What a lesson costs
Six bands, and every rate sits inside one.
One axis, so the overlap shows: four of the six meet around fifty dollars.
Tutors price themselves inside these ranges, and the ranges are the same in every subject. Pick the year you are buying for; everything below re-prices around it.
And the same question asked by subject
All sixteen subjectsA band is a range; a figure below is a person — the least anyone asks to teach that subject, at any level. So Spanish opens at $26 while its band starts higher.
What you actually pay
Four ways to buy one person’s hour.
At $44, what most high school tutors charge. A rate buys 50 minutes; longer lessons are pro rata against that.
A first lesson
$2760 min
The first half hour of any lesson is free. No card to hold it.
- A 60-minute lesson
- $53
- First thirty minutes
- −$26
Off the first lesson with any tutor, once for each one you meet.
One lesson
$5360 min
Booked around the week. Nothing repeats, nothing renews.
- A 60-minute lesson
- $53
No card is kept. Book the next one when your week allows it.
A weekly slot
$5360 min, weekly
The same hour every week, held until you give it up. Skip any week.
- This week's lesson
- $53
Then $53/wk, and the week you stop is the last one charged.
A 10-lesson pack
$47710 lessons
Paid once, used whenever. 10 lessons for the price of 9.
- 10 lessons at 60 minutes
- $530
- One lesson in every 10
- −$53
$53 back against 10 lessons paid as 9, taken off the price today.
A year of it
The number nobody quotes you.
Sold by the lesson and paid by the month, so nobody writes this figure down until it has already happened.
$3,816
36 teaching weeks, a school year with the holidays out: 72 lessons at $53 each, 2 a week of 60 minutes.
- A term, 15 weeks
- $1,590 · 30 lessons
- 10 lessons before an exam
- $530 · however you space them
The one lever is the pack: 10 billed as 9, and a year holds 7 of them. Take every one and $371 comes off.
Your own three numbers
Opened on high school. Move any of them and the year follows.
Lessons a week
Lesson length
Your tutor’s rate
$44/hr
$424/mo
8 lessons a month, at $53 each — a 60-minute lesson against a rate quoted for 50. A ten-lesson pack takes $53 off that.
Where the money goes
We would rather show you the cut than tell you there isn’t one.
Every marketplace here is paid something. The ones that say otherwise put it on your side and call it a service charge.
$44
What the tutor asks
Set by them. High school sits here today.
$44
What you pay
The same number. No fee, no membership, nothing at the checkout.
10%
What Saal keeps
$4.00 of a lesson at this band, from their side, after it happens.
So a high school tutor keeps $40 of a median lesson, and nothing of a first half hour. Their side of the arithmetic is on teaching with Saal.
Where to start
Nothing to pay until you have met somebody.
The first half hour is free and takes no card. Everything after it is yours to move, cancel or ask for back.
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