To ask how much you pay/paid for a tutor?

[Sparklfairy]

A friend of mine is looking for a tutor for her DC, She has found one she likes the sound of but was moaning to me about how expensive she is.

Obviously its not the same, but I used to be a self employed cleaner, and occasionally you would get people acting all shocked at my hourly rate and try and haggle me down. Its not like I was or this tutor will be laughing all the way to the bank, and the tutor has more work to do than just turning up for the hour. I also think that with any service, if you get the results you want then its good value, rather than going cheaper and being dissatisfied.

So its touched a nerve, and I can't be an objective friend if you have or have had a tutor, how much did you pay? We're in the SE.

One-to-one tutor, not an agency, secondary level, comes to our house, London - £65 per hour.

I am online Primary in SE and charge £30 as that is the rate around here.

I am a tutor (secondary, subject specific) and I charge £25 an hour for online; if I come to someone's house I add in petrol costs unless it is walking distance.

I think that's pretty cheap but I love doing it. My subject is kind of niche for tutoring - I suspect if you did 11+ or maths or English (esp maths) you could/would charge more as they are vital and more sought-after.

Not SE btw, as I guess that makes a difference.

DH is a secondary/A Level tutor. He charges £45 for Primary, £50 for Secondary and £55 for A Level.

We are SE

Should also add that he is fully booked and has around 10 people on his waiting list, he currently has 10 students a week.

£38 English tutor (yr 7 child)

@Wisewordswouldhelp

£38 English tutor (yr 7 child)

Oops just checked its £45

£40.00 an hour, secondary level online Maths tutor. (Midlands based in case that makes a difference.)

Wow, my friend is getting a good deal then! £35/hr, in person (though she does live very locally).

I'll pass it on and try not to be too smug

I pay £40ph for my son's maths tutor, she's brilliant.

£20 per hour online via an agency and she's a fantastic tutor.
All tutors are vetted and are university students, often post grad.
I'm a teacher myself and I'm very impressed with the service and level of tuition / feedback.

We joined a tutoring "school" where we pay £15 ph but children are in groups of 4 or less. It actually works really well for ds as he found 1-1 quite intense but loves these sessions.
Would something like that be a better option?

I pay £30 pH for 5 hours tutoring, 2 hours Maths, 2 hours Science and 1 hour English each week as his special secondary school is so crap and only teach for 3 1/2 hours per day. I'm West Midlands and have 3 Fantastic tutors.

£50 per hour but I teach A level and insist on minimum of 2 hours to make it worth my while (e.g. can be 2 children at 1 hr each)

@Chr1stmasCarole

We joined a tutoring "school" where we pay £15 ph but children are in groups of 4 or less. It actually works really well for ds as he found 1-1 quite intense but loves these sessions. Would something like that be a better option?

Thanks @Chr1stmasCarole I'll mention this to her. Money isn't an "issue" in terms of disposable income but she's hinted that she's resentful that £35/hr is more than she earns, therefore its "too much" her DC may benefit from small groups without friend having to pay the premium of 1-1.

I do like my friend by the way it just annoys me when a good service isn't valued as it should be, for spurious reasons i.e. my friend earns less!

£35/hr is more than she earns you don't say what subject is being tutored, but depending on that, there may be about an hour of prep involved (I certainly need at least 45 minutes to plan and prepare resources for my lessons, though of course I can reuse if I am teaching another student the same spec - which seems to happen very rarely!); then there is at least 15 mins of marking of any HW set. Does your friend earn less than £17.50 an hour? That's only about £30k a year.

Online tutoring has really taken off so she should shop around the U.K! For example, ds has an English tutor who lives in the NE and we're in the SE £28 an hour. It's usually £40+ here. Just check they're familiar with the syllabus your child is using.

We had an online tutor for Dd A level chemistry. £35 an hour twice a week for a couple of months. Raised her "awarded" (covid) grade from C to an actual A when she sat the autumn exam. Worth every single penny.

I have paid £60 an hour for a total of 5 sessions. All for maths, year 12/13, for specific things.

I should think she's just moaning. She must know that calculating an hourly rate for a fulltime salary with all the benefits included to compare with a single payment is silly. Fact is, demand is high. She can offer less and probably either not get a tutor or get one she's not as happy with. I'm certain there are good tutors at a lower price but I paid a premium for urgent availability and very specialist knowledge.

I sometimes tutor. I charge £35ph mates rates for genuine mates and £45-50ph for anyone else. By the time you have prepped lessons and travelled to and from a session, you are getting not much more than half that amount per hour.

Yes @PermanentTemporary she hasn't really considered how different it is from her own job, which is turn up at 9, do the job and go home at 5. When you're SE there's so much more work outside of the "hours" you're paid!

It's not just the tutoring time - each lesson takes at least an hour to plan and prepare for plus chasing student to find out what topic they need help with, timetabling, rearranging plus travel time, petrol, parking, business insurance plus the cost of books which the exam boards seem to change in a yearly basis (one set for each of the for exam boards - each board is very specific in their requirements).

£30 per hour for A-level tuition by a qualified teacher, online through an agency.