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vicinage_of_roland · Joined: 01 Nov 2004 Posts: 17 Location: Krakow, Poland

Hello all, I'm currently teaching in Krakow and am making a decent amount of money, but would like to have extra money on hand for if I wanted to travel or what not. What is the best way to acquire private students? How much would be a fair charge in a larger city like Krakow? Should I advertise around the city, and if so should I make the advertisements out in Polish or English? Or, if there is any other means of supplementing income I would be interested in hearing about that as well. Thanks for the help.

Alex Shulgin · Joined: 20 Jul 2003 Posts: 553

You should be able to charge 60PLN per 45 minutes in Krakow. Here in Warsaw the going rate is 75 for 45 minutes. Don't advertise your services unless you are actually registered as a business and pay at least some tax on the money that you earn as a private teacher. Tax offices just love to go thru' the paper and look for private teachers. They call you up, go to one lesson, pay you some money and then you're done for not paying taxes.

Other income sources? Tried proofreading?

XXX · Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 10:09 pm Post subject:

If you are a half decent teacher, they should beat a path to your door. In Stalowa Wola, I got 40/hr.

old school · Joined: 03 Nov 2004 Posts: 3

As an ESL teacher who had private students in a variety of cities and towns in southern Poland, I charged 60 zl an hour and I knew some who charged 70-80 zl an hour.

Then, I was offered a private student in Krakow and when I asked for 60 zl she hesitantly accepted and then called back to cancel because it was too much money. Perhaps I wasn't as lucky as some of the other people who mentioned their private lesson fees, but in Krakow I know several native speakers who charged 30-40 zl an hour. I was told by some of the other native speakers who have been in Krakow for 2-3 years that the market is just flooded with native speakers willing to charge lower rates to make some more cash.

Alex Shulgin · Joined: 20 Jul 2003 Posts: 553

^ That is the problem with Krakow. The demand for lessons is there to charge reasonable price for private lessons (reasonable meaning that the price is halway between what schools charge students and what schools pay to teachers). The problem is that Krakow is a very attractive place to live and so the supply of teachers is very high.

vicinage_of_roland · Joined: 01 Nov 2004 Posts: 17 Location: Krakow, Poland

I also have the additional problem of teaching Callan at the moment. I'm trained in the communicative metod, but took the only job that was offered to me so I could pay the bills. Is there anyway to crosstrain and get my name out to those of the communicative schools?