Going rate for a math tutor

[t-dog]

So I have to hire a math tutor for my son for the summer. He has essentially failed at least half of the year. Teacher is horrible, many kids struggling but teacher has seniority so school can't move him on to greener pastures.   Anyone know the going rate for a tutor (former 6th grade teacher that he really like has agreed to tutor but asked me to "make her an offer" as to rate). I plan on having him meet tutor 2 times weekly for an hour a session all summer. Generally a higher than lower cost of living area - not San Francisco high, but still in California high.

[giramomma]

This is what I found on Angie's List.
www.angieslist.com/articles/how-much-should-tutoring-cost.htm

Around here, folks are willing to pay a college kid with much less experience 20/hour or so to tutor. I live in a MCOLA. I could reasonably see paying $30/hour.

[t-dog]

$30 was what I was thinking but had no idea if it was reasonable. Thanks.

[debthaven]

I would say either $30 or $35 an hour. If you're in a generally HCOLA, I think it's more like $35. Will she come to your home, or will your son go to her home? Here, it could be more expensive if she came to your home. I know I'm in Europe but prices here are generally comparable to the coasts there, and here, it's generally $35 now if the person comes to you.

We've been paying DS3's math tutor $35, she comes to the house once a week.

I tutor (advanced) English, I charge $35 too. I charge the same price if the person comes to me or if I go to them, but I won't travel more than a few min away, otherwise, they have to come to me. DS3's math tutor goes within a 20-min radius of where she lives.

ETA: Per Gira's post, yes, students would get paid less. But they have to know how to teach, it's not enough to be good at math. IME some are great at it, others, not so much.

[milee]

Around here (kind of MCOLA):

$40/hr for an actual math teacher, but that also means s/he travels to your location.

$30/hr for a tutor at a fixed location.

Can probably find college kids for $20/hr, but it's potluck whether they'll be good at teaching. Some are fantastic teachers, some aren't.

[justme]

If someone does look for college students - a good place to look is the school sponsored tutoring if not there then GTAs if the major does help desks. I tutored at college and made 6-10 an hour. When some students would ask for private tutoring I'd jump at the 20 an hour rate.

[debthaven]

On the other hand, if you're taking her twice a week, that is an argument for $30 rather than $35. In that case you could offer her $30, she probably doesn't have a ton of work during the summer. But the going rate may be more like $35, dunno.

[t-dog]

Not interested in a student. The current math teacher has a PhD in math but can't teach his way out of a paper bag. So many complaints from kids its unreal but seniority is God so we are stuck with him. School can no longer claim to have highest test scores in the district - that decline started with the arrival of this particular teacher. The tutor I have lined up lives in our neighborhood. My boy just finished an hour plus of meeting with the actual math teacher after school today and still is clueless. They have a 10 chapter final exam next Monday which isn't going to be pretty. Who gives finals in 7th grade anyway!

[GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl]

We paid $140/hour for a total of approximately $2,000 this past Winter for our college freshman. It was worth every penny. He was a math major and former engineer who started tutoring his own kids years ago when his kids began to hate math. He had all of his own materials and assessments and taught our son a bunch of useful strategies.

[cronewitch]

When my great niece was 10 her mother paid 13 year old boys to tutor her in math. She has down syndrome and would fight her mother making her study but worshiped older boys and would work her heart out to impress them she only paid $10 an hour in her home so good deal for the boys and her not having to fight her daughter. I don't know what she paid her son's math tutors but he got through advanced placement math. Sometimes a kid slightly older is enough but a good one will be expensive.

[simser]

I'm a tutor now (part time gig). Id say 30-40/hour if they are educated and teach the subject already.

[t-dog]

$30/hour was an acceptable rate to the teacher - thanks all!