My friend and I are trying to find a tutoring job...but I am not sure how much to ask. Where I used to live...people charge like 25-30 easily, but hmm that's a really rich and academic orientated neighborhood.
If you're a good student and have the grades, recommendations, activities, etc. to prove it, I think you could easily charge $20, if not more, an hour for tutoring, prolly even $30.
There are a lot of parents out there willing to fork over that amount of cash to ensure their kids' educations, especially the affluent Asian ones. :P
I think it depends on what you're doing. For little kids, you should charge less. Most of the time, parents just give me money for gas and stuff without me asking them.
What is the neighborhood like where you are tutoring? Or is it the rich academic-based neighborhood?
Man, I once tutored this middle school kid whose mom totally took advantage of me... while my friends were getting paid 15-20 dollars an hour, she paid me 6/hr consciously. I didn't mind at first because I thought I was kind of a lame teacher anyway.
Then the student didn't even do what I told her to do and expected to just get answers from me. So I ended up not trying that much, lol. It wasn't worth the gas money.
Depends on the neighborhood you live in. I charged about $15/hr for some of the local middle schoolers here in a pretty middle class neighborhood. I've obviously never tutored AP or SATs because I don't really have any qualifications for that as I'm only a rising senior, lol.
My school has a free after-school tutoring program where I tutor for free, but some people wanted extra tutoring on Calc BC at the library, and they insisted on paying. $10 an hour seemed reasonable.
I used to tutor people for free, and then some kid double-booked me with another tutor. So I should probably start charging. I mean, I love tutoring and stuff, but kids should realize my time has value.
