I usually lurk in the shadows here, but have need of some advice.
First a little about me: I have played tin whistle for over 20 years; I play whistle and flute currently with two bands. I lead a slow session every week.
Now…I’ve been asked to teach an eight week series on tin whistle for adults.
I just don’t know what charge. I had initially thought that $100 per person for the course was fair. That breaks down to $12.50 per person per week. But now I am not so sure. A friend thought maybe $8/week per person, but that seems a bit low…
So…if you’ve ever taught a class, what did you charge? or what do you think is a fair price?
How much do you care about the money? If the income doesn’t make a big difference to you, charge on the low side and make the class as accessible as possible.
That said, $15/hour is not unreasonable for a group music class.
$15 a class sound ok to me. Perhaps you can give the first class free. I’d charge by the class because a lot of people show up for stuff and drop out and then you’d have to mess around with refunds which would be a pain.
I’ve thought it would be rewarding to teach a class (one day way in the future should I ever actually know how to play the instrument well enough) but I wonder what it would do to my hearing to teach the whistle.
You can make it progressive - by discussing it with every of your pupils, and setting a price individually (15 bucks for student isn´t 15 bucks for manager).
Here, with musical instruments, it´s typical to take…15-20$ I guess…but things here (Czech republic) are cheaper in US too. For example, Ireland has three times bigger payments, but three times bigger costs (most of them). So, if our payments for music were transferred to US, I guess it would be somewhere around 30-40 per lesson (about 2 hours).
