@Massmomm
60/hr to be a french tutor?
Therapist should be yelling at the client because that is nuts for a language.
Where I live, school teachers charge about $80-90 per hour. A student could charge $20-30.
If you did any tutoring in high school you can include that as part of your experience. I know my younger son did as part of math honor society. He has a friend who works for a company that provides tutoring in NYC. He makes enough to do that part time while spending the rest of his time trying to make it as a musician.
Thank you so much all for all of your insightful responses, they’re really helpful! Sorry it took me long to reply, I just graduated yesterday so things have been pretty busy.
@EyeVeee if it makes a difference, I’m headed to UPenn this fall.
@uwalummom thanks for the point about making a curriculum, that actually sounds pretty fun 
When we lived in NJ, the going rate for a teacher tutor was over 100/hr. Someone offered to pay D1 75/hr because she she didn’t have certification. It started when she was a high school senior, and it set the rate for thereafter. She tutored few students through out college whenever she was home, which worked out really well because whenever she was home it was always around her high school’s midterm and final period. The parents were happy to have work with their kids for few weeks to study for their exams.
One thing OP should be aware is most kids do not get tutored in Jul and Aug. They are away at camps. As far as SAT tutoring, most parents want to pay for experienced tutors, not someone without any track record. I have paid north of 200/hr for SAT tutoring, but I ask for a lot of reference because my kids only had 2 opportunities to take the test.
It’s been a few years but we paid $15 for a high school student and $40 for a teacher. I would imagine $15 is still high enough for a high school student and well above hourly pay rate they would get doing anything else and a teacher now that the economy has picked up some might charge $50. Much more than that is way above the value for the services and a rip-off in my opinion.
I still think you should charge higher rather than lower, not trying to undercut the market. Nobody respects a cheap professional. If anyone asks why you should get the same as a teacher, suggest they ask for evidence of that teacher’s SAT scores.
This entire conversation has been about paying for time, when the only measure that counts is score.
Paying someone $50/hour to add 10 points is a “rip-off” compared to someone charging $200/hour who will get you 200 points. It’s unfair, and crazy, and all of the other comments about the practice of studying for a test…but the ONLY thing that counts are points.
The GREAT thing about being a tutor is there is no way to assess performance. Student comes to class, student takes test, student gets score. If the score goes up…great tutor. Scores don’t change (or go down)…kid had an off day.
Considering all of the money at stake over the next 4 years, saving money on SAT prep is a mistake. Score ROI is the only metric that matters.
Having done this twice (as mentioned before), I wouldn’t recommend the Kaplans of the world, nor would I recommend someone looking for a few dollars (sorry Curly). Getting into an Ivy League school doesn’t mean you know how to tutor anyone on taking a test.
I would ask around to parents who have kids in top tier schools, and ask for referrals. Sooner or later you’re going to find “the one”. We paid $125/hour for group sessions (that were more like $75/hour when you factor in OT), and I’m comfortable that the tutor was worth 3 or 4 points on the ACT. It was a very favorable ROI.
My relative is a tutor in a Honolulu prep school. She has a masters in special education and also certification in Orton-Gillingham (an effective method for working with dyslexia). She used to charge $50/hour but raised the rate. She’s been tutoring for decades and has more business than she can handle. She has been known to raise some kids 3 grade levels in reading in less than a year.
I’d say it’s VERY important to find out what tutors in your area are charging. I know I paid a few adults about $20/hour to tutor my D when she was missing a lot of school back over a decade ago. I have no idea what the current going rate is as I’ve not hired any tutors since then. If you have any good connections with any school, including the HS you just graduated from, that may be a good source of referrals, particularly if anyone at your school is familiar with you tutoring when you were in HS and results you produced for the students you tutored.
Unless you tutored during the school year and have a built in clientele,it seems like you might have trouble lining up enough hours of work to earn much, even at $25 an hour. I think you would probably be better off lining up babysitting jobs, filling in around families camp and vacation schedules. Of course that might depend on where you live. Do you know that there is a huge demand for random, short term tutors in your neighborhood?
At this point, I’d be concerned about getting ANY clients or business.
@yls019 - Your daughter’s tutor is only making a % of that $35/hour. I don’t know what that particular website takes off the top, but I’ve worked for two different companies that way. One made us keep our rate lower, but only took 20%. The other one takes 40% unless you can somehow become one of their magic top people and then you get a higher percentage.