IB and IGCSE online tutor jobs: teach from anywhere, keep 70%

IB and IGCSE families are not distributed like a local tuition market. An international school in one city may have a single Physics HL teacher and forty students; the tutor who can genuinely teach that course might live two thousand kilometres away. Online is how that gap gets closed, and it is why the majority of what we place is remote.

For you, the practical consequence is that your reach is no longer limited by what you can drive to. A Maths AA HL specialist can fill a timetable from Dubai, Singapore, London and three Indian cities in the same week. That is not possible in home tuition at any rate.

The commercial terms are simpler too. Online is a flat 70/30 split in your favour from the first class to the last — there is no reduced first month the way there is with home tuition. For short engagements, which are common in Diploma work, that makes online meaningfully better paid.

• Flat 70% to you, every month, with no first-month discount
• Students across India, the UAE, the UK, Singapore and Southeast Asia
• You publish the hours you are available in your own time zone
• No joining fee, no subscription, no exclusivity

You set your fee per class or per month and we publish it unchanged; the family sees it before booking the demo. Our 30% platform fee covers finding and matching students, arranging the demo, collecting fees from the family, chasing late payment, scheduling support, and finding you a replacement student if one stops.

The useful comparison is against home tuition, because the two splits reward different engagement lengths. Home tuition takes half of your first month and then nothing, so it wins decisively on long engagements. Online takes a steady 30% forever, so it wins on short ones. The crossover sits at around six weeks.

That matters because a lot of IB Diploma work is short by nature — four weeks of intensive revision before a session, six weeks of internal-assessment supervision, a predicted-grade push with a deadline attached. For those, online is the better-paid choice as well as the more practical one.

• ₹1,200 a class × 12 classes = ₹14,400, of which ₹10,080 is yours
• ₹1,800 an HL class × 10 classes = ₹18,000, of which ₹12,600 is yours
• No travel means an evening can hold three paid classes instead of one
• Classes you cancel are not billed to the family, so they are not paid

Your available hours decide which markets you can serve, and the differences are large enough to be worth planning around. IB and IGCSE tutoring happens after school, so the slots that matter are roughly 4pm to 9pm in the student's local time, plus weekend mornings.

From India, Gulf students are the easiest overlap: the UAE is an hour and a half behind, so a Dubai student's 5pm after-school slot is 6.30pm for you. UK students are four and a half hours behind in winter, which puts their after-school window into your late evening. Singapore and Hong Kong are two and a half hours ahead, so their evening slots fall in your afternoon.

The practical consequence is that a tutor who can teach in the late evening has access to UK and European families that an early-evening-only tutor does not, and a tutor free in the afternoon can take Southeast Asian students nobody else is covering. If your timetable is flexible, publishing a wider window is the single most effective way to get matched more often.

• Gulf families are the easiest overlap from India — a 1.5 hour shift
• Afternoon availability opens Singapore and Hong Kong, where supply is thin
• Late-evening availability opens the UK and Europe at premium rates
• Publish real hours you will keep — a missed slot across time zones is hard to re-book

Because there is no travel, an online timetable can be packed in a way a home one cannot — three classes in an evening instead of one, with ten minutes between them rather than forty. That is the main reason online tutors with the same hourly rate often out-earn home tutors on the same hours.

What fills it fastest, in the order that actually matters: listing more than one subject, listing both IB and IGCSE where you can teach both, publishing a wider availability window, and being honest about your level so demos convert. Tutors who do all four get matched several times more often than single-subject tutors with two narrow evening slots.

It is also worth knowing the seasonal shape. Diploma work peaks January to April before the May session and again in October and November for the November session. IGCSE peaks January to May. The quiet stretch for everyone is June to August, which is when bridging work — IGCSE students stepping up into the Diploma, and retake candidates — keeps a timetable alive.

• No travel means three paid classes in an evening instead of one
• Listing both IB and IGCSE roughly doubles the requests you see
• A wider published window matters more than a lower fee
• June to August is quiet — bridging and retake students fill it