Susan Wise Bauer Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Folks, I have a question for you. What's the range of hourly fees that academic tutors in your area charge? We're doing some research on this here at the office, and I'm guessing that the Charles City County standard is probably lower than elsewhere. :001_smile: Really interested in your experiences... SWB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcadia Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 $30 to $50 per hour for private tutors. Can go up to $100 per hour for community college/university lecturers. If the tutor has a good reputation, parents will drive their kids to the tutor's home and pay top of the range tutor fees. I'm in Silicon Valley, Santa Clara County. ETA: Music lessons would be $15 to $50 per half hour depending on teacher's experience in teaching for competitions. The low end would be music lessons for leisure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purpleowl Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 I tutor mathematics - middle school, high school, and some college courses. I think $40/hour is fairly normal for my area, maybe $50. (My rate is a bit lower than that because I adjust to account for the small people who are underfoot during my sessions.) Oh, and I'm in Tallahassee, Florida. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
regentrude Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 I only had experience with a foreign language tutor. $20/ hour for private lesson, $30 for two students. We live in a low income area; our town has a median household income of 30k. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maize Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 We pay $20 per hour for our Chinese tutor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiguirre Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 $20/hour for a tutor with a math and special ed credential and $35 for one who is a Board Certified Behavioral Analyst in a suburb of Houston. My guess is that these are both on the low end of the range but I'm a steady client with a flexible schedule who always pays on time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prairiewindmomma Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Our local state flagship university allows you to join a small tutoring group for $75/semester, which meets weekly. Students working as tutors earn $10/hr. Private tutors (typically college students or SAHMs) for homeschooled students range from $8-20/hr. depending on credentials and certifications. Specialized tutors range from $20-30/30 min session. I live in the Midwest in a university town full of Ph.Ds working as baristas or retail clerks. For reference, basic motel room housekeepers earn $8/hr. here, piano or string instrument instructors earn $30/30 min session. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
73349 Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 I charge $40/hour, and I think most private tutoring is about that rate here (Raleigh, NC area). I'm a certified teacher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLMom Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 $30/ hr for dyslexia tutoring Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowbeltmom Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 $40 - $70 per hour for high school subjects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom2scouts Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 $35 to $45 per hour would be common in my area although college students will often do it for less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angela in ohio Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 University math tutors are $40+ per hour. $40 for a grad student, and then up for more experience. That would be for Ann Arbor, MI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AimeeM Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Completely depends on creds here. For a tutor with no degree in the specific area (or general teaching degree), less than $20; for teachers with a general education degree, about $20-ish; for a specialized tutor, like an OG tutor, $50+. For music lessons, we only pay $10/half hour, but it's only that low because we are his first students and he's fresh out of college with a music degree; in general it's upwards of $20+/half hour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beishan Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 My son's reading tutor charges $60/hr. His violin teacher charges $45/per 30 minutes. His 1st grade teacher charges $90/per 45 minutes for summer tutoring. It was a sticker shock for me and I never used her. Luckily we found current tutor who has good reputation and better qualification (OG certified and reading specialist for 20 years). I think her rate ($60) is pretty resonable for my area (NJ). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kathy in Richmond Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 I charge $35 per hour in Richmond for math tutoring, a little more for calculus and up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucy the Valiant Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 I charge $40 - 50 / hour for academic tutoring (depending on location), and $60 / hour for test prep tutoring, 2-hour minimum sessions. I'm a certified teacher, and we live in a high cost of living area. (Edited to add: Other tutors in my area charge as high as $75 / hour for college coaching and / or test prep; in the large city I'm near, it's $100+ / hour.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElizabethB Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 We have lived a lot of places! Things like this really vary with the COL. Piano teachers and tutors vary with the area where we have lived. $20 to $50 per hour in low COL areas depending on their experience and if they come to the house or you go to their house or studio; $40 to $100 per hour in high COL areas. ($100 was for piano teachers that come to your home in expensive area of Los Angeles.) OG tutors were $50 to $75 in Los Angeles. When we lived in Northern Virginia, we rented from our FIL, he did needed repairs to the house while we could be there to oversee. We told him only half jokingly that it would be cheaper to pay for airfare, a few days vacation and hotel while he did the renovation at Arkansas tile rates and still come out ahead from the going Northern Virginia tile rate. (Bathroom re-do, bathroom in light pink and light blue tile and toilet!! Our daughter was 5 then, I gave up trying to decorate around it before it was redone and went with it--I bought pink and blue Hello Kitty towels and a light blue bath mat and called it good, at least one person liked the bathroom. Actually, all my mom friends agreed it was a good fit for the colors and said their young girls liked it too.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dmmetler Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 $30-$50+ hr depending on teacher experience and subject-special Ed tutors with training in specific programs are the most pricey, chains like Kumon/Sylvan/Mathnasium where the tutor is working through their curriculum with a handful of students are the least expensive per hour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roadrunner Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 I only know for music. We pay $55 for 45 minutes. We are in a very high cost area in coastal CA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmilyGF Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 My friend (went to Caltech, female math major, has tutored for 15+ years) charges between $60-$80 per hour. Her husband (physics major at Caltech) charges about the same. They live in a wealthy Chicago suburb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
City Mouse Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 I live in a very rural, low income area. You would be lucky here to find people who would pay $10 hr for tutoring. (The going rate for babysitting is $25 per day for 9hrs for an infant) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teacher Mom Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Spanish tutors are $60 to $80 dollars per hour in Ohio but that is for someone who has a B.S and Masters in Spanish and Secondary Education. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lewelma Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 I charge $50/hour for math tutoring and the students come to me. Music tutors go for $50-80/hour (we go to them), and mandarin tutors $30-50/hour (they come to me) (there are a lot of Asians here who are willing to tutor for a song because they just want to pass on their language and culture. Our Asian-NZ tutor was $30 but our european-NZ tutor is $50). Also, I think you need to make a distinction between a homework helper and a tutor who designs the program. Homework helpers are much cheaper; I would say $20-30/hour. They just help out with whatever you bring them on the day. In contrast, music and mandarin tutors design the program, find the books, set the homework etc. I work in the same way. I design and implement year-long programs to clean up messes in mathematics education. I also charge less for people who simply cannot afford my price but are willing to commit for two 10-week terms. The NZ dollar and cost of living here is about the same as in an American moderately wealthy suburb. Ruth in NZ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxbridgeacademy Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Our local state flagship university allows you to join a small tutoring group for $75/semester, which meets weekly. Students working as tutors earn $10/hr. Private tutors (typically college students or SAHMs) for homeschooled students range from $8-20/hr. depending on credentials and certifications. Specialized tutors range from $20-30/30 min session. I live in the Midwest in a university town full of Ph.Ds working as baristas or retail clerks. For reference, basic motel room housekeepers earn $8/hr. here, piano or string instrument instructors earn $30/30 min session. This is us as well, except music lessons are $15-$20 per 1/2 hr. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momofeat Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 I am an Orton-Gillingham tutor. I charge $25/hour, and my children are present. I know of two math tutors that charge $20/hour. We serve the mountains of northern NC and East TN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FairProspects Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Wow, I would love to pay tutoring costs like some of you. A qualified tutor here in high demand areas like math or foreign language runs $60 per hour. Certified teachers charge $35-50 per hour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan Wise Bauer Posted July 9, 2014 Author Share Posted July 9, 2014 THANK YOU! So appreciate the feedback. SWB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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