Where tutors earn online
Tutors teach one-to-one lessons online in school subjects, test prep and skills, either setting their own rate on marketplaces or at a fixed rate on companies that supply the students.
Also for
- teacher
- instructor
- homework helper
How tutors earn
- 1Your own rate on tutoring marketplaces
- 2Fixed-rate tutoring for companies that find the students
- 3Test prep and university subjects, which pay more
Marketplaces often take a large cut of each new student's first lessons, so long-term students are worth much more.
What the work is worth
Guess first: what does a typical US tutor earn in a year?
US employees in the closest official occupation (SOC 25-3041), Bureau of Labor Statistics, May 2025. A benchmark for what the work is worth, not what a platform pays.
The best matches for tutors
PreplyOnline tutoring platform★ 3.918–33%
italkiLanguage tutoring marketplace★ 3.415–30%
VedantuTutoring platform★ 4.0Salaried and per-hour…
TutorooTutoring marketplace★ 3.8Direct pay from studen…
SuperprofTutoring marketplace★ 3.710%
GoStudentTutoring platform★ 3.40%
Best matched first: platforms built for this work, then matching tags, kind and description.
Where the work is
The kinds of platform where tutors find work, sized by how many we matched.
| Kind | Platforms |
|---|---|
| Tutoring platforms | 39 |
| Course platforms | 11 |
| Task platforms | 1 |
Tour a kind
Keep more of what you earn
Of the 12 matched platforms that publish a percentage fee, these take the smallest cut (median 17.5%).
| Platform | Fee |
|---|---|
| Kajabi | 1.3% |
| Whop | 5.7% |
| Maven | 10% |
| Taling | 10% |
| TutorOcean | 12.5% |
| Verbling | 15% |
| TutorBees | 20% |
| Studypool | 20% |
| italki | 22.5% |
| Wyzant | 25% |
| Outschool | 30% |
| MyTutor | 49% |
