+1 My Blair magnet senior charges $50 an hour and has a waitlist. |
lol. You’re funny! |
AI said $15-25 for general tutoring, $20-30 for math or science.
Considering it’s her first paid gig, I’d start at $20. https://www.quora.com/How-much-should-a-17-year-old-charge-to-tutor-primary-school-aged-students-in-various-subjectshttps://www.quora.com/How-much-should-a-17-year-old-charge-to-tutor-primary-school-aged-students-in-various-subjects |
I’m saying the pool of potential babysitters is much smaller than the pool of available tutors. You strain yourself to find reasons on why she should be paid more. That’s not how economics works. How much better is she than the free Khan Academy or Organic Chemistry Tutor? Go ahead and ask for $50 an hour and let us k ow how it goes. |
And don’t forget, they can get a FREE tutor pretty easily without experience either as a volunteer, through those above here online or through the online services the schools offer (varsity tutors or whatever will be used this year). Come back and let us know what happens. I really want to know because I have two teens always looking for money too. |
I’m 19:05 and just thought of this. We are being hard on you but what I absolutely would pay for is if your kid was fluent in a language and to just speak with mine to help them when they were in levels 1-3. I would pay up to $30 per hour for a HS kid to do this.
It could even be casual conversation. Mine were pretty good but always wanted to get better and that is something that would happen with talking with someone fluent. Not watching videos or studying a book. |
What is a MOPr? |
Not buying that argument at all. Night time is completely free time for teenagers. Babysitting is extremely easy money. Sitting in someone’s house doing your homework and eating their food and racking in the dough. Yes please. Not comparable in effort at all for tutoring. |
That’s awesome. Another Blair magnet parent here (with a younger kid). What experience did your kid have when he/she started charging that much and what subjects does he/she teach? |
There’s an app for that called italki, you can set the range for pricing, $10-20 an hour is common. |
The person you are replying to is not the OP - which is me and I’ve said repeatedly that $20 is a reasonable starting point. However, I absolutely disagree with your bizarre premise. No the potential pool of babysitters is not much smaller than potential tutors. I’m not sure how you can make such a ludicrous claim. Just about anyone can babysit, not true for tutoring. |
Again, you are not speaking to OP and unclear if PP even has a kid seeking to tutor. |
Have you used babysitters before? You seem clueless. You don’t hire anyone from the street to babysit, it has to be someone you know personally or someone that a trusted friend recommends you because they’ll be in your house with your children. That’s what limits the pool of babysitters, not their ability to babysit. If you’re open to online tutoring the pool of tutors is far larger. |
Yes, I have hired babysitters (and also babysat myself when I was a teen). And hired pet sitters and all manner of other individuals who have interacted with my children, pets or in my home. Like most people, I find your logic completely flawed and absolutely disagree with you. The pool of babysitters is much, much larger than that of potential tutors. I’d also look for a recommendation for a tutor btw (as with a babysitter, pet sitter, plumber or almost any provider), I wouldn’t just go with someone online overseas for $18 an hour like you. (And this post isn’t about online tutoring anyway but in person). There’s no need for you to reply because you just keep saying the same thing and your logic doesn’t magically start to make sense the more times you say it. |
These seem very low when my 15 yo makes 20/hour for babysitting. We paid a HS senior $30/hour to tutor our sophomore in chemistry and algebra. Thats less than half what you’d pay a professional! |