Tutorboss · Tutoring Business Freedom Calculator

How much are you really making from your own teaching?

Your headline rate is not your real rate. Once the platform cut, the fees, the cancellations and all that unpaid prep come out, the number that actually lands in your pocket per hour of your life is a lot smaller. Here is yours.

Your true effective rate

$22.12/hr

You keep 55% of your $40.00 headline rate, and work 1.25 hours for every paid hour.

Where your headline rate leaks

Platform / agency commission-$10.00/hr
Payment processing fees-$0.90/hr
Cancellations & no-shows-$1.46/hr
Per-hour expenses-$0.00/hr
Unpaid time (prep, admin, travel)-$5.53/hr

Leaked per year

$11,861

Unpaid hours / year

240 hrs

Real take-home / year

$26,539

If you kept it all

$38,400

Lisa's take

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What this assumes

Based on 48 working weeks per year.
Fees apply in sequence: commission first, then processing on what's left.
Cancelled and no-show sessions lose their income; prep and travel already spent aren't separately charged.
Travel time is converted to a per-hour cost using your typical session length.

See where every dollar goes