Yep,
Membership of a fitness club will set you back, maybe 2000 RMB/12 months. Your style of life apart from that will cost you at most 1500 RMB/month. In Jilin city, you'd expect a salary of between 10000 and 12000 RMB monthly for the job you're willing to do. As for proper medical insurance, forget it. It'll cost a bomb! But your employer should offer you 1000 Yuan for a two- semester contract,for you to pay for any medical expenses you may incur,or if you take out your own medical insurance, which will be pretty basic at those prices! You should be able to get it in two parts, each at the end of each semester, even if you haven't spent a penny at the doctor's nor taken out medical insurance. As for overtime, that concept doesn't go down well with Chinese! Actually, they'll pay less than the ordinary rate in many cases, and they don't consider weekend work or evening work as overtime at most private training centers.If your prospective employer doesn't offer you paid holidays, basically equates to a salary of a fixed amount every month for each of the number of months your contract encompasses plus holiday travel allowance of between 2200 Yuan and 2600 Yuan for a two semester gig, you'll know he's a penny-pincher! Make sure your quoted salary is not gross, ie before tax. Otherwise you could be duped by being short-changed on 'fictitious' tax payments to the tax body there, though no tax is in fact paid! Though you're officially entitled to exchange up to 30% of your salary on a month by month basis only into foreign currency, it's possible to change the rest on the black market - usually shady characters outside the main Bank of China in the city. Don't worry about finding them. Go there, and they'll find you outside the bank! Bringing your own vehicle over is a waste of money. You can buy or rent one, but I don't think that's necessary! Demand total reimbursement for a one-way tourist class flight ticket for a two-semester gig.
Beware: anything agreed orally will likely be denied later! Private employers may cheat you out of end of contract bonuses, last month's pay, and flight reimbursement! Make sure said employer can get you a Z visa!Working on L's or F's compromises your possible clout with him, besides being illegal, which will necessarily prevent you seeking independent arbitration in case of an unresolvable dispute.