Analysis of the Salary Gap and Rationality between Chinese and Foreign Teachers in Private High Schools in Hangzhou

Abstract

In recent years, international cooperative education has flourished in China. Private schools began to introduce foreign teachers, the huge salary gap between domestic and foreign teachers began to appear. But the rationality of the high salary of foreign teachers remains to be verified. This article takes an international school in Hangzhou as an example. Through interviews and in-depth communication with this school’s students, domestic and foreign teachers, the salaries and contributions of domestic and foreign teachers within the school were analyzed. Based on the theory of human capital and the theory of distribution according to work, the rationality of the wage gap is analyzed. Finally, this paper concludes that there is an imbalance between the distribution of education degrees and wages in this school, and the distribution of wages does not conform to the theory of human capital and distribution according to work. Given the problems obtained from the research, this paper also puts forward solutions such as strengthening the quality screening system of foreign teachers, improving the salary standards, and changing the ideas of parents.