English teaching?

As I understand it, english speakers can generally charge between 100 rmb and 200 rmb per hour to teach. I believe you can go beyond that if you speak some mandarin, are a qualified or experienced or good teacher, have relevant business experience/vocabulary, or if you have a particularly desirable accent.

The upper bracket somewhat surprised me. Apparently though, the market is very similar to that in HK - wealthy families or corporations.

I've been asked a couple of times to teach. I would be particularly interested to teach executives for industries relevant to consulting... but otherwise my time is distinctly precious and so I don't come cheap at all.

It's a case of supply and demand, but I've already found myself in one potentially embarrassing situation - to help my landlady's grandson practice English, in exchange for mandarin coaching with my landlady's daughter. Sadly however, I think it was hoped I would be more keen to engage than I actually am - given the distinct abundance of mandarin speaking opportunities here, and my urgency to learn mandarin but not really to teach English.

An MBA classmate has asked me to meet with her company to see if I could help out. I'll find out more next week.