Tutor salary
What a tutor actually earns, from 183 live job postings blended with the official US OEWS (Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics) wage anchor. Pick a market for its median and range, then read the seniority split, the trend, and the country comparison below. Updated 2026-09-09.
Switch the market above to see tutor pay in the 3 countries our sources cover, each with its own cost of living. The trend, seniority, and state detail below are United States data, where the official record runs deepest.
What the number means
A tutor earns a blended US median near 45,368 dollars, with the typical middle running from 36,240 dollars to 56,537 dollars. The official OEWS median is 40,090 dollars, under the posted figure, because the advertised roles skew senior or well-funded. The official trend has moved up about 10 percent since 2021. Demand is rated high, and 9% of postings are fully remote. The nearest adjacent move on our skill graph is professor / lecturer, at 72 percent coverage; the instrument maps the rest.
Open tutor roles
Live openings tagged to this occupation, from company career pages and remote boards. Apply at the source.
Persian Tutor | Flexible Job (Germany) | €20–€40/hr at NachhilfeunterrichtGermany · Remote1d agoApply- Singing Tutor | Flexible Job (Germany) | €20–€40/hr at NachhilfeunterrichtGermany · Remote1d agoApply
- B2 English Tutor - Part Time at NachhilfeunterrichtAustria · Remote3d agoApply
Academic Coach at Strategic Education, Inc.United States · Remote4d agoApply
Boarding House Tutor Job Details | Nord Anglia Education at Nord Anglia EducationGeneva, Geneva, Switzerland6d agoApply
Tutor(a) académico de academia (Lima) at ACADEMIA VONEXLima1w agoApply
By country
- United Kingdom$47,254$53,959$72,055
- United States$36,240$45,368$56,537
- Canada$27,070$29,702$40,342
Switzerland · official wage bands
median CHF 9'697/month
Swiss postings do not state pay, so these are not posted salaries: they are the federal wage survey (Lohnstrukturerhebung 2024) for the ISCO group 23 Lehrkräfte: standardized gross monthly, full-time, 13th salary included pro rata. The band covers the whole occupation group, which is coarser than this occupation alone.
Annual ≈ CHF 116'364 at the median. Source: Bundesamt für Statistik, LSE 2024.
Roles that pay more, that these skills already reach
Median pay from each destination’s own postings, with the readiness a tutor profile already covers.
- 43 open instructional designer roles$82,517 median · +$37,149 · 14% readiness
- 173 open professor / lecturer roles$80,670 median · +$35,302 · 72% readiness
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Related salaries
- Professor / Lecturer salary$80,670 median
- Instructional Designer salary$82,517 median
Quick answers
How much does a tutor make?
The blended US median is about 45,368 dollars, with a typical range from 36,240 dollars to 56,537 dollars, against an official OEWS median of 40,090 dollars.
Is tutor a good career in 2026?
Demand for the role is rated high in our July 2026 corpus, with 9% of postings fully remote. The pay is shown above by seniority and by country.
What can a tutor move into?
The nearest adjacent role on our skill graph is professor / lecturer, at 72 percent skill coverage. Run the instrument for the full set of reachable moves.
Method: bands are the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles of live US postings with stated pay, shrunk toward the official OEWS anchor by sample size (the “blended” figure). Trend is the OEWS annual median for SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code 25-3041. Unemployment is the 2025 BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) CPS (Current Population Survey) annual-average rate for “Tutors.” Live corpus 183 observations, 2026-09-09. Definitions in the glossary.