How much would you pay a high school junior to tutor your kid?

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Anonymous wrote:$30/40/hour

Sounds like OP is sock puppeting to convince herself $35 is a reasonable price. Try it, but it will be hard. Let us know how it worked.

Don’t compare to babysitting, compare with jobs with more experience and skill like waitress, bike mechanic, beauty salon, landscaping workers charge about $15-20 an hour. Some of them require school, licensing and apprenticeship.

Your kid only taught a few kids as a volunteer. Do it for the experience, not for the money.

I was a new poster and I think tutors- teens or no, should earn a heck of a lot more than a babysitter! And those rates are so high nowadays. $30 is perfectly acceptable. $40 for physics or other high level math and if the kid is personable and actually a good teacher!

It doesn’t matter how much you think tutors should earn, tell us how much you paid for the ones you hired and what were their qualifications. When people do the comparison with babysitters they don’t realize that typical babysitting hours are late in the evening, and it’s a one time thing. That’s why it costs more per hour, just imagine making a plumber emergency call at 8 pm.

OPs kid wants to teach Algebra, not Physics or Calculus. At the low end of tutoring, parents, relatives and volunteer kids can teach for free. Khan Academy and YouTube videos are also free, so she’d have to offer something that’s competitive with those alternatives.

Typical babysitting for teens late at night involves watching TV and hanging out in someone else’s house. I loved doing it as a teen as I got peace and quiet from my siblings and a choice of food to eat. And I always got paid for at least 3 hours often much more. By contrast, tutoring is for an hour max, much more labor intensive and higher stakes. It’s worth MUCH more than babysitting. That said I doubt almost anyone would pay as much as $40 or 50 for a high schooler. But they certainly should get significantly more than a babysitter.

Again, babysitting happens at night, from a very limited pool of trusted and close circle acquaintances hence the premium rate.

Have you ever hired a tutor for your kid in Algebra or sent them to Khans Academy to figure it out on their own?

As other posters have said, it’s better to do it for volunteer hours for college applications.

Are you saying that people hire babysitters from a trusted and close circle of acquaintances, but randomly select tutors off the street? It's safe to assume that someone hiring OP's child to tutor would want to look at academic performance, perhaps get a reference from OP's child's teacher, and watch a trial session or two.

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.

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.

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.

That’s nuts. So a tutor that comes to your house to teach your kid could be a stranger from the street but you’d carefully vet an unskilled babysitter? Why not the same care when selecting a tutor? There are a lot less good tutors than good babysitters.

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Same I would pay any other tutor. You are paying them based on the job, not their age.

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Anonymous wrote:$30/40/hour

Sounds like OP is sock puppeting to convince herself $35 is a reasonable price. Try it, but it will be hard. Let us know how it worked.

Don’t compare to babysitting, compare with jobs with more experience and skill like waitress, bike mechanic, beauty salon, landscaping workers charge about $15-20 an hour. Some of them require school, licensing and apprenticeship.

Your kid only taught a few kids as a volunteer. Do it for the experience, not for the money.

I was a new poster and I think tutors- teens or no, should earn a heck of a lot more than a babysitter! And those rates are so high nowadays. $30 is perfectly acceptable. $40 for physics or other high level math and if the kid is personable and actually a good teacher!

It doesn’t matter how much you think tutors should earn, tell us how much you paid for the ones you hired and what were their qualifications. When people do the comparison with babysitters they don’t realize that typical babysitting hours are late in the evening, and it’s a one time thing. That’s why it costs more per hour, just imagine making a plumber emergency call at 8 pm.

OPs kid wants to teach Algebra, not Physics or Calculus. At the low end of tutoring, parents, relatives and volunteer kids can teach for free. Khan Academy and YouTube videos are also free, so she’d have to offer something that’s competitive with those alternatives.

