What is the going rate for tutoring?

[KCmike]

Calculus in KC is $50-65 dollars per hour.

 

[comicguy]

In Northern NY State I get 25/hour for tutoring

 

[happymommy]

That is way too low! Even when my kids went to Huntington we paid much more than that.

My son gets tutored in math by a retired principal (he has a PhD) and we live in the DC/Baltimore area.

I pay my son's tutor $45 an hour if we meet at his house. If we meet at school or the library it's $50 an hour.

At my kids' old school, the teachers had to charge $45 an hour, and weren't allowed to charge less and undercut each other.

 

[itutorfortravel]

Hi, I am a math tutor and work with children in grades 5 -12 (and sometimes college level). I am a certified teacher in secondary math with a Master's degree. I charge $40 per hour for students up through 8th grade and I charge $50 per hour for students in high school (or middle school students who are taking Algebra 1 or higher). I have had my own business for about 6 years now and have charged the same amount for all these years. I very rarely have anyone question the rate and my schedule (thankfully) stays as full as I want it to be. If it were me, I would charge $40 per hour for the grade level you are considering tutoring. If you were hoping to start up a business and wanted to attract new customers with a lower rate for the first semester or something like that, I might do $35 per hour. But I wouldn't do any less. Hope that helps!

 

[janets]

My 8th grade son's math tutor is a lovely young man who previously taught HS math. He charges $50/hr and because we were added to his schedule only a couple of months ago we had to try and fit into his already super full schedule, so we meet on Friday evenings at a local B&N. If his previous appts cancel, he'll come to us (he did in home yesterday). I know that he declares everything, as I forgot to bring the $50 bill last week and asked f it was okay to write him a check (didn't want to screw him up...his tax situation is his business). He told me no problem, everything is declared.

I hope to have him working with DS through HS. DS is in honors math (Algebra 1) and has had some struggles with it. Next year is Geometry and we're a Physics First school so I'm sure he'll need help going forward.

We were so lucky to find this tutor. He's young, bright, really motivated and wants the kids to succeed. He tutors the children of 2 co workers of mine. We're hoping that when school starts next year and the older HS kids are gone, he'll be able to rearrange his schedule and fit us in mid week at our house.

I really think you can charge much more than $15/hr.

 

[Lynn CC]

We hired a language tutor for our son when he was in College in Boston.
$125/hour
She was her tutor for a year and a half, for 4 hours every week. It was worth every penny!

Did you try doing a search on Craigslist for tutors in your area to see what they are charging. There is usually quite a range from free to very expensive.

Craigslist is where my son found his tutor, I was skeptical at first but she was the most dedicated person.

Good Luck

 

[mrs.beast]

N.California here. south bay area going rate for a credentialed teacher to tutor elementary $60-80. HS/college curriculum tutor is $75-100. Non-credentialed tutors are 35-60 depending on their expertise.
It is the same up the peninsula up through SF. However, in the east bay etc it is much less. Going rate for credentialed is about 35-50

 

[DisneyLoverUSA]

The teachers around here charge between $25 and $30 an hour and do it at THEIR home. You have to go to them.

Some of the teachers do after school tutoring at the school and do it for free.

 

[JamesMom]

Wow. Slightly off-topic, but I was (yes, past tense) considering a tutor for DS6 who is ADD/ASD and behind in reading for the summer. Seriously? $40-$80 a week for a couple of hours? At these prices, I'll buy a textbook on pedalogy and tutor him myself! Too bad my master's is in sociology (was even a graduate TA) or I'd tutor as a part time job. Makes me super grateful for the resource teachers he has at school.

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

We were paying $50 an hour 7 years ago for a tutor for DS. That was for 3rd grade math, and we took him to the tutor's house.

Right now we have a friend tutoring him in Chemistry. I can't even begin to imagine how expensive it would be if we were paying for it.

 

[MrsPete]

Last year I paid $25/hour -- cash, straight to the tutor, no taxes, no records -- for my daughter's math tutor. Money well spent.

 

[princesssatheart]

Depends on where you live, but anywhere in the northeast you should not charge anything less than $40 per hour. You have extensive experience so that costs more. Maybe if you were a new college graduate looking for resume experience I would charge less, but that's not the case. I have a Master's degree and 15 yrs experience and charge $50 an hour.

 

[daileyad]

At these prices, I'll buy a textbook on pedalogy and tutor him myself!

Sorry - I just can't help it. Pedalogy, is that the study of bicycles

 

[BrerMom]

My district wants to pay us $25 an hour pre-tax to teach summer school. They also won't tell us how many students they are planning to assign to one teacher. Since current class sizes are over 30, I would guess 25 is a minimum. They seem confused that they aren't getting any takers.

