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Tutor income calculator

Estimate your teaching revenue with room for holidays and cancelled lessons.

Your teaching week

Total hours across your students at one rate.

Your price for one teaching hour.

Change the unit, not the rate. No currency conversion.

Exclude weeks off. 48 weeks allows four weeks off.

Share of planned hours cancelled without payment or a make-up lesson.

Estimated gross revenue

USD 48,000per year
Monthly average
USD 4,000
Per teaching week
USD 1,000

How your year adds up

52 weeks, no cancellations
USD 52,000
Less: weeks off
USD 4,000
Less: unpaid cancellations
USD 0

Estimated gross revenue before expenses and taxes. Actual payments may arrive at different times.

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The arithmetic, made clear

How to calculate tutoring income

For one-to-one lessons at one hourly rate, enter all your planned teaching hours across students.

Annual revenue = Planned teaching hours per week × Hourly rate × Teaching weeks per year × (1 − Unpaid cancellations (%) ÷ 100)

Monthly average is annual revenue divided by 12, including time off. Weekly revenue reflects unpaid cancellations.

Same rate, a different teaching year

Planned teaching hours per week: 20. Hourly rate: USD 50.

52 weeks, no cancellations
USD 52,000
48 · Teaching weeks per year
USD 48,000
48 · Less: unpaid cancellations (10%)
USD 43,200

These are examples, not typical earnings or recommended rates.

Questions about your estimate

Is this take-home pay?

No. This is estimated gross revenue before expenses and taxes, and it is not a record of payments received.

What if a cancelled lesson is paid or rescheduled?

Only include cancellations that are unpaid and have no make-up lesson. Do not count weeks off again as cancellations.

Can I use this for groups or different rates?

This estimate assumes one-to-one lessons at one rate. Calculate other rates separately; use total revenue per teaching hour for a group.

Practical guides for independent tutors

Choose a way to manage your lessons, keep clear payment records, and write notes you can use next time.

01

Software for independent tutors: spreadsheet or app?

A spreadsheet is a useful starting point when you can keep lesson and payment records consistent yourself. An app becomes useful when you repeatedly copy information between your calendar, student notes and payment tracker. Choose based on the work you repeat, the devices you use and the cost you can justify.

02

Prepaid vs postpaid tutoring: track lessons and payments

Prepaid tutoring starts with a payment for future lessons; postpaid tutoring creates an amount to collect after teaching. Track completed lessons, money received and the remaining balance separately. A completed lesson is not proof of payment, and a prepaid receipt should be counted only once.

03

A tutoring lesson record template for useful follow-up

A useful lesson record captures what was taught, what the student demonstrated, the homework and the next teaching action. Keep observations specific enough to plan the next class without reconstructing the whole lesson. Use a student reference and include only information needed for teaching.