IB and IGCSE home tuition jobs: teach in person, keep 100% from month two

Most platforms take a percentage of every class you ever teach. We do not, for home tuition. The first month with each new student is split 50-50 — that is our one-time fee for finding the family, arranging the demo and setting up the match — and from the second month we take nothing at all, for as long as the engagement lasts.

Over a long engagement that arithmetic becomes substantial. A student you teach for two years pays you roughly 98% of everything they are billed. Six months works out around 92%. That is the deliberate trade: we only make money from home tuition by introducing you to new students, so the only way we stay useful to you is to keep doing it.

What home tuition costs you is travel, and that is the part we try hardest to get right. You list the specific areas, sectors or neighbourhoods you can genuinely reach, and we only send you requests inside them. You are never penalised for declining a location, and you never have to explain why.

• First month 50-50, then 100% yours — per student, not per platform
• You define your travel zones and can change them whenever you like
• We invoice and collect from the family; you never ask for money
• No joining fee, no subscription, no exclusivity

You set your own monthly or per-class fee and we publish it unchanged. The family sees it before they book the demo, so there is no negotiation after you have taught. What we take is fixed and depends only on how long you keep teaching that student.

The split is per student. Each new student you take on has their own first month at 50-50, so a tutor adding a student every month will always have one engagement in its first month. That is the cost of growth, and it falls away for every student who stays.

If a student stops partway through the first month, the 50-50 split applies only to the fees actually paid for classes that took place. You are never billed against work you did not do.

• Two subjects for the same student is one engagement at your combined fee
• Siblings in the same house are separate students, each with their own first month
• Classes you cancel are not billed to the family, so they are not paid
• Give 24 hours' notice to reschedule; reliability is what keeps a family with you

A large share of IB and IGCSE families in Indian cities live in gated societies, apartment complexes or condominium developments, and each has its own visitor routine. Some need the resident to approve you in an app before you reach the gate. Some issue a repeat-visitor pass once they have seen your ID. Some require an entry in a register and a phone call to the flat every single visit.

None of this is difficult, but it adds between five and fifteen minutes to a first visit and it is worth planning for. Arrange the entry method with the parent before the demo class rather than standing at a gate while someone tries to reach them. For a recurring slot, ask in the first week whether a long-term visitor pass is possible — it removes the single most common cause of starting late.

Carry the photo ID you verified with us. Security will often ask for it, and the name on it matching the name the resident approved is what gets you through without a phone call.

• Confirm the gate or app entry method with the parent before the first visit
• Ask about a long-term visitor pass in your first week on a recurring slot
• Carry the same photo ID you verified with us — names must match
• Build 10 minutes of buffer into a first visit to a new society

The tutors who earn most from home tuition are not the ones charging the highest rate. They are the ones with a geographically tight timetable and students who stay for terms rather than weeks, because every student past their first month is paying them in full.

Two patterns work. The first is clustering: take students in two or three adjacent areas and schedule them back to back, so one journey covers two or three paid hours. The second is anchoring: hold weekend mornings for home students in your nearest zone and keep weekday evenings for the shortest journey you have.

A lot of our home tutors also take online students to fill the gaps that travel creates — a home student at 5pm and an online student at 8pm, with no second journey. The split is applied per class by mode, so you always know what you are keeping, and it hedges you against one home student stopping.