<p>Another thread mentioned "expensive private tutors".
Now that piqued my interest! I wonder what the going rate in different parts of the country are??? We used a great tutor who was a teacher here in MN at a local private high school. She was fabulous! Only charged $25 an hr and wanted to work with her for 1 hr per week for the 6 weeks before the test. We thought it was a bargain, especially when D1 improved enough to be slotted in highest level of scholarship awards!!!</p>
<p>It really depends on the tutor. When I was getting math help, I think we were paying $85 per session (about two hours or so!) Realize that this is NY and the demand is high.</p>
<p>I bet there will be a wide range by areas of the country. Was curious to see what the "average" per hr will be.</p>
<p>We are in NY tri-state area. Last year my daughter was paid $50/hr for tutoring. I think a fully certified teach could get $75-$100+/hour, so the family thought they were getting a huge discount with my daughter. We paid $125/hr for SAT turtoring.</p>
<p>TX - D tutored her last 2 years in HS and was paid $20/hr. Certified teacher gets $30-35/hr.</p>
<p>I tutored as a senior back in high school and got around $15-$20 an hour.</p>
<p>My current roommate (MIT undergrad in chem and math, current chem grad at Caltech) is making $50 an hour tutoring some kid. Last week he worked something ridiculous like five hours just helping her in AP Chemistry. Living in LA, figure he's tutoring somewhere in a wealthy area of LA.</p>
<p>$100 an hour is the average around here, with some SAT tutors charging well over $200, and some charging over $300 (love that $20 Blue Book).</p>
<p>Going rate at my school is $0/hour. Most (student) tutors here tutor through NHS and aren't allowed to charge for it, although we do get 3 points per hour. Last year, when I tutored independently of NHS, I charged $10/hour.</p>
<p>Man, I envy you guys who get paid $20/hour....</p>
<p>EDIT: Oh, and I'm at a Georgian public school.</p>
<p>Licensed teachers get about $60/hour for individual SAT tutoring. The average commercial places in our area were getting $70/hour 2 years ago. My guess is that because of this economy they have not raised fees by much, since they count on a certain volume to make it.</p>
<p>The popular general subject tutors around here are getting over $100 per hour, typically 110 or 120 an hour. SAT tutoring can either be similar to that or between 200 and 300 per hour for the priciest of them.</p>
<p>NJ- High school students who tutor around here make close to $60/hour. Private SAT tutors tend to be around $200+/hour.</p>
<p>D2 was lucky enough to get a UCLA senior in neuroscience to tutor AP Physics at $40 for 1st hr and $30/hr after that. D1 tutors a high school student in Honors Chem back at Haverford...going rate is $30/hr...but is charging $20/hr since he comes to campus.</p>
<p>Spanish tutor $30.00- grad student
Math tutor $50.00 retired high school math teacher
Educational Specialist- $70.00 all subjects plus organizing. This through a private company
Math tutor $15-20 high school student
These all were a few years back so the rate is probably higher.
SAT tutors - higher</p>
<p>Writing tutor (retired teacher) - $50/hour</p>
<p>Greater Boston area. Math tutor, former HS teacher-65 bucks per hour</p>
<p>Central Nj - math tutor/ middle school math teacher. Pretty much all the teachers in our district charge $75 per hour for middle and high school math tutoring. My daughter tutored for free in HS (NHS), then charged $25 an hour in the summers for algebra and geometry. She tutors at her college where they only pay tutors about $15 and hour, but plans to charge $50 and hour this summer when she'll be a college grad.</p>
<p>CT here -- paying $90/hr. for SAT tutoring for DS.</p>
<p>we've paid for general tutoring- $60 hr for teacher, $50 hr ( 2 hrs at a time) week, for a educational psych.</p>
<p>CBBB, is this for a tutor that you found on your own, or is it through a company?</p>
<p>We paid 70/hour for a company who provided the tutors. They also did throw in a few freebies (ie: monitored timed tests every few weeks at no charge).</p>
<p>northeast -- found on my own. For DD we tried the "weekly classes from a major prep company" route and found it to be a waste of her time and our $$. (And it wasn't exactly cheap.) Much better to pay for 1 on 1 where tutor can focus on specific ares where DS needs help.</p>