<p>*i believe it happens all the time… i mean a mom will want the safest environment for the baby not the cheapest available, right? *</p>
<p>Uh…many moms that are bearing babies are barely earning $25 an hour, much less bringing home $25 an hour. Women with babies often quit their jobs if babysitting takes too much of their take home pay.</p>
<p>I will say that making $25 an hour for tutoring is not unusual. My fiance, who was a math major and an excellent tutor, charged $20 an hour for elementary school math and $25 for high school math. We lived in a middle-income area and the parents were fine with it - in fact, he wasn’t going to charge anything, but the first mom who requested his services insisted that he paid and she was the one who suggested the rates. His phone was ringing off the hook to tutor kids. And this was in metropolitan Atlanta; the cost of living is not so high there.</p>
<p>But OP shouldn’t expect that much as an international student. Honestly like someone said two posts ago I’ve read this entire thread and I’m more confused than when I went in. The only thing I can say is that I don’t think OP’s parents are being upfront about how much they make. I highly doubt her father was making only $17,000 a year with assets valued at $2,000,000, and just got a raise to $40K when they are paying their employees more than that. Also, if her parents’ combined income was just $22K a year before now how on Earth could she afford to live in Canada with a $12K per year tuition for school plus living expenses?</p>
<p>Like someone else said, either OP is very confused or things are very fishy. In any case, he/she can’t expect schools to give him/her substantial aid.</p>
<p>You don’t need to pay $ 25 an hour to get a safe and enriching environment for children.
Tutors can cost that much, but when I paid that for tutors, it was for certified teachers- and it was once a week.</p>
<p>Wow, when I tutored, I charged about $20 for an entire 4-5 hour session. I feel cheated now 
lol. </p>
<p>Who pays a babysitter $20 an hour? What babysitter CHARGES $20 an hour?</p>
<p>I get $10.50/hr working through my college, but when I do private tutoring (generally for students I have tutored on campus) I ask $20/hr and have never had anyone hesitate. So yeah, you cheated yourself.</p>
<p>I just don’t think it’s right for someone to ask that much. Just doesn’t seem right when I’m not a certified teacher, but rather a fellow student. I don’t have a lot of money and 90% of college students are in my boat, so I’m not going to charge people an arm and a leg. That’s just my view on this though.</p>
<p>Really? When a student asks me to tutor them privately what I have to consider is that every hour I spend with them is an hour that I can’t study, do homework, or even just relax. It’s not so much about how valuable my time is to them, but how valuable my time is to me. I make enough as a tutor, and TA, that I don’t really need the extra hours, and since I already work ~30 hours a week at my regular jobs, adding the extra hours isn’t always easy. I can’t imagine giving up that time for any less. $20 for 4 -5 hours? That’s not even minimum wage.</p>
<p>I may not be a certified teacher but I am a certified tutor (part of the hiring process at my college). I also go through at least 6 hours of supplementary training every semester. So I’m definitely not just another student.</p>
<p>I make $20-$30 an hour tutoring and $10 an hour babysitting for pre-teens (I don’t do kids or babies). So, I usually make $50-$75 per week tutoring and then once a month or so I make $60 babysitting.</p>
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<p>Agreed. I tutor and babysit mostly for my neighbor and her 12ish year old daughter. My neighbor wanted me specifically and knew that she would have to pull me away from 25 hours of work and 40 some hours of school every week, not to mention ECs. So, we do $30 an hour every time we start a new subject (we’re doing math, science, and study / note-taking / organization skills) and $20 an hour for each session. I babysit for only $10 an hour, but that’s because the girl and her friends are quite capable of watching themselves, so I just do homework while I’m there.</p>
<p>Tutoring doesn’t seem like a field where you charge whatever the market will bear- especially when you are’nt certified , you can’t / don’t guarantee results and you don’t have a tangible product to be evaluated.</p>
<p>I agree that people should be paid for their time, but( as a student) why would you expect more from tutoring than other on campus jobs?</p>
<p>Because only a limited number of students can afford to repeatedly pay out $20-30/week for tuturing, many universities are now providing free tutoring for students. That severely cuts down the opportunities for “free lancers” at various schools.</p>
<p>“Because only a limited number of students can afford to repeatedly pay out $20-30/week for tuturing, many universities are now providing free tutoring for students. That severely cuts down the opportunities for “free lancers” at various schools”</p>
<p>a perfect case to study in microeconomics… it really wouldn’t cut down my chance of getting paid as high as $25/hr. well i am more trustworthy in terms of motives, not to mention that i am experienced…</p>
<p>“especially when you are’nt certified , you can’t / don’t guarantee results and you don’t have a tangible product to be evaluated.”
