# What should I charge for small group lessons?

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**Created:** [September 8, 2012, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-charge-for-small-group-lessons/634126 "2012-09-08T21:26:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![PookahMacPhellimey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pookahmacphellimey/32/3175_2.png) [@PookahMacPhellimey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PookahMacPhellimey)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2012, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-charge-for-small-group-lessons/634126/1 "2012-09-08T21:26:24Z")

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I offer one-to-one English lessons for 20 euros an hour. Some prospective students are organizing themselves into small groups. I am trying to work out what to charge them. The idea is that the students pay less per person, but I end up earning a bit more for doing the group than I would for an individual lesson. For the moment I don’t expect any groups to be larger than four people. Any ideas what I should charge a group of two, a group of three and a group of four?

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**Author:** ![lazybratsche](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ba8739/32.png) [@lazybratsche](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lazybratsche)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2012, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-i-charge-for-small-group-lessons/634126/2 "2012-09-08T21:33:47Z")

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Totally off the top of my head, I’d just work it out so you end up with 30/hour. That seems like a nice bump in your own pay, and the students get a substantial discount.

Or, just say that the group rate is 12/student. You get a little extra with two students, or a lot extra with four or five. That’d make sense if you spend any significant amount of time, say, answering questions over email.