Fees Rates & Cost
Teacher Vacations
My current policy regarding my own vacation/travel and tuition is that I charge the same monthly rate all year (I charge for 4 weeks each month). In this way, I’ve built 4 weeks of vacation into the system without my monthly salary changing. This has…
Discontinuation Policies
A couple of years ago, I think, I put into place two related policies after getting ideas from the forums. 30-days written notice required to discontinue with forfeiture of any unpaid tuition, and pre-payment upon enrollment of 1st and last months of tuition. Combined, these…
Teaching Space Percentage
I am newish to an area and looking for places to teach within a few miles from my home. A local dance studio has an additional room adequate for group teaching with a piano and has offered to let me use it on certain days…
Question on Room Rental Fees
I’ve been talking to a community center about using their room, and their recreation director wants to take about 1/3 of my fee for their charge. (So – If I charge $32, they would take about $12-13, and I would also give $2 back to Simply…
Discussing Fees Initially
I started doing quite a bit of work on Facebook to advertise myself and have had a great response from people who have taken my early childhood classes. However, they always want to immediately know what my fees are; I have run into the same…
Multiple family member discounts (more than 2 people)
I have been contacted by a family that’s interested in having all four of its family members take lessons from me (2 kids and 2 parents). I usually offer a 10% discount for multiple family members, and I know about one teacher’s policy of offering…
Free lessons for the financially challenged?
Greetings – wondering if anybody offers “Free” lessons at any time? I have been grateful for Robin Keehn’s idea of a Tuition Credit Application which I use. However I currently have a student in his 3rd year of lessons who is from a one parent…
Annual payment
I had a parent ask me about making one annual payment instead of paying monthly. This particular parent has a history of paying late (even with what I consider ‘pleasant’ reminders) so her request took me a little by surprise. While the vision of a…
Tuition Rebates
I’ve had some interesting conversations with a number of teachers over the past several months regarding what to charge for tuition. Of course, the amount we charge varies with what part of the country and which country you live in, but there are some things…
Teaching Level 8
I believe someone was mentioning Level 8 in some prior comments, so I thought I would add my 2 cents about teaching this level. Level 8 is always very interesting to teach! I had a student just this week tell me that she was going…