£60 an hour for a Math tutor?

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My child in year 8 needs a Math tutor. I have found one who comes to the house and has quoted me £60 an hour. Is that the going rate?

I have another child in year 5 who has a weekly tutor and they charge £30 ph.

Any advice appreciated

I guess, particularly in London, there are people who are willing and able to pay a lot and if you are in a circle where that is what others pay then you would just go with it. The main difference with expensive tutors may be connections, presentation and discretion and people will be happy to pay for that too.

I pay £35 an hour for a maths tutor covering GCSE Higher tier. In my experience this is the average in our area, Central England.

unhelpful answer but to me £60 sounds a bit steep, £30 unusually cheap. tutors have to travel between lessons & get a fair few last minute cancellations and so on

the numbers do not add up here.

Many kids who got 9 at GCSE scored well above 90% and close to 100%.

on the other hand, a lot of teachers, who teach Maths, are rubbish at Maths themselves and can’t teach for toffee.

That’s UMS not raw scores. When you take it on a raw mark basis and correlate to topic areas, it can be that high.

2023 203/240 = 9. That’s over 15% and can easily mean some topics are completely missed. Think about a grade 8 (honestly anything below and you’d be naive to think they can tutor your child).

there’s a reason why a grade 7 GCSE (“A”) is most likely to get a C or D at A Level - so much content not understood that needs to be developed.

Also my experience is that I write maths papers for GCSE. 😄😄

Why should the prior charge more?

This is correct. I used to tutor. The hourly rate covers prep - often as long as the teaching hour itself, as well as travel time to and from the student's home, So £60 divided by 3 (one hour prep, 30 mins travel either way) minus fares is not a huge amount for one to one tuition.

You referenced 203/240 so this was the grade boundary for a 9 for Edexcel Maths. By the way, their boundaries use raw marks. 2014 wants their UMS back 🥱

you seem to not making any logical point here. What does the correlation between a grade 7 and A Level grades have anything to do with this conversation? How about grade 9 students will most likely to score A* at A Level? It does not have anything to do with this does it?

I raised the point that just because the grade 9 boundary is 85% does not mean that all grade 9 students will score just 85%. Many of them will score more than 90% or even close to 100%. They will have an excellent grasp of the syllabus.

just because you write exam papers does not mean you know anything about students’ ability to tutor or the inability of many so called teachers to teach Maths.

£60 for an "experienced" tutor, qualified teachers who taught in schools, was about the going rate last summer in London, face to face at our house and direct with a tutor. Via agency the rates were £70+.

However we didn't get along with the two "experienced" tutors we hired. One was very good but really unreliable changing the lesson day and time pretty much every week and the other English tutor was just plain useless and nowhere near 11+ standard. For the last 3 months before the exam we hired a math student from Imperial College who had been through the 11+, knew the process and was a motivated person in helping get the best out of DS. He was £30/hour face to face at our house.

I’m paying £45 an hour for an experienced maths teacher - critically one who ‘gets’ DS. Wiltshire.

Oh GCSE, year 10, will sit foundation paper

I charge £50/hr for KS2 maths and £60/hr for 11+ prep maths in London, which is the going rate in my area.

Wow. The disrespect towards the teaching profession lives on.

I teach and tutor. What I can.give you is a degree and Masters in my subject, years of experience.interpreting the spec, thorough knowledge of teaching the spec, knowledge of how the spec's assessment objectives are turned into questions, how to gain and lose marks, exam time management requirements, years of being an examiner and the combined knowledge of my colleagues who have also examined, and perhaps most importantly, an understanding of specification updates and attendance at training seminars when new specifications are introduced.

I charge £35 for A Level and £30 for GCSE. I have plenty of repeat work with siblings, cousins and parental friendships. Sure, you can get cheaper but you won't get everything else.

From what you described, you need to charge more!!

This is way too cheap. Even if you tutor online, taking into account preparation time, setting homework and marking homework time if you do these outside of lesson, then you do not earn much above minimum wage.

Sorry wouldn’t be paying some kid £15 ph you need a proper qualified teacher so yes that fee sounds about right.

Ours got dd1 from 4/4 in her mocks to 8/8 in the actual GCSEs for science. Worth every penny.

She was a fully qualified teacher in the subject who taught at a top name public school. Some things you skimp on some things you don’t.

We pay £40 for a retired head of maths. He’s been worth every penny and we would pay more if he asked/raised his prices

The teacher is working on the assumption that you are probably not good at maths either and so has extrapolated his charge by a factor of 'x' and then added 'c'.

We paid £40 an hour

But I'd have reluctantly paid £60 if that was the going rate

DD requested a tutor so I found one and she did ok in her GCSEs.

Far better than without one that's for sure

The tutor started off by asking what DD struggled with. Tutor then formulated a plan moving forward

They met online and in person

Tutor was a younger female which suited DD well because they really connected

DS is a maths genius but sadly not great at tutoring his little sister even though cold hard cash was offered

Plus he'd never have put in all the extra work required behind the scenes between tutoring times based on each lesson

I Tutor Club tutors normally charge £50 an hour for an online lesson. All their tutors are qualified teachers

We pay £90 an hour but with a very well known maths teacher. He designed a maths platform that most schools use now.

Wow. The disrespect towards the teaching profession lives on.

Probably because there are lots of people claiming to be tutors who are actually quite shit.

Last year we used an "11+ tutor" via an agency. He was a teacher during the day. He clearly did not prep for each lesson, rocked up each week and picked up a mock paper off DS' desk and asked him to sit and write. Didn't show him what good looked like and unsurprisingly DS didn't really make much progress. We persevered 5 months then replaced him with someone much better.

Anyone can call themselves a tutor.