Weekly hours fluctuate dramatically, so HLC only provides a supplementary source of income. The owners of my franchise do not compensate employees very well. You start at a mere 14$/hour (note that they require a university degree for employment) while owners/management charge the customers 45-50$ per hour for tutoring; meanwhile, you do all the work while, often, the owners don't even bother to come in.
The owners and management have no shame. They will nickel and dime you, and the customer, at every opportunity. If you accidentally go over time on your tutoring session, if you need to clean up or fill out paperwork after your prescribed time has ended, they will refuse to pay you (even though you were carrying out required job duties). I have never finished on time-- given the amount of paperwork and preparation necessary to fulfill your duties. Everyday I have worked, I've had to give 5-20 minutes of unpaid labor.
The owners of my franchise also require customers to pay the full cost of their tutoring session if the student missed their appointment, rather than simply charging a missed-appointment fee. However, they send the tutor home immediately with a half-hour of pay. The result is 90 - 100$ in revenue (for a typical 2 hour session) and 7$ in wages. That means, they profit most when students don't show up.
The management at my franchise also delights in assigning students to teachers for subjects in which the teacher has no expertise. They required me to tutor several kids in relatively advanced subjects, even after I professed to have no knowledge of the subject what so ever. Imagine paying 50$/hour to receive piano lessons, and your teacher never touched a piano before in his/her life.
