Verified on Sep 2, 2026
You teach live video classes to children on your own subject. You set the price. Outschool keeps 30% and you keep 70%. No teaching degree is needed, but a background check is.
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.
That number alone means nothing. Six learners in that same hour pay you about $76. The class size is the whole game, and filling a class is the hard part.
Outschool publishes no hourly wage anywhere on its site. The only dollar figure it publishes is that recommended price. So we will not print an hourly figure either.
Here is what the arithmetic leaves out. Writing the listing takes time. So does answering parents. So does preparing. None of that is paid.
You get paid through PayPal in US dollars, wherever you live.
Outschool’s own pages disagree about when. One says 7 to 13 days after the class starts. Another says 7 to 10 days for fixed-length classes. We print both, because we cannot tell you which is right. Plan for the longer one.
Weekly and tutoring classes are paid on Sundays.
This fits you if you know a subject well and like children.
You do not need a teaching degree, a licence or any credential. That is unusual, and it is the door for a lot of people.
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 nine 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 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 background check the same day. It is the slowest part.
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, not hours.
Children hear you better than they see you, so sound matters most.
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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.
The payout wait is long, and Outschool’s own pages disagree on how long.
Outschool is moving payouts from PayPal to Stripe, with no published finish date.
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? Outschool does not publish that, so nobody honestly can. 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 nine countries. US territories are excluded.
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