How to find families willing to pay premium?

[Anonymous]

It’s her cowardice that keeps schools closed and exacerbates inequality

[Anonymous]

Go to a high-end agency. Parents who are willing to pay high fees to the agency are generally willing to pay higher wages.

[Anonymous]

Word of mouth, OP. Or let people know on facebook. You'll have folks lining up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Go to a high-end agency. Parents who are willing to pay high fees to the agency are generally willing to pay higher wages.

Sure, but if you can cut out the agency, the teacher can pocket much more of those higher fees.

It will be harder to find a match, but it’s worth a shot for a bit given the difference in total pay.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Go to a high-end agency. Parents who are willing to pay high fees to the agency are generally willing to pay higher wages.

Sure, but if you can cut out the agency, the teacher can pocket much more of those higher fees.

It will be harder to find a match, but it’s worth a shot for a bit given the difference in total pay.

People using agencies won’t pay less because of agency fees. I have worked for HNW families as a nanny before. The parents would leave cash for me each week to take the kids to lunch, see a movie, etc. I remember buying myself a box of overpriced candy at a movie I took took the kids to. It was easier to use the cash the parents gave me than to pay separately. I told the dad this and handed him the $7 or whatever I owed them. He laughed and waved it away. I thought $7 was a crazy amount to spend on a box of candy but I splurged. I later found out when he retired a few years later, that his retirement package was $200 million.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Go to a high-end agency. Parents who are willing to pay high fees to the agency are generally willing to pay higher wages.

Sure, but if you can cut out the agency, the teacher can pocket much more of those higher fees.

It will be harder to find a match, but it’s worth a shot for a bit given the difference in total pay.

People using agencies won’t pay less because of agency fees. I have worked for HNW families as a nanny before. The parents would leave cash for me each week to take the kids to lunch, see a movie, etc. I remember buying myself a box of overpriced candy at a movie I took took the kids to. It was easier to use the cash the parents gave me than to pay separately. I told the dad this and handed him the $7 or whatever I owed them. He laughed and waved it away. I thought $7 was a crazy amount to spend on a box of candy but I splurged. I later found out when he retired a few years later, that his retirement package was $200 million.

That’s hardly the norm. Even if it were, if a family is willing to pay $100/hour, or more, why wouldn’t the teacher try to find an arrangement where she gets it all, rather than the agency getting 30%?

100% of X is better than 70% of X, whether X is $25, $100, $400, etc.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Go to a high-end agency. Parents who are willing to pay high fees to the agency are generally willing to pay higher wages.

Sure, but if you can cut out the agency, the teacher can pocket much more of those higher fees.

It will be harder to find a match, but it’s worth a shot for a bit given the difference in total pay.

People using agencies won’t pay less because of agency fees. I have worked for HNW families as a nanny before. The parents would leave cash for me each week to take the kids to lunch, see a movie, etc. I remember buying myself a box of overpriced candy at a movie I took took the kids to. It was easier to use the cash the parents gave me than to pay separately. I told the dad this and handed him the $7 or whatever I owed them. He laughed and waved it away. I thought $7 was a crazy amount to spend on a box of candy but I splurged. I later found out when he retired a few years later, that his retirement package was $200 million.

Do you think people who have been in public and are now scrambling for a private option (but haven’t gone fully private, possibly for cost reasons) given the cluster that is public DL have the unlimited funds you describe?

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Anonymous wrote:It’s her cowardice that keeps schools closed and exacerbates inequality

NP. Are you a teacher? If not, what’s your job? Are you expecting her to work in unsafe conditions? Why do you expect that? Should she put her whole family at risk, or do you think she should just quarantine herself from her family long-term until the health threat is over?

[Anonymous]

OP, what exactly do you want to do? Tutor by the hour? Run a pod? Work for one family and handle all the hours of learning?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Go to a high-end agency. Parents who are willing to pay high fees to the agency are generally willing to pay higher wages.

Sure, but if you can cut out the agency, the teacher can pocket much more of those higher fees.

It will be harder to find a match, but it’s worth a shot for a bit given the difference in total pay.

The agency usually charges a one time placement fee (paid by the employer) Its not forever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, just post on NextDoor in the Tenleytown, Chevychase, AUPark, Spring Valley and surrounding neighborhoods. You will have a ton of parents in a bidding war for you. There is also a Facebook group called Washington DC Area Homeschool/Playgroup Pods. Post there and you will also receive a high volume of responses

I posted this and am going to reiterate the Facebook group. Not sure if it was OP or someone else who saw this suggestion but a teacher posted there last night and got lots of interested parents. There are a ton of pods being formed there as well.

[Anonymous]

I tutor in the late afternoons early evenings for young readers. I advertised word of mouth and Facebook. I will teach all day this fall and continue to tutor after. Hope to pay off my mortgage sooner than planned. Fwiw, after taxes, I'll have made about 8k this summer and plan on making an additional 20k this school year on top of my salary.

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Anonymous wrote:I tutor in the late afternoons early evenings for young readers. I advertised word of mouth and Facebook. I will teach all day this fall and continue to tutor after. Hope to pay off my mortgage sooner than planned. Fwiw, after taxes, I'll have made about 8k this summer and plan on making an additional 20k this school year on top of my salary.

How much do you charge? How long is each tutoring session for younger kids?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Go to a high-end agency. Parents who are willing to pay high fees to the agency are generally willing to pay higher wages.

Sure, but if you can cut out the agency, the teacher can pocket much more of those higher fees.

It will be harder to find a match, but it’s worth a shot for a bit given the difference in total pay.

People using agencies won’t pay less because of agency fees. I have worked for HNW families as a nanny before. The parents would leave cash for me each week to take the kids to lunch, see a movie, etc. I remember buying myself a box of overpriced candy at a movie I took took the kids to. It was easier to use the cash the parents gave me than to pay separately. I told the dad this and handed him the $7 or whatever I owed them. He laughed and waved it away. I thought $7 was a crazy amount to spend on a box of candy but I splurged. I later found out when he retired a few years later, that his retirement package was $200 million.

Do you think people who have been in public and are now scrambling for a private option (but haven’t gone fully private, possibly for cost reasons) given the cluster that is public DL have the unlimited funds you describe?

The OP asked where to find families willing to pay. Several posters, including myself, told her to register with an agency because people who use them tend to be very wealthy and don’t worry about agency fees. There are a lot of very wealthy people out there and this is how the OP can connect with them. I answered her question. I have no idea why you are writing about people who can’t afford to use these agencies. They aren’t relevant to this discussion.

[Anonymous]

Pathetic.