<p>Recent discussions about expensive SAT classes and tutoring providing benefits to the wealthy made me wonder what the going rate is for SAT tutors. Any idea how much a fresh high school graduate with very high PSAT/SAT/SAT2 scores and some, but not extensive, tutoring experience, could make per hour doing this over the summer?</p>
<p>The recent high school grad would need something MORE than just a high PSAT/SAT/SAT2 score to market themselves as a tutor. They would need to be able to teach someone else strategies to improve scores, and take the test. They would also need some kind of track record on demonstrating this. Many high scorers just score well, but honestly don’t know how or why they did so, other up than they knew the material.</p>
<p>How much would I pay a recent high school grad? NOTHING…because I would not hire a recent high schol grad for this job.</p>
<p>The tutors we used earned $60/hour. One is an English teacher who has been tutoring for many, many years. She knows the CR and writing sections inside and out. She targets her tutoring for specific weak areas. The math tutor we used had also been doing it for years, and also targeted specific areas (as shown on the PSAT and first time S1 took the SAT). The math tutor we used for about six one hour sessions, specifically because S wanted to bring up that score. The CR/writing tutor we used with all three kids, spread out for a few months before they took the PSAT, and then again for a few months between the PSAT and SAT. </p>
<p>I would not pay a recent hs graduate for SAT tutoring. I would, however, pay him for simple math, reading or writing tutoring for a younger child. (I wouldn’t pay a recent hs graduate $60/hour for any tutoring.)</p>
<p>Certified teachers in this neck of the woods get $40 or so an hour for regular tutoring tutoring. A high school graduate with no proven track record wouldn’t earn nearly that much, if anything at all.</p>
<p>I didn’t use SAT tutors, but when I hired a math tutor several years ago for a couple of sessions! it was 60 or 65 an hour. She was a middle school teacher and did lots of SAT coaching for that twice. It was 6 or 7 years ago. </p>
<p>We used a woman to tutor S1 in math. It would have been around 11 or 12 years ago. She was an Ivy League grad who had majored in math, and she charged $100 per hour.</p>
<p>I would be surprised if a recent high school grad with little tutoring experience made more than $10-15 an hour, if that. I probably wouldn’t hire them, but I could imagine there’s someone out there who would.</p>
<p>Agree with #2 ( Thumper)
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<p>Very similar to Eastcoast. For English - retired teacher who had been tutoring for years and also geared her tutoring to students weaknesses. She also tutored on how to take the test - specifically teaching student to recognize specific identifiers in types of questions so student would know immediately what was being asked. I think I paid $50/hour but it could have been $75. Started in Jan. of Junior year as his PSAT scores were dreadful. </p>
<p>Math tutor was a teacher and my son only had a few sessions over the summer before Sr. year. I think I paid $60/hr. </p>
<p>This was 4-5 years ago. </p>
<p>I would not have hired a recent high school grad. </p>
<p>Yale graduate tutor my S…$75 for 1.5 hrs!!! I had the BEST:)</p>
<p>My daughter got $30/hr tutoring as a freshman in college–I think the tutoring co. charged $60 (and I think she should have asked for a raise). My son got $175/hr in graduate school (and I think i should be working for him!)</p>
<p>I am sure it varies according to how in demand the tutor is and in what region of the country you live. I bet that in New York City, parts of CT and MA, and perhaps in parts of California, the rates are sky high for the “right tutor”.</p>
<p>Harvestmoom, I agree, the rates would vary. But hiring a newly minted high school grad to tutor for the SAT would NOT be something folks I know would do. NO track record on preparing students for this exam. </p>
<p>The rates where I live are in the order of $60-65 an hour for tutoring from a high school teacher. Occasionally, students from our local college do SAT tutoring but the rate is much less. I think the going rate is $12-15 an hour. I hadn’t even considered a high school grad - no one here would have been interested in that. There are courses offered for SAT prep that seem to run between $1000-$1500. In our house? We bought the books. That was I think $30. </p>
<p>I live in the Northeast, and the rate here is $250/hour, which I think is a crime. </p>
<p>^ I live in the NE and I paid nothing near that. However, in downstate NY (NYC, Westchester & LI, southern CT) they pay that much. </p>
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<p>They’re coming… eventually.</p>
<p>I’m quite sure that $250 an hour is NOT for a newly minted HS grad!</p>
<p>I can see why someone would prefer a teacher with long experience and a track record, but I have to wonder why a college student, or even a Yale grad, would be seen as a more reliable tutor. They aren’t studying the SAT in college.</p>
<p>And, no, I was not expecting $250/hour. </p>
<p>@emilybee - I live in the NYC area, where everything costs a ridiculous amount of money. </p>