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ayahyaha

I am looking for online teaching work and have found a huge range of pay offered, from $8/hr upwards.

I have three years of teaching experience (not online) and most of the jobs I am looking at provide the materials and syllabus (i.e. not too much prep time involved).

What do you think, or do you know, what reasonable pay (per 60 minute lesson) would be?

Thanks for your thoughts.

hollysuel · Joined: 07 Oct 2007 Posts: 225 Location: Connecticut, USA

Right now, there is really no standard pay. I have been asking people and have received rates between 10 euro per hour up to 82 euro an hour. It really depends on your qualifications and experience. If you use a virtual classroom and actually have training in live online language teaching (as opposed to just language teaching), you can ask for more. It also depends on what language you teach. For example, English teachers in the Philippines and India have driven down the price for live online English instruction.

If you are serious about this type of teaching, I would seek training such as the LANCELOT certificate http://www.lancelotschool.com which specializes in training language teachers in virtual classroom technology OR the Consultants-e http://www.theconsultants-e.com/, which specializes in technology in general to all teachers I believe. Both organizations have accredited courses--LANCELOT through ICC and Consultants-e through trinity.

ayahyaha · Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 2:55 am Post subject:

Thank you so much for such a concise answer. What you indicate is about what I expected.

I have run into some prospective employers (for US-based companies) who refuse to make an offer until I have stated a per-lesson amount, and it's frustrating.

Thanks again.

ayahyaha · Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 2:07 am Post subject:

Update:

I have been looking around a lot and found many freelance teachers based in North America and Asia offering their services via Skype from $15-$20/60 minutes.

In Europe, I have seen 15-25 euros for the same thing.

I also recently heard about a job with a US-based company that pays $14/60 minutes, and another that pays about $10.50/60 minutes.

Neither of those jobs sound like a good deal to me, because there is lots of lesson preparation involved and most lessons are personalised, and therefore harder to recycle.