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Work out what you should actually charge. Start from the income you need, subtract the hours and money you never get paid for, then check the number against your subject, level and experience.
Find your sustainable hourly rate
Your sustainable floor
£42 / hour
Charge less than this and your target income is out of reach at these hours.
Recommended rate
£41 / hour
Your floor, raised to the market band when your costs would otherwise have you undercharging.
Suggested range
£32–£43
Where your subject, level and experience place you against local rates.
Your target fits your market
The £42 an hour you need sits inside the range your subject, level and experience support. That is the comfortable case: hold this rate, protect your hours from no-shows, and the target holds.
Real hourly earning
£24 / hour
Take-home divided by every hour worked, prep and admin included.
Monthly revenue
£2,767
At 67 taught hours a month.
Monthly take-home
£2,000
After business costs and your tax set-aside.
At £41 an hour, across a quiet month, a normal month and a full book.
| Month | Taught hours | Revenue | Take-home |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quiet month60% | 40 | £1,660 | £1,170 |
| Normal month80% | 54 | £2,213 | £1,585 |
| Full book100% | 67 | £2,767 | £2,000 |
Take-home is after business costs and your tax set-aside. Multiplying a full month by twelve is the most common way tutors overestimate a year.
The same rate, expressed the three ways students actually buy.
One to one
£41 / hour
Group of 3, per student
£24 / hour
About 58 percent of your 1:1 rate each, £71 for the session.
Block of 10 lessons
£369
Works out at £37 an hour.
Blocks trade a discount for certainty. They only pay off if the discount is small enough that your floor still holds.
At £41 an hour, 67 taught hours a month is £2,767 a month.
Teamlilit tracks the lessons and billable time behind that income: attendance and per-student join and leave times are captured from the live room, then billed straight onto an invoice, so the hours you planned and the hours you get paid for are the same number.
This is a planning tool, not financial or tax advice. Figures are estimates based on what you enter, and tax rules vary by country. Check the current guidance where you live.
Setting the number is the easy half. The income arrives only if the hours you teach are the hours you bill, week after week.
Teamlilit records attendance and lesson time from the live classroom, turns it into billable minutes, and bills it. No spreadsheet reconciliation, no forgotten lessons, no hours quietly written off.
Enter your target take-home for the year, your business costs, and the share of profit you set aside for tax. The calculator works backwards from the money you keep to the revenue you have to bill.
Paid teaching hours per week, teaching weeks per year, and the prep and admin behind each hour. Add the percentage of booked hours lost to no-shows and gaps. These four numbers decide how many hours your rate has to carry.
Pick your subject, level and experience, then enter what comparable tutors near you advertise. We position you against that figure rather than inventing a national average that may not match your town.
The floor is the least you can charge and still hit your target. The range is where your profile sits locally. The verdict tells you whether those two meet, and what to change when they do not.
Most tutors set a rate by looking at what everyone else charges and shading a little under it. That produces a number you can defend in conversation and cannot live on. A rate has to satisfy two conditions at once: it has to cover the life you are trying to fund, and it has to be a price your market will actually pay.
Your hourly rate is the last number to calculate, not the first. Start with what you need to keep for the year, add your business costs, then gross it up for the tax you will owe. That total is the revenue you have to bill, and it is almost always higher than tutors expect.
Divide that by the hours you will genuinely teach and you have your floor. Anything below it means you are funding your own business out of your savings, slowly, while feeling busy.
A cost-based floor can produce a silly number in both directions. A tutor with low costs and a modest target can arrive at a rate well below what parents in their area happily pay, and leave thousands on the table for years. A tutor with an ambitious target and twelve teaching hours a week can arrive at a rate nobody local will pay.
That is why this calculator asks what comparable tutors near you charge and positions your subject, level and experience against it. The verdict box exists for exactly the second case: when your target genuinely does not fit the hours you teach, the honest fix is the target, the hours or the format, not a rate you will end up discounting anyway.
Fifteen minutes of prep and admin per teaching hour is modest, and it still means a twenty-hour teaching week is a twenty-five hour working week. Your real hourly earning is take-home divided by every hour worked, and it is usually a good deal lower than the number on your website.
Prep time does not change what you must charge per taught hour, but it changes what the job is worth to you. Seeing both numbers side by side is often what convinces a tutor to raise a rate they have held for three years, or to cut the prep rather than the price.
A group class is the only lever that raises your income per hour without raising anybody's bill. Price a group so each student pays meaningfully less than 1:1 while you earn meaningfully more per hour, and both sides are better off. This calculator uses a common approach where a group of four pays about half the 1:1 rate each, so the session earns you double.
Block bookings work the other way: you trade revenue for certainty. A ten percent discount on half your lessons is a five percent cut to your whole business, so it has to buy something real, such as commitment for a term or payment up front. Set both here and the calculator folds them into the rate you need to advertise.
Got your rate? Take it to the earnings calculator to project what it pays per week, month and year, including any platform commission.
Project my earningsSet the rate, fill the week, track the hours, bill them.
How the rate is worked out, and what to do with the answer.
