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What one lesson has to be priced at
Work backwards from the income you need to the rate a single lesson slot has to carry, with tax and studio costs counted rather than assumed away.
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Calculators for private music teachers
Two arithmetic problems come up in every studio, one about the rate you charge and one about the practice a date demands, and both are easier to settle with numbers than with instinct.
Teaching rates and practice plans both get set by feel, and both go wrong in the same direction. A rate gets set by looking at what the teacher across town charges, without counting the unpaid planning hours, the tuner, the recital hall deposit or both halves of self employment tax. A practice plan gets set by hoping the student finds the time, without ever multiplying pieces by the minutes each one actually needs.
These two calculators do that arithmetic in the open. They are free, they need no account, and nothing you type is stored. Use the first before you announce fall tuition and the second when you set a recital or exam date, then write the week that follows from it.
Calculator
How much practice does this date actually require
Count the repertoire, divide it by the weeks left and the days a student really practices, and the plan either fits the week or it does not.
Working document
The weekly practice assignment sheet you can fill in tonight
A single page you complete in the last two minutes of a lesson that tells a student and a parent exactly what to do on each of the next six days.
Why the studio calculators are open to every teacher
Private music teachers already do this arithmetic, usually in August on the back page of a lesson binder. You add up the twice yearly tuning, the method books bought ahead, liability insurance and the recital hall deposit, guess how many teaching weeks survive the winter break and the summer slowdown, and try to land on a lesson rate you can say out loud to a parent without flinching. The practice side gets the same treatment: three pieces, an exam technique list and eight weeks, worked out in your head between students. None of that should cost anyone an email address.
So both calculators sit here open, with no sign up and nothing typed into them stored. Run the rate tool before you post fall tuition and the practice planner the day you pick a recital or exam date, and the answers are useful even if you never write a single assignment in PracticeSheet. A teacher who can tell a family that this program needs fifty minutes on four days, or who can explain what a 45 minute slot has to carry once planning time and self employment tax are counted, is holding something worth having whatever software the studio runs on.
You have the numbers. Now the teaching week.
A rate you can defend and an honest practice total are worth something the moment you write them down, and worth more when families can see the work behind them. PracticeSheet turns that weekly minute figure into named assignment lines a student ticks off and a parent reads without installing anything. Ask for a demo and we will set it up around one student on your current roster.