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    Tutors

    Instruct individual students or small groups of students in academic subjects to support formal class instruction or to prepare students for standardized or admissions tests.

    Median pay
    $43,350
    Growth
    -0.2%
    Little or no change
    Openings a year
    34,200
    Typical education
    Some college

    Data verified Nov 2026 · CollegesRef 2026–27 edition

    Source: BLS 2025 wages · 2025–35 projections

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    Annual pay range

    Lowest 10% earn less than
    $29,430
    Median
    $43,350
    Highest 10% earn more than
    $75,990
    National wages for all workers in this occupation. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025.

    175,070 people work in this occupation.

    What tutors do

    Job Zone 3: Medium preparation

    Instruct individual students or small groups of students in academic subjects to support formal class instruction or to prepare students for standardized or admissions tests.

    Usually vocational training, an associate degree or related experience.

    Interest profile

    Realistic (R)
    21 / 100
    Investigative (I)
    31 / 100
    Artistic (A)
    35 / 100
    Social (S) · strongest
    96 / 100
    Enterprising (E)
    12 / 100
    Conventional (C)
    39 / 100
    How strongly each interest area describes the work, from O*NET (scores rescaled to 0–100). The interest code lists the strongest areas in order.

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    What you'd do

    Training and Teaching Others
    93
    Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships
    89
    Coaching and Developing Others
    87
    Making Decisions and Solving Problems
    80
    Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates
    79
    Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others
    78
    Thinking Creatively
    76
    Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge
    75
    Getting Information
    72
    Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work
    71
    Work activities rated by importance for this occupation, O*NET (0–100).

    Skills and strengths

    Skills

    • Instructing
    • Reading Comprehension
    • Active Listening
    • Learning Strategies
    • Speaking
    • Critical Thinking
    • Social Perceptiveness
    • Active Learning
    • Complex Problem Solving
    • Writing

    Knowledge

    • Customer and Personal Service
    • English Language
    • Education and Training
    • Mathematics
    • Computers and Electronics
    • Psychology
    • Administrative
    • Chemistry
    • Sociology and Anthropology
    • Biology

    Abilities

    • Oral Comprehension
    • Oral Expression
    • Speech Clarity
    • Written Comprehension
    • Written Expression
    • Speech Recognition
    • Deductive Reasoning
    • Fluency of Ideas
    • Inductive Reasoning
    • Near Vision

    Work styles

    • Dependability
    • Cooperation
    • Optimism
    • Empathy
    • Social Orientation
    • Integrity
    • Sincerity
    • Self-Control
    • Attention to Detail
    • Perseverance

    Also called

    Academic Coach · Academic Guidance Specialist · Academic Mentor · Academic Teacher · Academic Tutor · Accounting Tutor · ACT Instructor (American College Testing Instructor) · ACT Tutor (American College Test Tutor) · After School Tutor · Algebra Tutor

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    Certifications, licenses and pay by state

    What tutors may need beyond a degree, where a license is required, and what the work pays in each state.

    Certifications

    Core certifications employers recognise for this work.

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    Licenses by state

    4 states list a license for this work. Open your state for the license and the agency that issues it.

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    Data from CareerOneStop, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor (Employment and Training Administration, with the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development). Retrieved November 6, 2026.

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    Sources and attribution

    Every figure on this page comes from these public datasets. Missing values are shown as not reported, never estimated.

    O*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license. CollegesRef has modified all or some of this information.

    Data from CareerOneStop, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor (Employment and Training Administration, with the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development). Retrieved November 6, 2026.

    Page data updated November 5, 2026.