tutoring - what hourly rate?

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I'm thinking about doing some private tutoring. I am a qualified primary teacher, so would offer maths and literacy tutoring. But I don't know how much to charge. Some websites suggest around £15 ph, but I know some people are paying £35-40 ++ ph. I don't want to be greedy and price myself out of the market, but nor do I want to work for well below market rate.

I have a few leads on people who want tutoring already, and they've asked me to name their price.

I used to tutor but the deal was that the mother looked after my children while I taught her ds. I then charged £10 ph, but it was a different situation, and amongst friends.

Any ideas?

If you're in London or the SE I'd have thought £25 per hour minimum.

Specialist 11+ tutoring is more, I think, for one-to-one, though people do groups as well, which probably costs less for the individual parents but brings in more overall, iyswim.

£20-£25 is the going rate unless you are a specialist (e.g in dyslexia) in which case the price goes up.

I think you should ask £25

Thank you.

One of the people who has asked me has Yr6 and Yr1 dc. She is going to home ed them but wants a tutor a couple of hours a day to cover maths and language. I assume if I was doing both dc at the same time then I would charge a bit more than the £25, as I would have double the preparation to do. I was thinking maybe £35 for her.

Groups is also a possibility, although I am trying to keep it to during the school day so there's least disruption/childcare for my dc.

It depends on how much experience you have- such as 1 year post PGCE etc or 25 years. You also need to consider travelling costs, if you are going to have to buy books/materials etc etc.

The going rate in the SE- north London- is around £25 hour. In other parts of the UK it's less.

Can I suggest what you work out what you would be paid per hour if you did supply- depending on your position on the pay scale?

Annual salary divided by 195 working days, divided by 5 teaching hours in a day. It is prob. no less than £20.

I pay £18 per half hour for music tuition for my son.

£20-25 I'd say.

We pay £18 for a tutor that comes to our house.

We have paid £30 for 11+ tutoring at the tutor's house.

Both for an hour, we are in SW London.

One was a retired teacher, the other a current teacher.

I am a very experienced teacher and do tuition on the side: I charge £27 p/h for GCSE, £28 for A level and £30 for undergrad. I will be putting these up in September though by £2 per hour each.

Round my way some people charge upwards of £45 ph for the grammar school entry tuition - I say the parents are stupid to pay them that much!

i am a stupid parent paying £40 per hour!