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.

I pay £75 an hour for my daughter‘s A-level biology tutor and she’s worth every penny- you get what you pay for. I wouldn’t take a gamble on a university student with my child’s education. Our tutor is an ex-examiner and very experienced so she just has a way of explaining things to make things easy to understand - worth every penny

I charge £65 for GCSE English and £75 for A level. I don't think that's enough for the hours I put into planning each individual lesson, marking and providing feedback - but it's a price point that's working for me. What you pay very much depends on what you want. Every one of my lessons is planned from scratch for that individual student. Some tutors have a set of content that they cycle through instead. I'm not knocking that, it depends on the subject, the child and the level of need.

You can get them for £30, but a decent, qualified experienced A-level teacher is expensive, varies depending where you are and whether you want in person. Ask how many years they have been teaching at A-level etc.

If your son/daughter needs that kind of input to do well at A level - then it is not the right course of study for them. Will you be tutoring them through degree study as well?

Bloedy hell I wouldn't pay that!

We have a tutor who is retired from a long teaching career having been head of department at a prestigious school. She charges £30ph.

It may depend on subject though. Someone highly skilled at Economics may have access to a lot of things they can do with their time that are very very lucrative and it may just not be worth their time to bother with teaching for only £30. Whereas a similar skill snd qualification level in English Literature, Philosophy or Ancient Greek might have fewer choices for earning opportunities.

DS has just finished GCSEs and someone recommended a brilliant platform called PMT education which has tutors for everything from GCSEs to University (odd name admittedly). It’s on line. You go in and put your subject / exam board/ what grade you are working at and hoping to achieve and your budget per session. There is a profile of each tutor (their teaching style, how long they have been tutoring etc) and reviews.

A levels in some cases were a little more than GCSEs but there was anything from £30 an hour for less experienced ones, or ones who were new to the platform up to £160. I would say the average was 45-70ish.

It worked out brilliant for us as if they work out well you can book recurring lessons.

I would suggest that £50 per hour is probably average now for A Level. A lot of the tutors offering lower prices are probably students themselves with no real teaching experience.

An experienced teacher in a sixth form college is paid more than £50 per hour and gets their pension paid on top. Therefore £60 is a reasonable figure ... you get what you pay for!

The highest point on the pay scale for sixth form teachers is right around £50000/year... do sixth form teachers get paid for only 1000 hours per year?

I charge 50

Nearly everione had has tutors these days, unusual to not, and they are certainly at a disadvantage in the tricky subjects. The maths and sciences are the hardest nationality so I think it’s worth it. She doesn’t need a tutor in her ‘easier’ subjects.