Typical babysitting for teens late at night involves watching TV and hanging out in someone else’s house. I loved doing it as a teen as I got peace and quiet from my siblings and a choice of food to eat. And I always got paid for at least 3 hours often much more. By contrast, tutoring is for an hour max, much more labor intensive and higher stakes. It’s worth MUCH more than babysitting. That said I doubt almost anyone would pay as much as $40 or 50 for a high schooler. But they certainly should get significantly more than a babysitter.

Again, babysitting happens at night, from a very limited pool of trusted and close circle acquaintances hence the premium rate.

Have you ever hired a tutor for your kid in Algebra or sent them to Khans Academy to figure it out on their own?

As other posters have said, it’s better to do it for volunteer hours for college applications.

Are you saying that people hire babysitters from a trusted and close circle of acquaintances, but randomly select tutors off the street? It's safe to assume that someone hiring OP's child to tutor would want to look at academic performance, perhaps get a reference from OP's child's teacher, and watch a trial session or two.

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.

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.

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.

That’s nuts. So a tutor that comes to your house to teach your kid could be a stranger from the street but you’d carefully vet an unskilled babysitter? Why not the same care when selecting a tutor? There are a lot less good tutors than good babysitters.

It’s not the same care because the tutor is not going to be alone in your home with your kids at night.

I had about three different kids pet sit in the past years. Far more options for tutoring, teachers at school, other students, local businesses. Add to that Mathnasium, Kumon, AOPS, RSM, varsity tutors, Chegg etc who offer both on line, group and individual lessons. Add to that the free resources like parents, relatives, Khan Academy, YouTube, and ChatGPT.

How does a teenager tutor differentiate themselves among all these options? As I said 20 seems reasonable.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:$30/40/hour

Sounds like OP is sock puppeting to convince herself $35 is a reasonable price. Try it, but it will be hard. Let us know how it worked.

Don’t compare to babysitting, compare with jobs with more experience and skill like waitress, bike mechanic, beauty salon, landscaping workers charge about $15-20 an hour. Some of them require school, licensing and apprenticeship.

Your kid only taught a few kids as a volunteer. Do it for the experience, not for the money.

I was a new poster and I think tutors- teens or no, should earn a heck of a lot more than a babysitter! And those rates are so high nowadays. $30 is perfectly acceptable. $40 for physics or other high level math and if the kid is personable and actually a good teacher!

It doesn’t matter how much you think tutors should earn, tell us how much you paid for the ones you hired and what were their qualifications. When people do the comparison with babysitters they don’t realize that typical babysitting hours are late in the evening, and it’s a one time thing. That’s why it costs more per hour, just imagine making a plumber emergency call at 8 pm.

OPs kid wants to teach Algebra, not Physics or Calculus. At the low end of tutoring, parents, relatives and volunteer kids can teach for free. Khan Academy and YouTube videos are also free, so she’d have to offer something that’s competitive with those alternatives.

Typical babysitting for teens late at night involves watching TV and hanging out in someone else’s house. I loved doing it as a teen as I got peace and quiet from my siblings and a choice of food to eat. And I always got paid for at least 3 hours often much more. By contrast, tutoring is for an hour max, much more labor intensive and higher stakes. It’s worth MUCH more than babysitting. That said I doubt almost anyone would pay as much as $40 or 50 for a high schooler. But they certainly should get significantly more than a babysitter.

Again, babysitting happens at night, from a very limited pool of trusted and close circle acquaintances hence the premium rate.

Have you ever hired a tutor for your kid in Algebra or sent them to Khans Academy to figure it out on their own?

As other posters have said, it’s better to do it for volunteer hours for college applications.

Are you saying that people hire babysitters from a trusted and close circle of acquaintances, but randomly select tutors off the street? It's safe to assume that someone hiring OP's child to tutor would want to look at academic performance, perhaps get a reference from OP's child's teacher, and watch a trial session or two.

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.

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.

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.

That’s nuts. So a tutor that comes to your house to teach your kid could be a stranger from the street but you’d carefully vet an unskilled babysitter? Why not the same care when selecting a tutor? There are a lot less good tutors than good babysitters.