I know I "should" charge more for tutoring, but, as a parent, I just can't ask another parent to pay that. My compromise is one price if they want one-on-one help & a lower price if they agree to have their child share the hour with another student, usually the same grade/subject. Everybody seems to win.

 

[Pembo]

I have tutored for 2 companies and on my own. I charged $15/hour. I wasn't doing it for the money, I was doing it to help the kids.

The best math tutor in our area is a 25+ year teacher, she charges $20/hour. Again she isn't doing it for the money, she does it because she loves math and loves kids.

Another reading tutor in the area who has excellent results charges $20 as well. The school districts all suggest $40/hour to the teachers as the going rate.

A teacher at my school will tutor kids for free if they ask.

Charge what YOU feel comfortable with.

 

[disney<333]

My DD's high school in Parkland, Florida charges $60 an hour for Math and that is in the teacher's room. The school is zoned for the richer part of town and many people living in mansions attend the school.

 

[BrerMom]

It's interesting to me how many school districts participate in charging parents for tutoring. That would NEVER happen here. Charging your own students (or your own building's students) for tutoring is considered a conflict of interest. I rarely tutor for pay during the school year, partly because I really don't have time and partly because it could get me disciplined (if someone in administration decided it was a conflict of interest). During the school year, I tutor students in my building or my previous students for free.

If we want to tutor at the school during the summer, we have to rent a room and the parent has to sign a form that this is independent tutoring, not organized by the school. The school will provide our names as willing tutors on the same list as high school tutors if the parents call the counseling office asking for summer help, but the parents have to sign the same form saying they understand the district is not monitoring us.

A lot of my district's decisions seem to be based on avoided lawsuits.

 

[Ariel Mae]

my husband and i tutor together and we charge between 10 and 20 an hour for th both of us. we find that anything more, and most cannot afford it

 

[itutorfortravel]

I agree that you need to charge what you feel comfortable with, but for those who suggest that $50 / hour is too much, please consider the following...

First, for some people who tutor (like myself) it is a primary income. And, if you claim the income on your taxes (like I do) then you are earning even less than what you charge. And if you spend time outside of the tutoring session to communicate with teachers, prepare materials, etc. (like I do, your "hourly" rate diminishes as well. So my $50 / hour really equates to somewhere between $10 and $15 per hour "net" when I take out taxes and divide my rate over the time I actually spend preparing for my students. It's hard to live on $10-$15 hour! So just because some of us charge more than $10 - $20 per hour for tutoring doesn't mean we love our subject or our students any less than anyone else does, it simply means that we need to be able to make enough money to survive.

I realize I could charge much, much more than I do. There is another tutor in our area that charges as much as $90 hour for math tutoring. The only way to get his rate down is to commit to a full year or full semester of tutoring and you have to pay the entire amount up front! And even with that his lowest rate is $70 / hour. And his schedule stays full. I feel good with what I am charging. It's been the same amount for 6 years now and I have students who have stayed with me from middle school all the way through high school, so apparently my rate is not out of line.

Think about how much we spend on our children to play sports, take music lessons, etc. It is a small fortune. Isn't their academic performance just as important?

So bottom line, yes, charge what you feel comfortable charging. You need to sound confident when you talk to parents and they ask for your rate. But before you "low ball" yourself think about what you will actually earn when all your time and taxes are taken into account. You need to be able to "afford" to work after all!

 

[rainydayplay]

I'm in south Alabama. My school offers after school tutoring 2 days a week for an hour each day. The school has a grant and uses it to pay the teachers, so it's free for the parents. The school pays us $25 an hour. We're in a very rural area area.......my school literally sits in the middle of a cotton field..........so I'd be surprised if our parents could even afford the $25! I guess the rate would really depend on where you live.

Also in South Alabama. My school pays us $25/hr for after school tutoring/remediation but only for grad exam. Anything else is done at school for free. We also get paid $25/hr for summer school, but the students do it all online. All you have to do is make sure they are getting their work done (help when they need it, etc.)

I used to work for a tutoring company out of Nashville, Tennessee. I was paid $25/hour, but I had to travel 30-60 miles to the students and provide my own materials. Really wasn't worth it, as I was often having to do just one hour at a time.

I also used to tutor for Sylvan. I believe they charged $45/hr, but the teachers got paid under $9/hr and you had up to 4 students at a time. (I rationalized that with the materials were provided and it was a shorter drive....)

I agree with the thought that it's up to you and what you feel comfortable being paid.