What is a reasonable cost for A-Level tutors?

[PoloMum]

I have just been quoted £160/hour for an online tutor for A Level Economics. That seems horrendously high to me. I was expecting something in the region of £60-80 per hour.

What is a reasonable hourly rate for a qualified (ex-teacher) tutor in other MNers experience?

That's very high.

A level maths is usually 30-50 - uni student or beginning teacher.

If you want examiner or the person who writes questions it'll be a lot more (but they'll be very good).

Have a look on TutorHunt - it will give you a good idea of prices - I would say between 45 - 70. (But averaging around £50 for decent tutor at that level
I have used for my Dd before a science tutor (50) ; maths tutor (£45)
https://www.tutorhunt.com

That is absolute madness. I think between £25 to £45 would be reasonable for an hours session. Maybe a bit more but not the price you were quoted

That sounds a lot. I pay £60ph for DD’s A level maths tutor and I’m in south London (and he’s a full time tutor so it’s not a side hustle).

I paid £35/hour for GCSE English tutoring a couple of years ago, and I was expecting A Level tutors to be more expensive but not by this much!

That is high but there is a massive shortage of employed Economics teachers. I don't do tutoring. Not for any amount of money!

Why don't you sign your child up for UpLearn instead? I don't work for them but haven't heard anything bad about them.

That's crazy
I'd be looking elsewhere, remote, or try uplearn or Seneca first

I’ll have a look at UpLearn, I hadn’t heard of them before but at first glance it looks good.

My DC use Uplearn for Economics. It’s v time consuming as it goes into great detail for absolutely everything in the syllabus. You can get a free trial (I think it’s 7 days iirc).
Def worth doing the trial to see if you like it.

£25 for a full hour of bespoke, one-on-one tuition delivered by a qualified professional? You're barking mad. Of course, you could get some feckless teenager to work for those rates.

I charge £35 an hour for A level. That’s an insane price.

So an average mechanic charges £50 to £80 per hour and you think a teacher charging £60 for A' level maths or economics is too much?...... really??

Exactly. By all means, get your neighbour's kid to try their hand at tutoring for tuppence ha'penny. But you'll have no remit to kick up any kind of fuss when your DC doesn't get the grade.