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How Does First Tutors Work?

Step 1: Register free to begin advertising your tutoring services across your local area. This enables you to showcase your qualifications and experience and to specify where and when you wish to tutor.

Step 2: Receive enquiries through our service from prospective tutees. Decide whether you wish to accept their request, decline or discuss their needs further using your personal member's panel. By accepting a tutee request, you agree that should the tutee later also confirm their wish to commence tuition, you are happy to pay your fee to First Tutors. Tuition requests come through year round. We ask tutors to reply to requests swiftly.

Step 3: Exchange contact details with your tutee and commence teaching. If your prospective tutee is happy with your offer and accepts the agreement, we arrange for your contact details to be swapped. You are issued an e-mail detailing your new tutee's contact details and our introductory fee. We also charge parents £7.50 for their introduction to you to verify that they are a genuine enquiry.

Fees

First Tutors fees have been designed to provide a competitive alternative to the tuition agency as a source of finding tutees for self-employed tutors. We ask for a one-off advertising fee only when both parties confirm a tuition agreement. In essence, this is like paying for "cost-per-lead" advertising. Rather than paying to join to a directory without knowing if it will be effective in generating enquiries, we say pay when it works.

First Tutors charges £2.50 plus 3.50% of your hourly rate for the first five hours of requested tuition if the tuition arrangement is confirmed by both parties. The idea being, your advertising cost is easily covered by your first lessons's fees and relates to the quality of the lead. If a tutee requests more than five hours of tuition, we charge 2.00% of your hourly rate for hours five to ten. You only pay us this fee once per tuition contract, not after every lesson.

To give you an idea how our pricing structure will work with your rates please use our calculation tool:

Please enter your tutoring fees: (per hour) - £

Hours You Tutor Value of the Hours Our One-Off Fee You Earn
1£18.00£3.13£14.87
2£36.00£3.76£32.24
3£54.00£4.39£49.61
4£72.00£5.02£66.98
5£90.00£5.65£84.35
6£108.00£6.01£101.99
7£126.00£6.37£119.63
8£144.00£6.73£137.27
9£162.00£7.09£154.91
10£180.00£7.45£172.55
11£198.00£7.45£190.55
12£216.00£7.45£208.55
13£234.00£7.45£226.55
14£252.00£7.45£244.55
15£270.00£7.45£262.55