Welcome to the booming world of specialised private education for the super-rich where earnings for tutoring, even when moonlighting, now dwarf conventional salaries.a salary seven times higher than that of the average building designer for an “excellent young professional architect to provide academic support and mentorship to an ambitious architecture student preparing to commence her university studies”.
It also illustrates a new frontier in achieving a competitive advantage in life: buying tutors to boost professional connections. $180,000 a year and a private villa to tutor three children in French, reading and maths in Djibouti. Caller said he has 40 tutors working around the world including one earning £320,000 a year as a back-up for an A-level student at a London public school, a professional golfer paying $280,000 for one tutor to homeschool children and another in the UK earning £300,000, an apartment, car and flights to help a student who failed their first year at Cambridge University get back on their course.