StudyPoint reviews about "pay"

Office morale was abysmal; the expectations placed on you are often difficult to meet, and you're constantly made to feel like you'll be fired at any instant if you don't meet their (sometimes arbitrary and poorly justified) targets. Burnout is extremely common due to these targets and the very very (very) high turnover at the company. Messaging and expectations are often inconsistent as well, and managers need more professional training on how to manage. Moreover, the pay is really atrocious in comparison to that at similarly sized companies, particularly for the amount of time you put in. StudyPoint managers like to portray work as flexible, but that's really only the case if you work from home. Office culture is hit or miss.

No office environment. Unpredictable time for traveling.

There's not much support. Once you're up and running you're basically on your own. The pay is very low when you consider how much time you have to put in for travel, prep, administrative duties. All things considered, you're probably not making more than $15 per hour.

The main con is that it is nearly impossible to make a full-time job of it due to the fact that you will have to work almost exclusively nights and weekends, so you can't expect more than about 20 hours/wk from a tutor job with this company. Also expect to pay for your own gas and not to be compensated for the many hours you will likely be driving as you tutor at students' houses. If you go in knowing that this is what will happen then you'll be fine because it's really a good job for what it is. You get a lot of support from the company and if you are a good tutor you will mostly get a lot of encouragement - most of the families are very appreciative.

Pay is relatively low once you factor in prep time, travel, parent consults, administrative work, etc. Starting pay is at $20 per hour; however after factoring in all of the above it decreases to around $12 per hour. ( The competition pays more!) Second issue is a lack of students. Currently I meet with two students for a total of 4 hrs per week. I'm sure I could get more students by expanding my service area; however the pay is much too low to be traveling more than 30 minutes one way to increase my workload.

The pay does not take into consideration all the prep work and travel time. For instance, if I called a program manager with a question about a student and the call ended up lasting 30 minutes, that is unpaid work for a non-salaried tutor. The materials would change (updated materials in itself is a good thing) so that I feel I had to learn all new material over again on my own time.

- Pay is not on par with competitors in the same area. - Technology is decent, but could use some tweaking. - Perhaps increase frequency of pay (instead of bi-weekly).