How much should I pay a GCSE tutor?

[TenoringBehind]

Tutor is a recent graduate who is currently working as a teaching assistant at a secondary school but planning to do teacher training in September. They’ll be giving one of my children a bit of extra help over the Easter holidays in preparation for GCSEs.

Good friend’s son and they’ve just said ‘pay what you think is right’. I’d rather err on the generous side of that but don’t even have a ball park figure. Midlands not SE prices though.

[Indoctro]

My primary aged child has a tutor he charges £30 per hour. We have him twice a week for 1 hour each time.

[MrsPnut]

We pay £30 an hour too but he is a qualified teacher in the subject.

[Viviennemary]

I agree with around £30 per hour.

[7eleven]

I think £30 is too much for an unqualified tutor. I’d give him £20.

[justasmalltownmum]

£20 is enough

[rutabagger]

I pay £25/hour for a GCSE tutor. Retired teacher, Midlands

[TenoringBehind]

I’m glad this has popped back up. He’s starting next week and I still hadn’t reached a conclusion. My feeling was that £30 was a little too much because he isn’t a qualified teacher yet. I’m going to offer £25 I think. He’ll be doing a few hours over the course of a week or so.

[rosesinmygarden]

We pay £25 for a graduate tutor.

We also pay £35 for Science and French, and £45 for maths, all qualified teachers and online. I feel the French and Science are on the cheaper side, despite being highly qualified. I charge £44 for 11 plus/entrance exams online of face to face at my office.

£25 per hour if they are traveling to you and prepping and providing print outs etc is fair.

[Frankincense88]

I charge £30 an hour for GCSE tutoring and I'm a qualified English teacher of 5 years and an Examiner for Pearson. West Midlands for context. For someone who is unqualified and also unlikely to be familiar with the assessment objectives / teaching the content for the GCSE subject I wouldn't be paying more than £15-£18 maximum!

[Greatoutdoors]

Ours charges £25 in person or £20 zoom- qualified teacher NW

[BriocheForBreakfast]

We're in the south east. We've been paying a qualified teacher (who is also an Edexcel examiner) £40 an hour. DD has stayed with him while studying for A level. She has a session once a week and usually has a break during holidays.

[LetHimHaveIt]

I think £25 is generous for an unqualified, newly-graduated TA. And I speak as a (middle-aged) TA with no reaching qualifications. I suppose there might be some advantage in using someone for whom GCSEs are not a distant memory. Still - I think that's too much.

I'm approached quite a lot to do tutoring and probably will, eventually. I'm planning on charging somewhere in the order of £15-20 ph.

[yellowtotebag]

£15 is a bit too low, tutors without QTS get more than that round here and are about £20. Tutors with QTS charge upwards of £30.

[BonnesVacances]

For someone who doesn't have in depth experience of the exams and therefore only content, I'd expect to pay £20 an hour.

[LynetteScavo]

I pay 30ph online - Former head of maths- he's an excellent teacher and knows exactly how to get a very reluctant teen to work.

I'd expect someone with no experience of tutoring to charge £15 -£20 while they build up experience. Being able to do something and being able to teach it are two different things.

[TenoringBehind]

I offered £25 because I wanted to be on the generous side of acceptable. He’s the son of very good friends of mine and doing times of our choosing.

Most of the tutoring has now taken place.

[Naenaespet]

Based on my family's experience, we're South and for face to face a well reputed and good qualified teacher (Maths for us) was £45-75. We paid for a tutor who was phenomenal (from grade 6 to 9 we hope!) for one of our cousins and I did so much research. We are so happy with our choice as she has flourished more than anything, it's not just about the grade, she seems confident!

If you're outside of London/Home Counties then I'd say £35-60