It’s not the same care because the tutor is not going to be alone in your home with your kids at night.

I had about three different kids pet sit in the past years. Far more options for tutoring, teachers at school, other students, local businesses. Add to that Mathnasium, Kumon, AOPS, RSM, varsity tutors, Chegg etc who offer both on line, group and individual lessons. Add to that the free resources like parents, relatives, Khan Academy, YouTube, and ChatGPT.

How does a teenager tutor differentiate themselves among all these options? As I said 20 seems reasonable.

How much do you pay for babysitting? Any teenager can babysit. I’m also not one of those ridiculous parents that thinks everyone is a predator or that “at night” is only time abuse can happen. Sounds like you are.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:$30/40/hour

Sounds like OP is sock puppeting to convince herself $35 is a reasonable price. Try it, but it will be hard. Let us know how it worked.

Don’t compare to babysitting, compare with jobs with more experience and skill like waitress, bike mechanic, beauty salon, landscaping workers charge about $15-20 an hour. Some of them require school, licensing and apprenticeship.

Your kid only taught a few kids as a volunteer. Do it for the experience, not for the money.

I was a new poster and I think tutors- teens or no, should earn a heck of a lot more than a babysitter! And those rates are so high nowadays. $30 is perfectly acceptable. $40 for physics or other high level math and if the kid is personable and actually a good teacher!

It doesn’t matter how much you think tutors should earn, tell us how much you paid for the ones you hired and what were their qualifications. When people do the comparison with babysitters they don’t realize that typical babysitting hours are late in the evening, and it’s a one time thing. That’s why it costs more per hour, just imagine making a plumber emergency call at 8 pm.

OPs kid wants to teach Algebra, not Physics or Calculus. At the low end of tutoring, parents, relatives and volunteer kids can teach for free. Khan Academy and YouTube videos are also free, so she’d have to offer something that’s competitive with those alternatives.

Typical babysitting for teens late at night involves watching TV and hanging out in someone else’s house. I loved doing it as a teen as I got peace and quiet from my siblings and a choice of food to eat. And I always got paid for at least 3 hours often much more. By contrast, tutoring is for an hour max, much more labor intensive and higher stakes. It’s worth MUCH more than babysitting. That said I doubt almost anyone would pay as much as $40 or 50 for a high schooler. But they certainly should get significantly more than a babysitter.

Again, babysitting happens at night, from a very limited pool of trusted and close circle acquaintances hence the premium rate.

Have you ever hired a tutor for your kid in Algebra or sent them to Khans Academy to figure it out on their own?

As other posters have said, it’s better to do it for volunteer hours for college applications.

Are you saying that people hire babysitters from a trusted and close circle of acquaintances, but randomly select tutors off the street? It's safe to assume that someone hiring OP's child to tutor would want to look at academic performance, perhaps get a reference from OP's child's teacher, and watch a trial session or two.

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.

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.

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.

That’s nuts. So a tutor that comes to your house to teach your kid could be a stranger from the street but you’d carefully vet an unskilled babysitter? Why not the same care when selecting a tutor? There are a lot less good tutors than good babysitters.

It’s not the same care because the tutor is not going to be alone in your home with your kids at night.

I had about three different kids pet sit in the past years. Far more options for tutoring, teachers at school, other students, local businesses. Add to that Mathnasium, Kumon, AOPS, RSM, varsity tutors, Chegg etc who offer both on line, group and individual lessons. Add to that the free resources like parents, relatives, Khan Academy, YouTube, and ChatGPT.

How does a teenager tutor differentiate themselves among all these options? As I said 20 seems reasonable.

How much do you pay for babysitting? Any teenager can babysit. I’m also not one of those ridiculous parents that thinks everyone is a predator or that “at night” is only time abuse can happen. Sounds like you are.

Are you going to shame me about who I let in my own house now? lol

For pet sitters I paid $20 to feed my cat daily. Believe it or not it’s a good deal and it’s actually hard to find kids in the summer when everyone is on vacation and I’m looking for a trustworthy kid.

