I have a friend who struggles with maths and has offered to pay me to be, as it were, a private tutor. Basically, bearing in mind her mum will pay anything (she used to pay her daughter £55 per week for doing essentially sod all), how much is reasonable? I was sent a text at five to five or so, and I need an answer fast!

Please, someone just give me a random number or something! I need help!

I'm losing faith in you all!

Presumably you want them to remain friends. £25 per hour a basic minimum I'd think. It all depends what work is involved. Any marking/preparation etc. I'd look of private tutoring sites and see what the going rate is; Also, if they can pay more and you feel able to ask for it............

Without knowing who you are and what your experience is it is hard to say.

I think it would have to be about £15 because in London the teachers who are qualified with a BEd and do home tuition are paid about £20.

I don't think you can go by what she paid her daughter - what you do for your family is different from what you do for non-family. I think you need to charge a fair rate, ie the rate for the job, not based on what they can afford. As to what a fair rate for the job is, it would depend on how good you are - both at maths and at teaching it. Music teachers in our area charge around £22-25 per hour. That's for qualified people with teaching experience. In the absence of any other more specific advice about maths teaching, that seems as good a yardstick as any to go by


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I *think* I've seen at least one music teacher say that they started out just teaching a friend or friend's child, and didn't charge the market rate because of the friendship. Word spread and they ended up with a few pupils who all expected to pay under the going rate. So if you do charge less than the going rate for this friend, it's as well to be aware of what could happen...

10 pounds and 7 p

would you actually be being a formal private tutor, or just giving basic informal help with homework etc. I think that is probably important in working out how much to charge.

£11.34 an hour.

Sorry to be late to this thread.

When I was your age, and first did maths tutoring, I charged £10/hr.

But that was over twenty years ago

The maths tutoring I do now, I charge £25 per hour, with an Oxford degree and a fair amount of experience.

I'd suggest asking somewhere between £15 and £20 would be reasonable.

I think a lot of the £55 came from the shop?

Well, I know you're not really interested in the money ( ) so just think how often you're going to be spending time with her in the evening, and how much money you think I'd pay for the privilege! When you're actually being paid to spend time with her out of hours, and I get even more jealous than I am when merely considering the prospect, you may have to raise your fee to allow me a cut, to soften the blow. Isn't it wonderful, being paid to do someone something you love!

I'll be interested to see how much work gets done... Obviously the extensive research into finding a tutor failed, so she ended up coming back to you...

Actaully, she doesn't seem to have corresponded with her mum, she's just asked me how much I would charge under the assumption that I was going to do it...

And yes, getting paid to spend time with Chloe maths is wonderful!

I pay my maths tutor £15 for an hour, and my brother pays his £20. My brother's is more established and popular than mine and therefore as he has a waiting list has to charge more.
I would say anything from £15 upwards.
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I was going to say £10/hr until I read KJs post. I would have said KJ was doing well to get £10/hr in her youth. I used to pay that around the same time for driving lessons, which was in an era before the web had been invented.

You could always charge in hexadecimal, and since your friend is poor at maths, they will think they are getting a bargain. So, my advice is to charge £0x10 an hour.

X doesn't exist in Hex tho....

If you had been reading your C/C++/C# books properly you would understand that 0x is the base specifier for hexadecimal constants (it is &H in VB and its derivatives but we spit on that, don't we)

Ah, I see. I stand corrected!

And yes, we do spit on VB. Dirty, dirty language.

Thing is, this friend is very intelligent!!!!

This thread has made me think that i should offer maths tutoring - i'd be rich lol. *regretting signing up to do voluntary unpaid maths mentoring at school now*

I plan to get me a week primary school child and charge their parents more because they aren't my friend as well I'm not corrupt at all. I settled, incidentally, on around £10.

*soooo jealous!!*

£15 when I can't cope

She said her mum wouldn't pay £15. I just relish getting paid for doing maths! Isn't having a job wonderful...

In that case, you'll end up with £5 at the end of it...

You are not having my hard-earned money!

i'd be happy with £5 (its more than what i get for babysitting - i must put my rates up lol)

If you're going to her house on a regular basis getting up to goodness knows what, I want some form of comfort!!

Find something you enjoy, and charge others for you to do it

I already have, but I need to do it somewhere else for it to make more money

how did you find the primary students to teach? The whole maths tutoring for money idea really appeals to me.

Do you find, maybe... I haven't started yet! Though I plan to put an advert in the local free paper and take it from there...

I'm a bit late, but I do the same as you and charge £10/h

You may find maths easy, but teaching maths is a whole new ball game

Not new for me I actually do have a certain amount of experience, because none of my friends understand maths, and I have explained to various people just about everything we've done since the start of last year until they get it...