Tutoring

Here in San Diego, I paid $50/hour for a reading tutor. She was a PG mostly tutor and she also sent home tapes of general interest articles. My daughter was to listen to the tapes while reading along and then answer a few questions.

In the Washington, D.C., area, I’ve paid between $50 and $60 for a credentialed special ed tutor. Some charge even more than that.

Andrea

In CT I was offered tutoring from a retired special ed teacher certified in OG for $35/hour (45 minutes) while the same tutor working through a private reading clinic would have cost me $75.

Ewa

I am paying $40 an hour for the first hour, and $35 for second (in same week) for a certified reading specialist. She does not have special education certification. She is working on reading comprehension and logic with my son.

We paid $50 an hour for the first hour, and $40 for the second hour for a slt who was Lindamood trained last summer.

They both have tutored at my house.

Beth

I pay $45/hour in the Denver metropolitan area for a tutor who is a former middle school English teacher. She specializes in tutoring kids with writing/reading learning disabilities.

I paid $50 for 11/2 hrs in suburban Mass. It was at the tutor’s house.

I’m charging $30 per hour which is no way nearly enough, but I’m trying to build up a reputation and a clientele.

DC—PG certified tutor, I think she has a special ed certification—$60/hour. Best part is that includes her coming to my house.

The learning Center I used to work at charged about $47.50 an hour 2 years ago…… As a speech therapist I get $45 an hour working with an audiologist who charges the clients $55.00 an hour…Works out fine for me…But after I get my Masters in Speech I can get more per hour..I know LMB charged $70.00 an hour in Newport Beach a few years ago……

I know the learning center to which you refer. Did she provide 1:1 instruction by a credentialed specialist for that fee? Or, did she provide small group or 1:1 by a trained paraprofessional?

1:1 tutoring with trained college students… and the kicker is they made a 1/5 to a 1/6th of the fees she was charging… depending on their expereince…and how long they had been there…

If you are in SF, then check out the UC Berkely Learning Extension on Laguna Street. $50.00 per hour — my son gets one on one help with writing.
Keep in mind they are not there to make A students .. they work with kids who need special attention in certain areas.

If you are in SF, then check out the UC Berkely Learning Extension on Laguna Street. $50.00 per hour — my son gets one on one help with writing.
Keep in mind they are not there to make A students .. they work with kids who need special attention in certain areas.

That would not be surprising. She has plenty of overhead to maintain. A clinic can only operate certain hours of the day, so I can understand this. I would rather pay a trained teacher (like me!) the same money to do the work herself.

One thing I have found is parents will try to get around the clinic rates and contact me personally to get a “bargain rate”

A parent told the audiologist I work with that she just wanted to talk to me about her son’s CAPD/ADD, and reading problems. But the real reason she called me at home was to bypass the audiologist and cut a “deal” for tutoring, as in $25 an hour…I laughed…I told her the audiologist pays me what I am worth ….The parent didn’t like it…and that was the last time the audiologist gave out my home number… :-P

In our public school system, many teachers tutor in the summer and after school, however, they do not refer their own students for tutoring and many do not tutor students from their particular building(but do within the larger system). It may depend upon what your contract or union allows.

I’m already charging a very low rate, trying to be affordable to ordinary families and to build up a steady clientele; I get very turned off when new people call and try to argue me down to an even lower rate. These people lose out on good, dedicated teachers. Remind clients that you get what you pay for; sure, they can get someone cheaper, if they want a totally unqualified and undependable college student.

I called someone who had an advertisement up at my dry cleaners because he mentions that he teaches visualization.
Turns out he charges $120 an hour. He also uses college students. I passed.

I also called a clinic that uses LMB that charges something similar. I really don’t want someone who is going to do the same things he is already doing in school and I think that is how most parents feel.

If you can show that you offer something different use words in your ad like “scientifically proven methods of teaching” etc I think you will get more interest and can even charge more.