How Much Does a Private Tutor Cost?

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Summary: Private tutoring costs vary depending on whether the tutor works as an individual, works for a tutoring company or is coordinated through a Web-based group. Learn about tutor pricing, from school-based tutors to private tutors, from a professional tutor in this free video on education.

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Ben Sagot is a professional, highly-sought-after, private tutor living and working in the San Fernando Valley. He has a degree in biochemistry from Cal State University Northridge....read more

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"How much does private tutoring cost? Private tutoring costs....well, it depends, the cost depends on a lot of things. It could be...first and foremost the market value of tutoring. How much are other tutors charging, or, you know, tutoring companies. A lot of times, if you are working at a...at a specific place, that offers tutoring services like the high school or the college, or the whatever, the library. Often...most often I find those to be the cheapest, where as a tutor you get paid, maybe, ten dollars an hour to fifteen dollars an hour. And, I guess, if you go to that college you might get some college credits or something like that for..for tutoring. As opposed to, let's see, as opposed to private tutoring, where you will go into a student's house, and that usually is, for example, thewiseant.com, method, where you set your own rate, and you discuss it with them. Everyone's happy about what's going on. The last private...the last method of private tutoring would be through a company where you go into someone's house, and then the company sets the rate. And the company does all the discussing with the student, or the student's parents, rather, the decision maker, and then the...you just get paid by the company. You don't see any transfer of money between the parents and the tutor. That is how much private tutoring should cost on the...with a few different examples and some details."

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