Earnings
There's no hourly rate here and no pay grade. You bid your own number on every request, keep up to 92% of it, and withdraw whenever you like. Below: our real earnings figures, a calculator to model your own month, the four kinds of work you can bid on, and the honest limits.
Real tutors on the platform. Our busiest earn $8,000–$10,000 a month.
Our real numbers
Three figures straight from Our Easy Game — the floor, what full-time work pays, and the single best month anyone has had. Everything further down this page is arithmetic built on top of them.
The smallest job on the platform. Take one a month around your degree or a day job and that's what it pays — no targets, no minimum hours.
Real figureWhat our full-time tutors earn. Not a first week and not a sign-up bonus — it's what the work pays once you're established and bidding every day.
Real figureOur top earner's best month so far. One tutor, thirty days. We're showing it because it really happened — not because it's typical.
Real figureThose are the ends of the range, and most tutors sit between them. Where you land is mostly a question of how many requests you bid on and how well you price them — which is what the calculator below is for.
Model your month
Move the sliders and the arithmetic follows: your price, times the jobs you take, minus the service fee. The sliders start at $50 — our real floor — but the numbers you put in are the ones that matter, not our starting positions. Change them to whatever you'd actually charge.
Very few tutors sustain this month after month — read it as an upper bound, not a target.
Start your applicationIllustrative. Your actual earnings depend on which bids you win, the prices you set and how much work you take on. Nothing here is a guarantee of income.
What work pays
Four kinds of request come through the app, and they're worth very different amounts. We don't publish an average price per task, because there isn't one: the student posts a budget, you bid your own number against it, and the two of you settle it in chat. The one hard floor we can give you is that the smallest job on the platform pays about $50.
One problem, answered fast. The least money per job, but the quickest way to build a rating when you're new — and where that $50 floor sits.
The highest-volume category on the platform and most tutors' bread and butter. If you want predictable work every week, this is it.
Pays better than homework for the same subject, and fewer tutors bid because the window is tight. Clustered around midterms and finals.
The biggest single payouts on the platform, on one agreed price and one delivery. Where subject specialists make the most money.
The arithmetic
A tutor earning $8,000–$10,000 a month isn't doing anything exotic — it's price times volume, minus the fee. Here is the same month reached three different ways, all at the 8% streak fee. Pick whichever shape fits the work you want.
The $8,000–$10,000 total is real and comes from our own full-time tutors. The three splits above are just the arithmetic that gets you there — nobody is assigned a workload here, and the prices are always yours to set. Month one will look nothing like this; see below for how the first few weeks actually differ.
Read this before your first bid
We'd rather tell you than let you learn it the expensive way: your first jobs are usually won on price, and your income grows from students coming back.
A student choosing between bids has nothing to go on but the number and your rating — and at the start you don't have a rating. The lowest bid usually wins the first job.
Treat your first handful of bids as buying a track record, not as your real rate.
Once someone has worked with you and it went well, they stop shopping around. Repeat students request you directly, and that's where your price goes up.
A returning student is also far less price-sensitive than a first-time one.
With completed jobs and a strong completion rate behind you, you stop being the cheapest option and start being the safe one. That's when you can bid at the top of a range and still win.
The $8,000–$10,000 figure and the three routes above describe what the work pays once you have a track record. Your first weeks will realistically sit closer to the $50 end, because you'll be bidding competitively to land those first students.
So don't judge the platform on your first three bids. The tutors earning well here are the ones who got through that phase and built a base of students who ask for them by name — and who then raised their prices.
The fee
One percentage, taken only from work you win and complete. Bidding, chatting and negotiating are always free, however many requests you go for.
Your rate on day one. On a $250 job you keep $225.
A few days into a bid streak. The app shows your current rate on the home screen at all times.
The best rate available. On that same $250 job you keep $230.
Before you submit any bid, the app tells you the exact figure that will land in your balance. You never do this arithmetic yourself.
No listing fees, no subscription, no per-bid charge, no commission on messages, and no withdrawal fee on standard payouts.
There's no monthly cut-off and no pay run to wait for. A job approved this morning can be in your bank this week.
Getting paid
Our tutors work from all over the world, so payouts aren't locked to one rail. Pick whatever actually works in your country.
Earning more
Students choose between bids, and they can see both. A tutor at ★4.9 with 98% completion wins jobs at prices a new tutor can't ask for yet.
Picking three subjects you're genuinely strong in beats claiming twelve. Match quality goes up, your win rate goes up, and the guarantee stops being a risk.
Requests with one or two bids are far easier to win than ones with eight. Early on, pairing that with a competitive price is how you land your first students.
Once they're returning to you, the price follows your reputation upward.
The same hour spent on a thesis chapter pays several times what it pays on rapid Q&A. Build the record that lets you bid on project work.
Exam windows and same-day requests get fewer bids because most tutors avoid them. If you can deliver reliably, that's where the margin is.
Bidding consistently drops your fee from 10% to 8%. On $2,000 a month that's an extra $40 for doing nothing differently.
Nothing here is guaranteed income. You're paid per job you win, and if you bid on nothing you earn nothing. There's no retainer and no base.
A missed grade guarantee means no payment for that task. We promise students a minimum of 80+; if it isn't met they're refunded in full and the tutor isn't paid. That's the one real downside risk in the model, and it's why we'd rather you bid narrowly and well.
Volume varies by subject. Mathematics, statistics, computer science and physics see steady demand all year. Narrower subjects are quieter, and everything peaks around midterms and finals.
Questions
Because new tutors compete mainly on price. A student picking between bids can only see the number and your rating, and at the start you don't have one — so the lowest bid usually wins.
That phase is short. Once a student has worked with you they come back and request you directly, and repeat work is where your rate climbs. Judge your earnings after your first month, not your first three bids.
The student's payment is held in escrow from the moment the job is agreed. On approval it moves into your available balance, minus the service fee. From there you withdraw whenever you like — 1–2 business days free, or instantly for 1.5%.
Whenever you like — there's no payroll cycle and no monthly cut-off. Approved money sits in your balance until you take it out.
Yes — if the scope turns out bigger than the brief suggested, you send a revised offer in chat and the student accepts or declines before work starts. The app always shows your net on the new figure.
Nothing. No subscription, no listing fee, no charge per bid. The service fee applies only to work you win and complete.
The money is already in escrow, so it isn't at risk. There's no automatic release, so nudge them in chat and contact support — we chase the approval and settle it from there.
No. You're an independent tutor choosing your own work and setting your own prices, so you're responsible for any tax that applies where you live.
Apply with your details, CV and transcripts. We review within a week, and you can start bidding on matched requests the same day you're approved.
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