Verified on Oct 13, 2026
You teach live video classes to kids on your own subject. You set the price. Outschool keeps 30% and you keep 70%. A background check is required.
You teach live video classes to children. Learners are aged 1 to 18.
You choose the subject. You write the class listing. You set the price and the class size. Outschool reviews every listing before it goes up.
Classes run on Zoom. Outschool gives you the Zoom account, so you do not buy one.
Outschool keeps 30% of the class price. You keep 70%.
Your pay for one section is simple arithmetic. Take the class price. Times the number of learners. Times 0.7.
Outschool suggests a price of $18-21 per learner for each hour of class time. So one learner in a one hour class pays you about $13-15.
That number alone means nothing. Six learners in that same hour pay you about $76-88. The class size is the whole game, and filling a class is the hard part.
Outschool’s press release of Sept. 10, 2026 says “averaging four students per teacher”. It does not say which classes or teachers that covers. It is not a number for new teachers, and we found no page that gives one. So we do not use it as a pay example.
We found no hourly wage for teachers on the pages we read. We read 13 help articles. We searched all 110 teacher library posts by keyword. Searching is not reading. We read about 11 of them in the parts that matter. We read the public teach page and one press release. We also read the press and blog title lists. One help article says your earnings depend on what your classes cost. So we will not print a wage.
We did not read some places. They are the teacher pages you see after you log in. They are also the apply pages that Outschool’s site settings block. We did not read older press releases or the teacher Slack and Facebook groups. We could not open the Winter 2023 Educator Outlook report. It gave a not-found error. Outschool may share a wage in one of these places.
It does give class prices. For one-on-one tutoring, most sign-ups in a 2023 Outschool study were for classes priced at $45-70 an hour. Math and English tutoring must cost at least $30 an hour. A price is not a wage. Your pay is still the price, times learners, times 0.7.
Parents also pay a Marketplace Fee on top of the class price. Outschool’s policy says that fee is left out of the 30% fee. It also says the fee is not part of a “Teacher Payment”.
Here is what the arithmetic leaves out. Writing the listing takes time. So does answering parents. So does preparing. None of that is paid.
Today you get paid through PayPal in US dollars, wherever you live. Outschool is moving to Stripe. Then teachers outside the US will be paid in their own money.
Outschool’s own pages disagree about when. One says 7 to 8 days after a class paid up front starts. Another says 7 to 10 days. A third says 7 to 13 days. A fourth says one week after the class starts. We print all four, because we cannot tell you which is right. Plan for the longest one.
Weekly and tutoring classes are paid on Sundays. Outschool says that changes with Stripe. Weekly classes will be paid 7 days after the first meeting of the week. The day of the week may change.
This fits you if you know a subject well and like children.
You do not need a teaching degree, a licence or any credential. One Outschool press release does call its teachers “credentialed educators”.
It fits if you cannot leave the house. It is all done at a computer.
It fits if you want to choose your own hours. There is no minimum and no maximum number of teaching hours.
Skip this if you do not live in one of the eight countries Outschool allows. Living in a US territory such as Puerto Rico or Guam does not count.
Skip it if you will not pass or renew a background check. It is required, and it must be redone every year or your account is suspended.
Skip it if you have no national ID number, because the check needs one.
Skip it if your written and spoken English is not strong. Outschool asks for a good command of both.
Skip it if you need money this month. First you are approved, then you write a listing, then it is reviewed. Then you fill the class and teach it. Then you wait a week or more to be paid.
Skip it if you want to teach adults. This platform is for children only.
Before you pay anyone: Outschool pays for your background check. Nobody should ask you for money to teach there.
Day 1. Apply, and start the identity and background check the same day.
Day 2. Pick one subject you could teach with no preparation at all. That is your first class, not the ambitious one.
Day 3. Write the listing. Say plainly what a child will do in the hour.
Day 4. Test your setup. Run Zoom, check your microphone, and check your internet speed against the 3 Mbps floor.
Day 5. Do the arithmetic before you publish. Price times learners times 0.7. Decide the smallest number of learners that makes the hour worth teaching.
Then wait. Approval, listing review and the first class all take days or longer.
In our view, sound matters most. Children need to hear you clearly.
You are not paid for the work around the class. Listing, preparing and answering parents are all unpaid.
An empty class pays nothing. You carry the risk of filling it, not Outschool.
Outschool keeps 30% of every class price.
If a parent gets a refund after you are paid, you send your 70% back by PayPal. Under Stripe, Outschool will send you a bill instead.
The payout wait is long, and Outschool’s own pages disagree on how long.
Outschool is moving payouts from PayPal to Stripe. PayPal is still in use for now, and the timing is tentative. We found no end date on the pages we read. We did not read teacher logins or emails, or the teacher Slack and Facebook groups. If PayPal ends before you set up Stripe, Outschool holds your pay until you do.
Two Outschool pages do not match on Stripe. The help article says setup is not yet open to all teachers, and some may see it. A teacher library notice shown as 02 Jun 26 says setup has not started yet. We cannot tell you which is right.
We do not know if Outschool is taking new teachers now. No page we read says it is open or closed. One page says it gets many applications. A teacher who is turned down may apply up to 3 times in all.
The background check has to be renewed every year, inside a one month window.
Do I need a teaching degree? No. Outschool says no formal teaching credentials are required.
How much will I make an hour? We found no hourly wage on the Outschool pages we read, so we cannot say. Your pay is the price you set, times learners, times 0.7.
Who pays for the background check? Outschool does, in every region.
Can I teach from anywhere? No. You must be a full-time resident of one of eight countries. US territories are excluded.
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