what should i charge per week (min 30 hours per week) as a private tutor homeschooling a 10 year old?

Answer 1

A minimum of 30 hours a week for a ten year old.
Just homeschooling, not being a nanny and taking care of the house, or running errands or taking the child to soccer practice or whatever too?
That is A LOT of time!!!
So, I'm assuming these parents have never homeschooled this child, and really have not looked in to what is involved in homeschooling, OR, you live in a state where there is a time per day requirement on instructional time.
Either way, you should take it easy on them. Private tutors in my area charge between $40-50 per hour. Sometimes, you can find teaching students that will do it for half that or less.
But you would be weekly pay, and honestly, your fee shouldn't be more than $200/week, with the parents footing the bill for all materials, field trips, food, things like that. You could also charge a start up fee to order materials, set up lesson plans, schedules and things like that.
It may sound low to you, but I'm just thinking once the planning is set, how much instructional time and grading time you will be putting in during those six hours a day (minimum)

Edit to add: you do NOT need to be a certified teacher to be a tutor. That is just more false information being spread in the homeschool forum by people that really have not taken two seconds to research information before typing.

Answer 2

Somewhere between what childcare would cost for those 30 hours a week and what private schools charge where you live.

I agree that credentials will make a difference, too. But I don't think you can charge a standard tutoring fee, the reason being that tutoring charges are as high as they are to make up for the fact that most people can not have 30 hours a week with a single student and are constantly having to fill spaces and still make enough money when there are empty spaces. Charging even $20/hour would mean charging $600 per week, roughly $2400/month and since most schools seem to be close to 10 months a year now, that'd be $24000 a year. Only someone really well off would even consider that.

Answer 3

One-on-one teaching should NOT take 30 hours per week, in fact, it would probably take less than 15 hours a week. That includes covering every single subject in great detail, much more than a public school would.

In fact, it's more than the public school does, since they are in school for 35 hours a week, and spend five hours in lunch and recess, not to mention all the lost minutes spent in the hallways, library, music class, regular class goofing off while the teacher explains things for the third time to yet another group of students.

As a parent, I wouldn't have more than 10 hours of outside teaching, and I wouldn't pay more than $100 to $200 for a REALLY good teacher to accelerate a LOT. I'm talking college prep for that. More likely I'd hire a college kid who needs some pocket money for $5 to $10 an hour. And legally, you wouldn't be 'homeschooling', the parents are homeschooling and you are providing tutoring.

Answer 4

As someone else mentioned, your credentials are a big factor in what you should charge. They will also play a big factor in if you get the work or not. Look around at other tutoring agencies. You may even considering working for one such as ClubZ (I believe that is the name), I read once they pay between 17-25/hour depending on your experience and qualifications.

Answer 5

If you're not a licensed teacher you can't charge to tutor. You can do it for free, but with the way the laws are if you're going to provide a service such as tutoring you should have a credentials as a school teacher or some educational professional to charge for services like tutoring.

Answer 6

It depends on what qualifications you have? Are you a certified teacher? If not, do you have a college degree? All these are factors in determining your value.

Answer 7

$340-$380