Ok, I'm looking for some feedback here. I have an opportunity to do some private lessons, but I have never set a rate.
the lessons would be at my school. Tutoring charges there range from $35-$70/hr. Qualifications range from high school diplomas to post doctoral work. The school charges tutors $5/hr of that to let you use the room. I teach pottery. I would charge the standard $65 annual firing and materials fee on top of tutoring charges.
i have 8 years of classroom experience in this subject at this location. I have additional classroom, club, and summer program experience with a variety of ages in a variety of other subjects and I homeschooled for 13 years. I have a 4 year general teaching degree and significant continuing education credit in my subject. I sell (as in have had actual sales) my own work professionally at a level that if I were a retail store on a scale of Walmart to Tiffani's, I'd be in the Macy's range.
Parents pay pay a standard $8.75 - $11.62 for regular hourly classes (discounts for more hours because the administrative overhead doesn't really increase)
i am am a very good teacher. But my subject is an "elective".
i am am also kind of a socialist and wish I could teach for free. But the feed store and the power company keep charging me money.
so, with that data, can you give me some honest feedback on what you think you would consider a reasonable rate? As in, in the market I have described, you would suggest me to a friend looking for classes and not say "but she's kind of expensive."