<p>Why would you tutor for 10 when you could get paid as a sitter for the same amount?</p>
<p>$20-25/hr sounds great for a recent high school grad. I don’t think someone with little experience should charge more than that.</p>
<p>(I have an MA and lots of teaching experience–I tutor several families that are of modest means–I’ll take anywhere from $8-$15/hr. IMO $20-25/hr would be a more reasonable rate, but they pay what they can afford. (I’m not making a living off of this, it is more of a “ministry.”) Same mom who pays $8/hr for tutoring once paid me $10/hr to babysit! To be honest, it is easier to tutor her kids than to babysit them!</p>
<p>Oh yes, atomom. My son can’t be a babysitter (can’t even watch my 7 year old very well) but he’s a great tutor. He also will have a sliding scale depending on the family’s financial situation.</p>
<p>Besides Craigslist, what else have people been able to use to get tutoring jobs?</p>
<p>D1 got her jobs through word of mouth. She started with one when she was a senior in high school, by the time she graduated from college she was working with 3 or 4 kids regularly. Teachers from her high school also recommended her. I wouldn’t have let her advertise on Crailglist. </p>
<p>There was one young lady, her mother would book d1 even before she came home for breaks, and it would be for 4-8 hours a day for few weeks. D1 would help her organize her notes/tests, and try to keep her off FB while studying for exams. It was more babysitting than tutoring. The mother would pay D1 50/hr. D1 used the earnings to subsidize her low paying internships.</p>
<p>Word of mouth, homeschooling community, church, email lists</p>
<p>Craigslist sounds dangerous. Every town area has free newspapers. We advertised in those for a very small fee…maybe like $60-$80 for several weeks worth of ads…word of mouth definitely helped, especially when those kids were seeing positive results…ads in the school newspapers…we had a very catchy name…I’m not going to list it for obvious reasons…ads at local supermarket bulletin boards…teachers at the school also recommended him…</p>
<p>My daughter gets about $15-20 for 2 girls. She found the job through word of mouth.</p>
<p>I’m a tutor year round (for Peer2Peer Tutors). Beginning hourly wage for tutors is $12, and the most you can earn as a tutor is $17 an hour.
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<p>My S (will be a freshman at Harvard) is working as a tutor this summer - he charges $40 an hour in an area where the going rate for freelance, albeit, college graduate tutors is $50+, and tutors through a service are over $100 per hour. He also created a website with lots of useful information, including links to resources and homework postings. His clients (the parents, that is) have told him that he’s a steal at $40 because he comes to the sessions well prepared so the hour is so much more productive than they experienced with other tutors.</p>
<p>To garner business, he sent a link to his website to any and everyone he thought would be interested, and asked them to pass the link along to others.</p>
<p>Gourmetmom, what does he do to come prepared? Does he buy SAT books or have students buy them? Just wondering about the logistics and what a tutor does. My kids never had tutors so I have no idea what they are expected to do, but I can imagine for my youngest this is a job he might have to do.</p>