<p>I’m a third year computer science major in college, and I have teaching experience for The Princeton Review. Trying to figure out a good rate to ask for for tutoring programming to an elementary school age kid. 30 dollars an hour? I looked online and have seen people ask for 20 and people ask for 60, so I’m not really sure what’s a good rate.</p>
<p>just out of couriosity, why would an elementry school child need or want to learn programming?</p>
<p>wow the elementary school kids must be very gifted students to be able to learn programming that young. Many adults try to learn how to program and can’t get the hang of it.</p>
<p>Anyways. If the student is gifted, then that means the parents are probably supportive of them learning more things so you can charge higheer. Maybe $20 an hour.</p>
<p>More than 20$, parhaps 30-50$, depending on the family.
Tutoring a kid that young takes preparation, planning, and creativity, whereas tutoring an undergrad often just means working through their textbook and homework assignments with them.</p>
<p>wwe: I haven’t actually met the kid yet, though it seems like he may be some sort of genius, haha</p>
<p>I would say it depends on the family. If they are of modest means probably 20-25, if you think they could afford more maybe in the range of 30-40. Personally I would ask them what they think is fair and negotiate from there.</p>
<p>There’s not a whole lot you can teach an elementary school kid about programming. I know this because I tried to learn Java (along with my friend) in fourth grade, and I was too dumb at that point to figure out anything beyond the simplest linear programs. I’d say you really can’t charge anywhere near 60 bucks because that would just be a rip-off.</p>
<p>I always based my tutoring rates on the value of my time in the area, not the needs of the student. You can lower your rates for “simpler” subjects (or students), but that just gives you more opportunities to fill YOUR time for progressively lesser money. Remember that you are also going to have travel and preparation time, which are generally uncompensated - depending on the area, your $20 an hour could actually represent a commitment at $10 per hour of your actual time.</p>
<p>I pay a high school senior $20 an hour to tutor my son in biology. I pay a retired professor $40 an hour for math tutoring. The HS girl comes to our house. My son goes to the prof’s house.</p>
<p>Sorry to intervene but when I read “the HS girl comes to our house” I immediately had dirty thoughts about that haha.</p>
<p>So I was thinking $30…does that seem right? Travel time is about 40 minutes in a bus each way. </p>
<p>Note: They live in a nice part of West LA, so I’d actually assume they’re fairly wealthy.</p>
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No. That’s only $12 an hour assuming one hour sessions. I would not normally tutor for that low a rate.</p>
<p>I would say 40 dollars an hour. Depending on how many times you do it per week or how many hours, you may want to lower the rate. (Two one hour sessions a week for 75 dollars, or something like that). </p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Ouch, I agree wtih cosmicfish. You could explain about the travel time, then ask for more. Believe me, as a busy mother, I would pay more for a college student if he/she would come to the house, because MY time is worth something! I offered to bring my son to the HS student’s house, but she said she didn’t mind coming to ours. So I didn’t argue!</p>