I would not hire a teenager as a tutor because they don’t have the experience of teaching a full curriculum, and I actually doubt they have a syllabus, lesson plans etc. I guess they could be good at helping with homework and random stuff but that’s not what I’m looking for.

I paid for AOPS tutoring in Algebra which is about $30 per 1.5 hour lesson, roughly $20/ hour. It’s a group lesson, but it’s a well polished product, the curriculum is amazing, the instructor has a PhD in math, there’s a textbook, instructional videos, online database for problems, homework, grading, incredibly useful teacher feedback on homework etc. I don’t think a teen tutor can match that.

I’d suggest tutoring lower grades, elementary and middle school when the students need more hand holding.

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It’s better to do it as a volunteer for kids that are less fortunate in life than chase a few hundred dollars. She has to do some service hours anyways, what is she doing for that? Parents with means will hire a teacher if their kid is struggling and there’s too much competition from all other tutoring options.

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Anonymous wrote:$30/40/hour

Sounds like OP is sock puppeting to convince herself $35 is a reasonable price. Try it, but it will be hard. Let us know how it worked.

Don’t compare to babysitting, compare with jobs with more experience and skill like waitress, bike mechanic, beauty salon, landscaping workers charge about $15-20 an hour. Some of them require school, licensing and apprenticeship.

Your kid only taught a few kids as a volunteer. Do it for the experience, not for the money.

I was a new poster and I think tutors- teens or no, should earn a heck of a lot more than a babysitter! And those rates are so high nowadays. $30 is perfectly acceptable. $40 for physics or other high level math and if the kid is personable and actually a good teacher!

It doesn’t matter how much you think tutors should earn, tell us how much you paid for the ones you hired and what were their qualifications. When people do the comparison with babysitters they don’t realize that typical babysitting hours are late in the evening, and it’s a one time thing. That’s why it costs more per hour, just imagine making a plumber emergency call at 8 pm.

OPs kid wants to teach Algebra, not Physics or Calculus. At the low end of tutoring, parents, relatives and volunteer kids can teach for free. Khan Academy and YouTube videos are also free, so she’d have to offer something that’s competitive with those alternatives.

Typical babysitting for teens late at night involves watching TV and hanging out in someone else’s house. I loved doing it as a teen as I got peace and quiet from my siblings and a choice of food to eat. And I always got paid for at least 3 hours often much more. By contrast, tutoring is for an hour max, much more labor intensive and higher stakes. It’s worth MUCH more than babysitting. That said I doubt almost anyone would pay as much as $40 or 50 for a high schooler. But they certainly should get significantly more than a babysitter.

Again, babysitting happens at night, from a very limited pool of trusted and close circle acquaintances hence the premium rate.

Have you ever hired a tutor for your kid in Algebra or sent them to Khans Academy to figure it out on their own?

As other posters have said, it’s better to do it for volunteer hours for college applications.

Are you saying that people hire babysitters from a trusted and close circle of acquaintances, but randomly select tutors off the street? It's safe to assume that someone hiring OP's child to tutor would want to look at academic performance, perhaps get a reference from OP's child's teacher, and watch a trial session or two.

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.

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.

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.

That’s nuts. So a tutor that comes to your house to teach your kid could be a stranger from the street but you’d carefully vet an unskilled babysitter? Why not the same care when selecting a tutor? There are a lot less good tutors than good babysitters.

It’s not the same care because the tutor is not going to be alone in your home with your kids at night.

I had about three different kids pet sit in the past years. Far more options for tutoring, teachers at school, other students, local businesses. Add to that Mathnasium, Kumon, AOPS, RSM, varsity tutors, Chegg etc who offer both on line, group and individual lessons. Add to that the free resources like parents, relatives, Khan Academy, YouTube, and ChatGPT.

How does a teenager tutor differentiate themselves among all these options? As I said 20 seems reasonable.

