Quite frankly I'd consider PD to be a downside of the job, not a perk.

I doubt most of us are willing to spend 80 hours of our time crafting out cover letters that often don't even get read.

$1,000 a month?

Yeah, that's definitely settling. No, I don't care even if it was your dream location, got you IB experience, and you only had 3 contact hours a week - it's still settling. And settling for something absolutely awful, no less.

How the heck did you even find such an awful job? It'd be hard to actually find a school paying that low.

@sid

The problem is that writing an individual cover letter for each school is just completely unrealistic. A candidate might well be applying to 50+ jobs and writing out an individual letter for each one would just take too much time.

I'd say write out a generic letter, and for your dream schools add in a few lines in the body of the text which make it seem like a personalised email. Schools that are just so-so, that aren't your dream but you'd still work there should just get the standard letter with the name of the school changed.

Plenty of UK unis offer distance learning MA's for £5,000-£7,000. Should pay itself back in around 3-4 years.

If you're British, and can give the address of someone you know in the UK (i.e. family or friends) you can even make a profit off your MA by applying for the £10,000 government postgraduate loan.

Don't write a personalised cover letter. It takes way too long given the number of applications you'll likely be making.

Have a standard letter, change the school name, add in a couple of sentences relevant to that specific school. That'll be all you need.

All that stress, all that work, all that expense...for something that could be just as easily accomplished with a 30 minute Skype interview.

These fairs are very outdated and I can't see them lasting much longer.

Dating is a big reason to pick EE over WE, for sure.

You can't support a family in Germany on one salary unless your idea of good living is 4 people to a room living on bread and water.

The schools even tell you this themselves on Search.

You get no benefits from those taxes unless you stay 10+ years, it's just money down the drain. Unless you count helping a bunch of Syrian refugees with your money to be a 'benefit'.

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You can't suggest trading WE for EE is the same as trading EE for the ME. While my view that WE is a hardship place seems to be a minority opinion, absolutely everyone agrees the ME is a hardship destination, and few think that about EE.

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Well unless you personally know the recruiter at AIS Bucharest and they've told you there a 16% tax, I don't see how you can state such things with confidence.

Regarding Austria, I don't see why schools in the same city cannot have different compensation packages.

Even if there is a 16% tax on the $51,500 (which there probably isn't), that's still $43,200. https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/Bucharest says a 3 bedroom apartment outside the city centre is $420, with utilities been $100 (whereas your 3 bedroom place in Munich is quoted at $1700 with utilities). So chances are you could spend just over $6,000 of that housing alowance and bank the other $13,500. No matter which way you slice this particular cake, it's quite clear which place you'll have more money in. And it's not a bit more money, it's a very significant amount more.

Agreed, you want to be pulling in serious money for the hardship of having to live in that giant cat litter box.

It's like I said before...recruitment fairs are toxic events and should be avoided. Hopefully some more people have now seen the light.