Thread: Salary expectations in Bali

You will need a work visa. Not easy to get unless you have a firm that will act as your sponsor and offer you a job. Wages are very low here with skilled workers earning under 2 million IDR a month, [some less than 500,000].
Working here without a permit may well end you up in prison and a big fine on top, so take care!

You're best bet is to get a teaching position. Not a whole lot of jobs other than that here.

Also can check out Bali Advertiser's employment section. Worth a look sometimes:
Employment Ads in Bali Advertiser - Advertising for the Expatriate Community

For a teaching position here, you need to have your TEOFL certification. Google it. You'll find some places that can offer it.

I work at English First, and they handle all the work visa permit issues. I get about 7mill IDR a month. Not enough to rent a beautiful villa, but defiantly enough to get by.

A shack or a "slum" Jimbo

Originally Posted by Teresa_Sar

Hi, I'm keen to move and work in Bali, but wondering about the salary expectations there. What's the local salary like and what's the locally hired foreigner's salary like?
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Here's an article, 2 years old now,
Education International
that said a pay increase at that time was getting teacher pay up to Rp2,000,000 per month. Let's guess that they have since got another increase to Rp2,200,000 - that is US$242 per month - or about $8 per day. Sometimes poverty is defined as less than $2 a day, so you can see that on that basis teachers are doing OK. But I guess that few people from western countries would be happy with that pay level.

Originally Posted by ronb

Here's an article, 2 years old now,
Education International
that said a pay increase at that time was getting teacher pay up to Rp2,000,000 per month. Let's guess that they have since got another increase to Rp2,200,000 - that is US$242 per month - or about $8 per day. Sometimes poverty is defined as less than $2 a day, so you can see that on that basis teachers are doing OK. But I guess that few people from western countries would be happy with that pay level.

I couldn't agree more. That's why some people think that moving and working in Bali to live a simpler life and to cut some from your regular lifestyle.

What ever happened to that guy PakBruce. He is making decent living teaching English and was living in Ubud.