<p>Ok, here's the predicament: I need some money. </p>
<p>Ideally, I want to tutor for some spare money (looking for $40 or more per hour).
Some previous tutoring experience. Anyone know how much that Kaplan's down at Westwood pays? Any other good tutoring places close by? </p>
<p>I have managed to get students during the last two years because of my SAT scores, but I have never taken an SAT prep class so I actually have no idea what is taught or what it is like so I want to try to teach an SAT class so I can better my own tutoring.</p>
<p>Dude, no one's going to ask you for tutoring if you charge 40$/hour.
My old tutor had a PhD in Physics and a MS in Math and he only charged 20$/hour.</p>
<p>Well apparently my old students did. PhD and MS aren't useful in the SAT business. It goes to the issue of specificity. It's good that he has a PhD in physics, but what does he know about the SAT? What I am looking for though is like actual employment (at maybe $40+, maybe a little less depending) by a reputable tutoring company near UCLA before I try my hand at some entrepeneurial tutoring endeavors.</p>
<p>haha my sister was an English major who graduated from UCLA and taught students up to $60/hr...but then again she was really good at teaching and earned a respectable reputation in my city.</p>
<p>besides moldau, i have some vague suspicions with all the talk about dating tas and professors that the $20 is a discounted price due to err... sextra credit.</p>
<p>current undergrads usually don't charge more than $20, maybe a few extra bucks for gas .</p>
<p>getting $40 an hour is tough unless you've graduated from college (preferably now a grad student) and are traveling to people's homes. my brother a current grad student works for one of the big tutoring companies which charges like $80 an hour, which he says maybe $30 of. for his privates, he charges around $50, which is the going rate in LA for a grad student tutor WHO TRAVELS TO THE HOUSE. when i was a senior in HS my physics tutor was a UCLA PHD candidate and he charged us 40 an hour, and he traveled to my house about 15 minutes from campus.</p>
<p>back in my high school some private tutors charged at least $80, with an upwards rate reaching $120. if you can break into a certain market (and have years of teaching experience) you can practice daylight robbery. but that takes connections and perseverance.</p>
<p>these are not all rules, just trends. who knows, maybe you'll get lucky.</p>
<p>Kaplan pays around $25 for the new hire. I think you have to go through some training too, obviously.</p>
<p>There is another prep only for math, and for younger kids. Their pay is less, but if you like little kids, then you'd enjoy the job. The place is called Mathnasium. [probably not for you ijreinsn, but maybe for others]</p>
<p>Also, you can take a look at the Daily Bruin classified. I don't think even Beverly Hills listers who want thier young children tutored would pay $40/hr., from what I have been scanning.</p>
<p>as another pricing example a friend of mine was tutored by a language professor at ucla, full on PHD who oversaw hundreds of students. her rate? $65 an hour, and came to the house.</p>
<p>do u have a talent that can be performed on the streets? i've always wanted to play the piano, dress up as a bum, and put a money jar out by me somewhere, lol</p>
<p>Hey, it's not sextra credit! In all honesty, if it was sextra credit it would be FREEEEEEEEEEEEE! (Like all that free physics tutoring I got) My tutor was for math.</p>