The “insulting” salary of a graduate teacher with 10 years experience

A graduate teacher in the UK with the same experience can buy a house easily–and travel abroad for holidays 2 or 3 times a year, and can own a nice BMW or Benz.

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This amount, 2200 GHS is how much you will spend in a month if you just decide to have once a week breakfast at Holiday Inn or Golden Tulip in Ghana. And if a graduate teacher who has been working for 10 years cannot eat at such places once a week, then what’s the stress all for in this life?

My argument is that things are super expensive in Ghana–and the people are paid peanuts.

You can find a Marriott or Holiday Inn hotel one night stay for less than 100 pounds in every country in Europe–in Ghana, they will ask for 400 or 500 pounds per night.

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The Ghanaian system as it stands breeds corruption. Unless you are corrupt, you can’t live good (and I mean this)–you cannot have any of those modern posh apartments or houses to call your home.

How many people can buy a car on their current salary in Ghana. In the UK, your minimum wage salary of about £1,400 per month can buy 3 good running cars per month. Minimum wage of a month in Ghana of about 200 GHS cannot even buy a single decent meal at Golden Tulip.

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Why are they doing this to us and people can’t even see it?

A lot of you cannot even go out to a nice place to eat or drink once a month–because a sitting is your entire monthly salary. Common good ambience and food cannot be afforded.

And let me add this, don’t try to get a loan in Ghana–the interest from the Banks alone will kill your unborn children.

In such a system, your only option is to be corrupt–to live better.

—Chris-Vincent Agyapong