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Summary: Tutoring rates usually decrease with longer sessions and can be adjusted if a student commits to a certain amount of tutoring a week or a month. Determine market value for tutoring services with tips from a professional tutor in this free video on education.
"How much to charge for tutoring. How much to charge for tutoring depends on mostly the length of time, as far as I know. That is the one thing that determines my differences in my rate which get more like wholesale prices the more time that you spend tutoring. So this is the difference between a one-hour tutoring job for thirty dollars as opposed to a three-hour job for seventy dollars. Another method is to charge maybe a monthly salary or a weekly salary for x-amount of hours worth of tutoring minimum, something like that, a minimum amount of hours, and then maybe beyond a certain amount of hours, you can start charging hourly again. Or just a million dollars a month for as much tutoring as your require, whatever. The market value of the tutoring is usually what dictates my rates, me personally. I, according to what I hear other people charging for tutoring, companies for example, I can take half of that usually because I am doing my own tutoring if I am doing my private tutoring, and that easily cuts out a huge cost for the student and is at the same time a better deal for me than what the companies give to me. So, the market value is another determination of that. Those are a few ways of determining how much a private tutor should charge."
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