How much should I charge for physics tutoring?

[QuantumCurt]

People who don't have a college degree probably shouldn't be charging more than $20/hour. However, you have a college degree and you won't be working with a firm. I'd say quote something on the order of $40-50/hour. The fact that you charge a high amount should make the parents want to hire you more. This means you have confidence in your skills and are willing to deliver. Consider how much more they would be paying, plus how much less attention the student would get, if he went to a community college.

I'm not sure how to take this comment. What do community colleges have to do with anything?

Community colleges often result in MORE attention from professors, because class sizes are significantly smaller. I'm in a community college currently, and the largest class in my entire school has around 80-90 students in it. Over 90% of classes have fewer than 30 students, and the professors are nearly always very available. We have a comprehensive tutoring lab (which I work in), with tutors for nearly every class in the school, aside from more specialized classes like nursing, welding etc. A lot of the lower level classes like introductory calculus, calculus based physics, and general chemistry would have hundreds of people at a lot of universities. I've never had a physics or math class with more than 20 people in it.

Smaller class sizes and more personalized attention is often considered to be a perk of community colleges.