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Non Sequitur
Joined: 23 May 2010
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Location: China
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| Bud Powell wrote: |
If you're a good teacher at your school, private tutees will find you. My rate starts at rmb 200 per hour for oral tutoring, depending upon the age and the ability of the student. I'll bump it down to rmb 150 per hour for conversation in groups of three, two hour minimum. (Each student pays 50 rmb). I actually prefer doing group work.
For written tutoring, my fee starts at rmb 250 and goes up depending upon the age of the student and the nature of the writing. I don't like doing one-on-one work (especially writing), so if someone wants my services, he has to pay for them. Until recently, I got a lot of work through the FAO and through Chinese teachers. |
That's my experience too.
In true TIC style it will be the main FAO rule enforcer who will approach you in the corridor and open the discussion with:
'My friend wants to emigrate to Canada, but his English isn't good..' |
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Listerine
Joined: 15 Jun 2014
Posts: 340
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Here's what I wrote elsewhere recently with regard to Hangzhou, but the info is generally relevant for most Chinese cities....
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Get email contact details for private schools in town or show up in person. Most of them need extra teachers on weekends and holidays - especially the big chains like WEB and Shane.
Be sociable and to foreign and Chinese co-teachers and they'll often pass you part time gigs, privates or contact info. The foreign language department dean at my school was always getting requests from locals asking for PT teachers. Depending on how laid back your FAO is they can sometimes line you up with gigs - I'd fully expect them to be getting a cut though.
Email recruiters and ask. I still randomly get PT offers from some.
Check echinacities for your town. Often has part time job listings.
Likely also a Hangzhou expat page too. Ditto for above.
Some people advertise on sites like 58.com that they are looking, but I think it's *perhaps* a little risky, and the friends I knew who were doing it just got full time offers anyhow.
Network, baby, network!
As far as what is a fair pay if you ask on here you'll get all kinds of fantastic figures for what people claim to be making for privates. 600/hr kinds of rubbish complete with accusations that you are destroying the market if you accept anything less. Much of it seems to be based on wishful thinking and delusion rather than fixed to any grounded reality. Shoot for 150~200 per hour for a city like Hangzhou. Try to get a few hours blocked together to make it worth getting ready, travel time etc. If you can make more - great, but that's a semi-standard type rate for Tier 1.5 cities like Hangers. |
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Voyeur
Joined: 03 Jul 2012
Posts: 431
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I can attest that rates do seem lower in smaller cities, on the whole. This being China, there are no hard and fast rules.
I generally prefer working at a language school to teaching privates. You get more money per hour with privates, but typically the extra cash doesn't really cover the extra travel time and uncertainty, etc. But of course, sometimes it does. Working at a language school does increase your risk of getting caught teaching outside of the limits of your visa though.
I think 150 / hour is decent in a second-tier city if you have block hours, still get paid for cancellations, and have little to no preparation. |
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LarssonCrew
Joined: 06 Jun 2009
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I've found recently that it's more the convenience over money for me.
For instance, I managed to block '5' students into one morning and lunchtime block on Sundays, each one paying 175 per hour.
Now, I could probably have gotten 200 going to their houses, but in this coffee shop I go in at 9am and I'm out at 2pm, 875 RMB up[although I insist on them paying for ten hours up front], and I'm home at 3:15.
However, if I had to go to houses, say 30 minutes travelling between[plus travel fees, taxi, bike etc], I'd need 1 1/2 hours to go between each gig, so although I'd be making 1000, I'd be making 1000 for say 7 hours of work, instead of 875 in one location for 5 hours.
Anywho, another thing I dislike is teaching at student's housing because it's much harder to take a break. In a coffee shop I can go to buy a quick snack, go to the toilet etc. without being still in their environment. |
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