What you take home
Switch on the hours you could teach. The money follows the week, not the other way round.
Your rate
$48/lesson
A rate here buys one 50-minute lesson, so it is the lesson that is priced rather than the hour. The slider runs the whole marketplace, floor to ceiling.
What you take home in a month, on this week
$2,936
17 lessons a week at $48, on four weeks, with Saal’s 10% already taken off. A free first half hour is not counted here — nobody is paid for one, and you cap how many of them you take.
What families pay
What you keep
The grey tail is Saal’s 10% — $82 of this week$1,008 if you taught every slot
- A week
- $734
- A school year, 36 weeks
- $26,424
Who gets in
Four things are asked of you. Four more are not, and those are usually the ones people are checking for.
Not asked for
- A teaching credential or a state licence
- A minimum number of hours, or any exclusivity
- A fee — to list, to hold a slot, or to be found
- Students of your own to bring with you
A degree in the subject, or a transcript that shows it
The institution confirms it to us, not a scan you send. One in progress counts.
Two years of teaching or tutoring
A classroom, a TA post, student teaching or a tutoring centre all count.
Ninety minutes, timed, in the subject you applied for
Scored by a senior tutor on real problems. It stops the most people.
The right to work in the United States
A W-9 at sign-up and a 1099 in January. We do not sponsor visas.
The five checks
Five checks, and this is your half of them.
The other half is somebody else waiting on a record. Four of the five you can start on the day you apply.
Check 01
Photo ID
A government photo ID, held up to your phone.
Under an hour
Persona, at application
Check 02
Degree or transcript
Your school, your degree and the year. We ask them.
Three to ten days
National Student Clearinghouse
Check 03
Criminal background check
Legal name, date of birth and SSN, on Checkr's form.
Two to five days
Checkr, yearly
Check 04
Subject test
Ninety minutes, timed, whenever you are ready.
Ninety minutes, timed
Saal senior tutors
Check 05
First three lessons
Three lessons with real students, recorded and paid.
Three weeks
Saal review team
What the cut buys
Saal keeps 10%. This is the card it buys you, and the four things standing behind it.
The profile does the selling
Your photograph, what each check found, every review and a video intro. You never write a pitch.
Nobody is assigned to you
You open the slots and a family picks one. No queue, no matching, nothing you did not agree to.
The listing’s own card, not a mockup
Paid every Friday
Into a bank account, for the lessons that finished by the Wednesday. No invoice to raise.
They come back to you
A family saves you, compares you against two others, and holds the same hour every week.
In their words
Three tutors, on the part nobody warns you about
“I teach January through May and I list nothing the rest of the year. Nobody has ever asked me to explain that. The weekly slots I give up in June are the same ones waiting when I come back.”
Dana Whitfield$58/lesson
Seattle · Online
“The subject test took me two sittings and I was annoyed about it for a week. Then I noticed nobody here asks me to justify what I charge — the badge has already had that argument before I turn up.”
Theo Alvarez$55/lesson
Los Angeles · Online or in person
“Every lesson I teach is at somebody's kitchen table, and I have never once had to have the conversation about where I sit or who else is home. That is settled before I get there, and not by me.”
Ellen Mercer$38/lesson
Philadelphia · In person
FAQ
Six a tutor asks, and not one of them is a question a parent has
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