Tuition adjustments
Found in: Fees Rates & Cost
Emily C., California
How often do you adjust your rates, and by how much each time?
Missy M., Iowa
I’ve been teaching SM for almost 10 years. Instead of raising my tuition, I take more time off each year. It even allows me to offer a small “discount” to families who will enroll in an automatic bill-pay option for tuition each month. Everyone feels like they are getting a good deal and my rate per lesson stays right in track with what other local teachers charge.
Joy O., Alabama
After I started with a handful of students, I raised my rates by $5 per month when I did a push to have more students. I haven’t changed in about a year. I teach 45 weeks. Off two weeks at Christmas, one for Thanksgiving (US), one for spring break, one for Fourth of July (US), and two others “at my discretion”.
Heidi M., Canada
I have not changed my rates since I started teaching almost two years ago, but am about to increase my private lesson rate by 10%, but not the shared lesson rate as I want it to be affordable. So if anyone cannot afford the private rate, they can choose to join a small group which is what I want. I find generally most people do best in groups.