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What an hour should cost, and why the range is so wide

Nathan Zhou

Statistics, plus the R and Excel your course grades$52/lessonSeattle

(Paying for it)

An hour of tutoring in the US runs from about twenty dollars to about seventy, and nearly all of that spread is one variable.

Jul 2, 20268 minutes

The level sets the rate

A tutor teaching middle-school algebra and one teaching first-year college calculus are not selling the same product. The gap between those two hours is wider than the gap between a tutor in their first year and one in their fifteenth.

What the top of the band buys

Usually scarcity rather than skill. There are far fewer people who can teach BC calculus on a Tuesday evening than there are who can teach fractions, and a rate is a market before it is a judgement.

Ask what the tutor keeps

The number worth asking about is the share. A platform taking a third of the rate is a platform whose tutors have to charge half again to earn the same hour. Ours takes a tenth and the family pays no service fee on top of the price shown.

Judge it against the hours

Four lessons at fifty-five that fix the thing beat twelve at thirty that do not. The rate is only half a price; the other half is how many of them you end up buying.

Who wrote this

Nathan Zhou

Statistics, plus the R and Excel your course grades

I work with undergraduates and career changers who need inference to make sense before the software will. Bring the dataset your class gave you and we will use that.

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