-Extremely low pay ($18-23/hour to start), especially considering tutors are not compensated for travel time and gas costs. Presumably this is because of the costs of marketing, maintaining a support staff, and hiring programmers to build the tutor portal. But considering that all of the overhead and logistical costs are pushed onto the families and the tutors, there is no excuse for StudyPoint to pay so little. Even most of the staff I've spoken with are contractors who work from home, so StudyPoint has streamlined their costs as much as humanly possible and still can't afford to pay tutors a decent wage. They say you can write off gas costs on your taxes as a business expense, but, again, they're just pushing the cost onto someone else. I find it ridiculous that someone in the other review would say that clients pay "top dollar"
-Onboarding takes forever, with the 11-hour training, full-length test, additional phone calls with managers, and convoluted payroll signup.
I came into StudyPoint as an experienced freelance tutor (300+ hours completed.) I was curious what it would be like to work for a company, and was finding it difficult to find clients on my own at the time. But I can tell you right now that this is NOT a company for experienced and capable tutors. If don't have your BA yet and need some work in the summer, it's fine. But if you have any tutoring experience, a degree from a decent school, and can set up a basic profile for yourself, you are better off either looking for freelance jobs online (WyZant, Care.com, or even Craigslist) and putting together a roster of clients, or working for a smaller educational company that has higher hiring standards but will pay $35-40/hour.
