Fair charge for one-on-one Linux tutoring; advice

[Dave Bour]

Just to throw my hat in the ring, I charge $110 an hour for training.
For some more esoteric training, for one - on - one, I've a business
partner running a training facility that bills his staff out at $3000 a
day + expenses.  $50 would not be out of line at all for professional
quality training, with a skilled trainer.  My view is you get what you
pay for.  Someone having done a $20/hr training, probably got what it
was worth, or maybe that's where their level was at.  They probably
could have done just as well picking up a $50 book and reading it for a
couple of days.

D. 


Dave Bour
Desktop Solution Center
905.381.0077
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http://www.desktopsolutioncenter.ca

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From: owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org [mailto:owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Austin
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 10:41 AM
To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Fair charge for one-on-one Linux tutoring; advice
Importance: High

On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 23:11 -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 06:21:12PM -0500, Madison Kelly wrote:
> >   I have been asked to teach/tutor someone new to Linux one-on-one. 
> > I have taught at college before so I do have an idea what I am 
> > getting myself into but what I am at a bit of a loss for is what 
> > would a fair fee per hour be. Has anyone done this before? How would

> > you calculate a fair fee?
> 
> I would say $50/hour.

I agree.

As a chemistry grad student, we charge $30-$40 per hour to tutor
students out-of-school.  A few people recently started charging $20 per
hour, which is hardly worth our time, and has essentially "ruined the
market" for the rest of us.

A college professor teaching out-of-school would charge a minimum of $50
per hour I'm sure.  I would.  Hell, we make more than that IN school.

Keep in mind that your ability to *teach* should be valued as high as
(if not higher than) your *knowledge*.

Austin

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