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Should any consideration be given to the type of work system such as the high performance work system or is that not relevant if the driving force for moving to Mexico is lower labor costs?
Should any consideration be given to the type of work system such as the high performance work system or is that not relevant if the driving force for moving to Mexico is lower labor costs?
The post is very confusing as I am not sure if you are talking about working in Mexico or hiring a workforce.
If you are talking about working in Mexico, I give you the following advice from a Doctor who retired there . The local doctors will fight you tooth and nail over patients that can pay you. They will probably win because with the civil service on their side, they can almost always show that you are not licensed properly.
If you want to help poor peasant women, there is almost nobody that will check your credentials.
If you want to teach English you can make a passable income sometimes. Unskilled labor is almost completely out of the question. Many people make a living over the internet, some of whom are involved in the arts.
There are a limited number of jobs in manufacturing as engineers.
If you want to hire a labor force, the problem is that in the search for the bottom, there are many people willing to work for far less than Mexicans. The argument used to be that shipping costs would naturally be lower, and the original vision was manufacturing facilities just on the Mexican side of the border, and R&D centers on the US side. The vision almost never panned out in reality.
If you want to teach English you can make a passable income sometimes.
Depending on experience and qualifications this can range from as listed, passable, to a higher standard of living many times over. I know some teachers here who make over $40,000 pesos per month and they'd be making a whole lot less back in the U.S. or England. This makes for a much higher standard of living as the cost of living is obviously a lot lower. This is not the norm, but teaching at a private K-12 in D.F. can easily make $15,000 to $30,000+ monthly for native speakers with even just a little teaching experience and having a university degree, but not having a specialized teaching degree from their home country. Of course, then you have to put up with those kids, so it's a trade-off I say.
One BIG consideration: Can you get a visa that allows you to work? They are not handed out upon request, you know.
People used to be able to come to Mexico on a tourist (FMM) visa, find a job and then that job would do the paperwork to transfer the tourist visa to a work visa which used to be the FM-2. Now I believe one would have to get a job offer and then start the process for a work visa in the states at the Mexican Consulate.
I know some teachers here who make over $40,000 pesos per month.
VERY rare. Not the norm plus the private schools that pay those salaries is not an easy place to work in. The kids and their parents will drive a teacher insane.
Depending on experience and qualifications this can range from as listed, passable, to a higher standard of living many times over. I know some teachers here who make over $40,000 pesos per month and they'd be making a whole lot less back in the U.S. or England. This makes for a much higher standard of living as the cost of living is obviously a lot lower. This is not the norm, but teaching at a private K-12 in D.F. can easily make $15,000 to $30,000+ monthly for native speakers with even just a little teaching experience and having a university degree, but not having a specialized teaching degree from their home country. Of course, then you have to put up with those kids, so it's a trade-off I say.
I think you added too many zeros to the wages you are citing. Most teachers earn about $6-$7000 a month not $40,000 a month. Police officers are paid about the same which makes graft a necessary way to survive.
The main thing you want to have to work in Mexico is permission to work in Mexico. You can be deported if caught working without permission just like foreigners in the U.S. who are caught working without permission.
I think you added too many zeros to the wages you are citing. Most teachers earn about $6-$7000 a month not $40,000 a month. Police officers are paid about the same which makes graft a necessary way to survive.
The main thing you want to have to work in Mexico is permission to work in Mexico. You can be deported if caught working without permission just like foreigners in the U.S. who are caught working without permission.
I was referring to D.F. You won't find any native speakers working full-time making $6-$7,000 in D.F. even if they have no teaching experience or a university degree...
The $40,000 number is very rare as I admit. But it's not unheard of either. I have a pretty good grasp of the wages as I am a teacher in Mexico City and have three years teaching here.
I don't make anywhere near those numbers, but I don't have the patience for disciplining children (I only do business classes, usually 1 to 1- but even that pays $10,000 to $20,000+ depending on how much you want to work and how many private students you have).
In Mexico the money we talk is in PESOS.....NOT US dollars.
A Mexico $ sign has only ONE slash thru it while the US $ has TWO....big difference.
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