How much do you pay for babysitting? Any teenager can babysit. I’m also not one of those ridiculous parents that thinks everyone is a predator or that “at night” is only time abuse can happen. Sounds like you are.

Are you going to shame me about who I let in my own house now? lol

For pet sitters I paid $20 to feed my cat daily. Believe it or not it’s a good deal and it’s actually hard to find kids in the summer when everyone is on vacation and I’m looking for a trustworthy kid.

I would not hire a teenager as a tutor because they don’t have the experience of teaching a full curriculum, and I actually doubt they have a syllabus, lesson plans etc. I guess they could be good at helping with homework and random stuff but that’s not what I’m looking for.

I paid for AOPS tutoring in Algebra which is about $30 per 1.5 hour lesson, roughly $20/ hour. It’s a group lesson, but it’s a well polished product, the curriculum is amazing, the instructor has a PhD in math, there’s a textbook, instructional videos, online database for problems, homework, grading, incredibly useful teacher feedback on homework etc. I don’t think a teen tutor can match that.

I’d suggest tutoring lower grades, elementary and middle school when the students need more hand holding.

Algebra is middle school

[Anonymous]

My kid tutored medical school board exam (Step 2) to medical school students and got paid $40/hour. Should've asked for more.

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Anonymous wrote:$30 per hour cash

I would pay this IF:
She reads up on peer tutoring and prepares.
She is extremely prompt and reliable. Text confirmation on day of appointment, etc.
She has the maturity to guide the student, so that the student does the work with their own hand. She shouldn’t just hold the pencil and show them. The learning needs to be done and internalized by the student.
She stays on task and demonstrates professionalism.

As a parent, I would encourage a young adult to bring their A game, know their worth, and begin to set their professional standards. If she plays her cards right, there is some learning for her as well in this process.

And never accept a lowball offer. Neither party will be happy.

What’s their worth as a tutor? This is hard to gauge now, in my view $20 is a reasonable price. Someone with more experience knows the common pitfalls, connections with other parts of mathematics, and can gauge if the student is really understanding the material etc.

A good tutor with a degree in Math for something like Calculus is about $80-100 an hour. I know it’s not 5 times better than a good student, but I’d rather pay the hundred and save me and my kid time.

For algebra start with $20 and if she has more kids than she can handle, increase the rate.

Yeah, I would pay 15-20 now with potential for a raise of they were a really good tutor. Just being good at math doesn't make someone a good teacher. In fact, some of the best natural math people are the worst teachers because they don't understand the pitfalls or points of potential confusion.

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Anonymous wrote:I would pay $50 an hour. $15 an hour is insulting. Babysitters make over $20 an hour.

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My Blair magnet senior charges $50 an hour and has a waitlist.

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?

DC started at $30/hour a few years ago and tutors math generally including calculus, as well as chemistry, organic chemistry, physics, and stats. Most of the kids DC tutors are in middle and early high school.

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Anonymous wrote:I would pay $50 an hour. $15 an hour is insulting. Babysitters make over $20 an hour.

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My Blair magnet senior charges $50 an hour and has a waitlist.

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?

DC started at $30/hour a few years ago and tutors math generally including calculus, as well as chemistry, organic chemistry, physics, and stats. Most of the kids DC tutors are in middle and early high school.

Thanks - I’m sure he’s very skilled at it! This is great info. Thanks.

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My sophomore tutored math to elementary school students this past school year and was paid $20-$40/ hr.

[Anonymous]

I sort of think it depends. Some high schoolers are great tutors so they can charge more because people learn about them word of mouth.

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Nothing. If my child is having problems with reading or math then I’m finding a professional.

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Yeah - my kid went to the Blair magnet and absolutely could charge $30/hour for tutoring in higher level math/science courses. My other kids gave language & piano lessons for even more than that per hour. I think it's totally reasonable for the OP to ask for $20/hour - especially with all that experience teaching! It's weird how angry some people get on her about hourly rates. Look, if you don't want to pay that, move along. But there are plenty of families willing to .. like the other Blair parent said!