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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]$30/40/hour[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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!  [/quote]

It doesn’t matter how much you think tutors [b]should[/b] 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.[/quote]

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