-this is true. if i overprice my tutorials, say asking for $50/hr, sure i may get luck somewhere a couple times, but i doubt it will last. well a certification is simply one proof of eligibility. a certificated piano teacher can charge a lot, those with experience and prior achievement can charge more. those who overprice work less, while those who underprice get so much work that they want to raise their rate.</p>
<p>lets not talk about pricing stratagies of babysitters and tutors, shall we?</p>
<p>"( as a student) why would you expect more from tutoring than other on campus jobs? "
-being a TA looks like fun, but beaker washing is just not the case, no matter how much im paid to do it. anything productive will be good, and tutoring is definitely more meaningful. well at least for me(which is why i am good?) though sometimes when im stressed i just feel i should have charged a lot more lol
many rates are quite relative, say helping out in a coffee shop. when its not busy, the helper can just relax, read, chat, or study. if the job i get is always that pleasant, i would be okay getting only $10/hr once in a while. however, boring jobs are nothing better than labour work, so why not leave them to poor refugees who can hardly support themselves in the country? just saying…</p>
<p>"I just don’t think it’s right for someone to ask that much. "
-good point, which is why im not asking for $50/hr, the rate for either a sub teacher in this school board, a tutor at this local test prep centre, or a certificated piano teacher. </p>
<p>Look, im not a cunning businessman who abuses pricing to get myself marketed. </p>
<p>in the beginning, i too started off at $18/hr while offering extra hours to the students as volunteering hours, just to prove that i deserved that rate.
tutoring is quite different from teaching, so a teaching certificate isnt that important. experience and personal achievement can also demonstrate how learnt a tutor is.
plus, actual teachers are way too old to communicate with kids. sometimes i feel i’m just invited to show the kids what a role model should look like… a bit weird to think about it as parents’ motivation.</p>
<p>all right now i feel that im writing my EC essay…</p>
<p>I thought this post had gone cold and when I noticed it again, curiosity got better of me. I should stay off this post, as this is getting too confusing for me also (like others have expressed) and especially when OP adds another twist, every time he posts. Let me put it bluntly, a foreign undergraduate student has limited opportunities to earn money through work outside of campus. Campus jobs are usually low wage and you cannot work more than 20 hours a week. It does not matter how much you charge for tutoring, if it is outside the college or University, you need a work permit and generally they will not be forthcoming and even if they are, they will be limited to 20 hours a week during the school year. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will ask a lot of questions if student wants to tutor someone at $25/hour and ask the parent who wants to pay that type fee why they are not able to get a US citizen to do that for them. The alternative is to work for cash, which is illegal, and I do not believe anybody on this board will advocate or support that. I don’t.</p>
<p>Also please note, that most colleges are going to cost between $30,000 to $55,000 a year (depending on school and assuming OOS), and a full time student with a good course load is not going to be able to make that type of money and still keep grades up. To keep your student visa you need to be enrolled full time. </p>
<p>OP is refusing to divulge any details about how good his scores are and what type of colleges he is applying for (assuming it is a he). His statements on net worth do not appear to add up (as expressed by others also) nor do his other statements. I might consider paying $25/hr for a highly qualified tutor, not for a high school student still in school. If the OP’s credentials are so strong that people are willing to pay that rate for a HS student, then he should be able to obtain scholarships from schools. There are some schools that offer International students aid, but the student has to be very meritorious. I do not know about Canada, but I would assume they have restrictions on students working full time, especially HS students. Unless OP is not a HS student, in which case I give up.</p>
<p>So either the OP seeks merit aid (based on his outstanding credentials), or gets his parents to pay for it or gets a loan from his home country. If he wants to game the system or participate in illegal activities (like working in the US without authorization), then I think he should take his questions to a different forum.</p>
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<p>The substitutes in your school district get paid $50 per HOUR? Are you sure? That would be over $300 a day. I’ve been teaching a LONG time and even in the wealthiest districts I’ve heard of, that kind of substitute pay is unheard of. Are you sure it isn’t $50 a DAY?</p>
<p>Are you sure it isn’t $50 a DAY?</p>
<p>Teachers who are certified- get $70 to $150 a day, as a certified substitute depending on area, teachers who *aren’t * certified get much less.</p>
<p>If they were being paid $50 an hour, and employed for the full school year as many substitutes are, they would be making over $80,000 a year- more than many full time regular teachers.</p>
<p>Let’s hope Messenia isn’t tutoring math!
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