Cost of dyslexia tuition

[hardupteacher]

I currently charge £35 an hour which was the rate suggested by my professional association a few years back. I know that slightly nearer London, the rate is £40 and in London £50.

It's my sole income and I pay tax etc on it, buy materials and photocopy etc. Plus wear and tear on my home!

I am Herts- 35 miles north of London. I feel I am undercharging as most A level tutors charge £30 and I have much more specialist training ( used to teach A level soknow the difference).

If you are a paarent in the SE would you pay £40? ( assuming you could afford £35 anyway.)

Sorry to wee on your chips, but my mum is a dyslexia tutor for adults and she makes a lot less than that (though she doesn't tutor at home, I grant). Guess rates for children are a different thing, I don't quite know where A-level fits in.

Does your mum tutor in a college?
I used to and was paid £16 an hour.

My annual salary as a qualified teacher - after 30+ years teaching- would equate to roughly what I charge per hour- but out of that I also have to fund my practice- which means advertising, cost of buying materials, and pension. ( and no pay during school hols as Iwork term time only)

PATOSS which is the prof. association for SpLD tutors suggested a rate of £35 roughly 5-6 years back, based on a survey of what other professionals charge; it's something I feel strongly about! Solicitors can charge up to £500 an hour and they have the same amount of training in years/univeristy.

Oh, I see. I don't know why but I somehow assumed your professional organization was a body that sorted you out with advertizing and so on (not the materials though). Mum tutors through a charity, so it is meant to be low pay, but if there is something else like that in your area, you'll need to compete I imagine. She buys her own materials and doesn't have a pension, btw.

Sorry - I was assuming other people would come along and give perspective too, mine is a bit one-sided! I think you're pretty underpaid for what you're doing, I just don't know if it's going to be feasible for you to raise prices if the same sort of service is available cheaper elsewhere.

The same sort of thing is not available cheaper elsewhere really. In this area the going rate for any private tutoring is £25 primary, £30+ A level and other subjects etc vary.

Music tuition is actually more expensive-some teachers of instruments charge around £40 an hour.

My prof. association is a regulatory body which helps maintain standards and advises parents.

As a self-employed person I have all the other costs incurred in running a "business" - tax, NI, pension, advertising, hosting my website, etc etc.

I think parents sometimes forget this and think they are paying purely for the time their child is with you.

I just really wanted some feedback from parents in the SE who might be paying for dyslexia tutoring.

Hi Hardupteacher

Are you/do you know a PATOSS member involved in teaching reading? I'd like to find someone who might be interested in reviewing a dyslexia resource - couldn't offer payment but the reviewer could keep the resource.

I pay £40 for a 1.5 hour lesson for my child (at our house) in the Midlands. Seems to be the going rate around here.

just to clarify - it's with a specialist dyslexia tutor

Hi Hardupteacher

Sorry, I don't have any advice and hope you don't mind me butting in, but I'd really like some advice about Dyselxia Tuition. I'm not in England so not a potential client, would just like to run a few things by you regarding my dyslexic child, if you don't mind.

If you don't mind offering advice, do you have an email address you don't mind sharing?

If you'd rather not, that's ok, I won't be offended

Our in-school dyslexia support is just a little bit more than peri music charges - around £20-25 per half-hour lesson. Most students do two half-hours per week for about 2-3 years. The support is provided by Dyslexia Action.

BLueberry- is that support 1:1 or 2:1- I know DA used to teach more in pairs mainly.

1 to 1 for sure. I have never hear of working in pairs.

Oh DA deos it a lot- they run classses in some of my local schools after school- and most of the children are taught in a 2:1 situation; I know because I have talked to DA about it.

I'm not a tutor but am in business and business doesn't really work as simply as that.

What others are charging is a starting point but you also have to consider how many hours in a day you need to fill compared to them (and you may not know that). For example, someone doing this as a sideline only, may be prepared to charge £25 an hour (as it is only a supplement to their income) others with little time to fill may charge £50 because if they get the work then that makes it really worthwhile, if not, it doesn't matter to them. From what you have said it is your only job, so your prices need to be pitched to fill your available teaching hours.

Do you have a professional body which you are part of which gives guidance on area rates?

Then you have supply and demand. Specialist is great on one hand - probably not that many of you about - but it also means you have a smaller cohort to get your work from. You will ned to think through where your contacts will come from as the better quality contacts the likely better rate you will be able to achieve. Usually, tutors once up and running find new work comes from recommendation if they are good.