What should be optional in a tutoring proposal?

In this template: Exam paper marking ($25.00 USD per paper), Holiday revision course ($240.00 USD). Optional lines sit next to the base price with a switch, so clients choose them without a follow-up email.

How much to charge for tutoring

Updated September 19, 2026. Example prices in US dollars from the tutoring proposal template.

Short answer: Price tutoring as one fixed line (one-to-one sessions at $55.00 USD) with a starting total of $660.00 USD, then 2 optional lines (exam paper marking, holiday revision course) the client can switch on, and quantities the client sets within your limits. Set your own numbers; the structure is what gets accepted.

A worked example for tutors: the pricing lines from our tutoring proposal, what is fixed, what the client can switch on, and how to present it so the total gets accepted rather than negotiated.

The example pricing

Line	Example price	How it is sold
One-to-one sessionsOne hour, in person or online	$55.00 USD per session	IncludedClient picks 6 to 30
Exam paper markingPast papers marked between sessions, per paper	$25.00 USD per paper	Optional, off by defaultClient picks 0 to 12
Holiday revision courseThree mornings in the break before exams	$240.00 USD	Optional, off by default

Starting total with the defaults on: $660.00 USD, before the client chooses among 2 optional lines, with 2 quantities the client sets within your limits. Example prices in US dollars; the template works in 16 currencies and every number is yours to change.

How to present it

Personal services are chosen on feel. A warm opening paragraph and a clear list of what the day, the term or the month includes do more than a discount ever will.

Price the package, then the countable extras: guests, sessions, hours, dishes. A client who moves a quantity and sees the total settle has already decided.

Put the cancellation and rescheduling terms on the same page as the price, in plain words. Signed together, they are far easier to hold to later.

Questions people ask

How much should I charge for tutoring?: Price tutoring as one fixed line (one-to-one sessions at $55.00 USD) with a starting total of $660.00 USD, then 2 optional lines (exam paper marking, holiday revision course) the client can switch on, and quantities the client sets within your limits. Set your own numbers; the structure is what gets accepted.
What should be optional in a tutoring proposal?: In this template: Exam paper marking ($25.00 USD per paper), Holiday revision course ($240.00 USD). Optional lines sit next to the base price with a switch, so clients choose them without a follow-up email.
How do I present tutoring pricing so it gets accepted?: Personal services are chosen on feel. A warm opening paragraph and a clear list of what the day, the term or the month includes do more than a discount ever will.

Why this structure gets accepted

One fixed line the client can say yes to. One-to-one sessions is priced as a whole, so the conversation is about the result, not the hours.
Options on the page, not in follow-up emails. Exam paper marking, Holiday revision course sit next to the base price with a switch. People choose what they can see.
The total moves as they choose. On a Quote and Sign page the client toggles lines and sets quantities, watches the total update, and signs with their name. What they chose becomes part of the signed record.

Put it in front of a client

Open this pricing as a real proposal, change the words and numbers, and send the link. Your client reads it on their phone, adjusts the options, and accepts with one tap. Both of you get the signed PDF.

Try it in the editor, no account See the tutoring proposal template