Teaching · For Tutors · Pricing

Package prices
you can defend,
session by session.

Type your single-session rate and the packages you want to offer. The calculator prices each one, rounds it the way you choose, and shows what every package pays you per hour once your own costs come out.

Price my packagesWhat you get
$12one-time · every device you sign in on
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Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Or get it in the Tutoring business kit, $69 for 64 items.

The package calculator

The worked example is made up: a tutor who charges $65 for an hour, spends about $6 a session on materials and platform fees, and offers four packages. Nothing you type leaves this browser.

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What you get

Teaching · For Tutors$12 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
A price list for every package you offer: the package price after your discount and rounding, the price per session, what the family saves and what you earn per hour after costs, with a warning when a discount cuts too deep. It prints as a one-page summary and downloads as a spreadsheet.
Who it is for
Independent tutors and small tutoring businesses setting package prices, and teachers who tutor on the side.
Format
Browser calculator for a phone, tablet or computer, by touch or keyboard. Up to 12 packages. Prints a summary; downloads a spreadsheet (.csv); export and import a file.
Access
$12 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the Tutoring business kit ($69) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The For Tutors space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions, a correction or a request: team@caveatacademic.com.

How to use it

  1. Type your single-session rate, the session length and what a session costs you.
  2. Add each package with its number of sessions and the discount you have in mind.
  3. Choose how prices round: to the cent, or to the nearest $1, $5 or $10.
  4. Compare pay per hour across packages and adjust any discount that cuts too deep.
  5. Print the price list or download the spreadsheet.

Price my packages

How a package is priced

From the single-session rate to your pay per hour.

The semester pack in the worked example1 · List price$78012 sessions × $652 · Less 15%$663$780 − $1173 · Rounded to $5$665the package price4 · Per session$55.42$665 ÷ 125 · Less your cost$49.42$6 a session6 · Per hour$49.4260-minute sessionsThe semester pack1 · List price$78012 × $652 · Less 15%$663before rounding3 · Rounded$665to the nearest $54 · Per session$55.42$665 ÷ 125 · Less your cost$49.42$6 a session6 · Per hour$49.4260 minutes
Six steps from the single-session rate to what a package pays you. The semester pack in the example: $780 at list, $665 after the discount and rounding, $49.42 an hour after costs.

The arithmetic

The list price is the single-session rate times the sessions in the package. The discount comes off the list price, and the result is rounded half up to the step you pick. Price per session is the package price divided by its sessions. Pay per hour subtracts your cost per session for every session in the package and divides by the hours of tutoring it holds. Prep, messages and travel time are not counted, so your real hourly pay is lower; the Tutoring Hourly Rate Calculator covers those.

Choosing a discount

A package is worth a discount when it brings something the single session does not: a family committed for a term, fewer gaps in your week, payment up front. In the example the semester pack still pays about 84% of the single-session hourly rate, which many tutors treat as the floor; past that, every booked package hour pays noticeably less than a single one. Put the terms in writing before a family pays: how long sessions stay valid, how cancellations count and what is refunded if the family stops.

Sources

  1. Federal Trade Commission, Guides Against Deceptive Pricing (16 CFR Part 233): a savings claim measured against a regular price should use a price you actually charge, so the family-saves figure is set against your real single-session rate.
  2. U.S. Small Business Administration small business guides (sba.gov): know what each unit of service costs you before you set a price.
  3. Internal Revenue Service, Publication 334, Tax Guide for Small Business: income from prepaid sessions and the expenses that reduce it are reported on Schedule C.
  4. National Association of Attorneys General (naag.org): each state attorney general enforces consumer protection law on prepaid services, cancellations and refunds, and the rules differ by state.

The worked example is made up. The page does arithmetic on the rate, discounts and costs you enter; it is not tax or legal advice. Your figures stay in this browser. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.