in local currency and euro. Each figure is pulled from an official pay scale or programme circular, dated when we verified it, and corrected in place whenever the source changes.
The pay desk
The Salary Index
Every line on the board, in one sortable table. Pay in local currency with euro conversions, checked against official sources and refreshed with every edition.
| Where & programme | Monthly pay ▾ | Window / timing | Signal |
|---|---|---|---|
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Hungary
CETP, state schools
|
Hungarian state scale national avg HUF 850,000 ≈ €2,349 |
Rolling · January intake next | LIVE WIRE |
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Czechia
AIA state school register
|
CZK 30,000–35,000 / mo gross ≈ €1,240–1,450 |
Term began 1 Sept | LIVE WIRE |
|
Portugal
Fulbright ETA 2027/28
|
€800–1,689 / mo grant depends on host contribution |
Closes 6 Oct 2026 | LIVE WIRE |
|
Spain
NALCAP language assistants
|
€800–1,000 / mo stipend | Shut 30 June, no new date published | LINE CLOSED |
|
Türkiye
Istanbul private schools and universities
|
Set by school national wage floor ≈ €516 net |
Term starts 14 Sept | LIVE WIRE |
|
Mexico
Private and bilingual schools
|
Set by school legal wage floor ≈ €480 / mo |
Term began 31 Aug | LIVE WIRE |
|
UAE
Dubai KHDA private schools
|
Set by school, tax free no statutory teacher scale |
Staff returned 24 Aug, pupils 31 Aug | LIVE WIRE |
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Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh City language centres
|
Set by centre agree pay before you fly |
Rolling, year round | LIVE WIRE |
|
Colombia
ICETEX international experts
|
Hosted mobility terms set per university |
Closed 7 Aug 2026, no new date published | LINE CLOSED |
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Oman
Ministry appointment cycle
|
Pay varies no statutory expat floor |
Ran 5 to 30 July | LINE CLOSED |
Euro conversions at the European Commission’s August 2026 rates
Updated 22 August 2026: Colombia’s ICETEX round closed on 7 August and is now marked LINE CLOSED. It had still been showing as a live deadline. Hungary’s CETP line has moved off its fixed August arrivals date to the rolling intake, with January as the next clear window.
Updated 3 September 2026: the UAE row carried a FLASH signal against a date, 24 August, that had already passed, which made a closed window read as the most urgent line on the desk. It now reads LIVE WIRE, matching the dispatch board. The Czechia and Mexico rows have moved from “term starts” to “term began” now that 1 September and 31 August are behind us. No pay figure changed, and the check dates above were not moved, because no source was re-read on this sweep.
Official sources, dated checks, honest corrections
Nothing on this desk is guessed. Every rate and rule is read from the official source, stamped with the date we checked it, and fixed in place the moment the source moves. If we get something wrong, the correction is printed where the error stood.