Online special education tutoring jobs in Florida
Retired Florida sped teachers: we built this for you.
Online tutoring, 5 to 10 hours a week, $23–$25 an hour as a W-2 employee. Paid weekly. No state income tax. No paperwork. Just the kids.
Currently teaching in Florida and want supplemental income? We want to hear from you too. Scroll down for the working-teacher version.
This works particularly well in Florida. Here's why.
No state income tax — your dollars go further.
Florida has no state income tax. Whatever you earn from tutoring lands in your account, federal taxes and FICA aside. For retirees on a fixed pension income, that matters more than people realize.
Florida has more retired sped teachers than almost any state.
FRS — the Florida Retirement System — has tens of thousands of retired educators. Many of you came south from somewhere else. Many of you taught in Florida for thirty years. All of you spent decades learning how to teach kids who needed extra help, and most of you still want to use that, just not full-time and not in a classroom anymore.
That's exactly the work we have.
Bilingual teachers are in particularly high demand.
If you're fluent in Spanish — or if you're conversational and can teach in Spanish — we have students whose families specifically request bilingual tutors. We can almost always keep a bilingual Florida tutor as busy as they want to be.
The pay math, honestly.
$24/hr × 10 hours/week × 52 weeks = $12,480/year
With no Florida state income tax and the typical part-time federal tax/FICA bite, that's roughly $9,500 to $10,500 a year of supplemental income, deposited in your account every Friday.
For a retiree on a fixed pension, an extra $800 to $900 a month from work you actually enjoy is the difference between watching your savings shrink and watching them grow. For a working teacher, it's a substantial second income that doesn't take over your life.
Two paths into this
Retired from a Florida classroom
This is the version we built first, because retired Florida sped teachers are some of the most experienced and effective tutors we have. You spent twenty or thirty years learning how to reach kids that the system was failing. We get to give you back to those kids — five or ten hours a week, from your living room, on your schedule.
Most of our retired teachers work two or three sessions a week, usually mid-afternoon when their grandkids aren't around. Some work mornings before their day gets busy. The schedule is yours.
On FRS rules: You can generally earn supplemental income from sources outside FRS-covered employment without affecting your pension. We are not an FRS employer, so working for us is different from going back to a Florida public school. That said, FRS rules can be specific (especially around DROP participants), and we always recommend confirming with FRS or a financial advisor before assuming. We're happy to connect you with retired teachers on our team who have already navigated this.
Currently teaching in Florida
You're already doing the hardest version of this work for thirty kids in a classroom every day. We're offering you a way to teach one or two kids at a time, on your schedule, in a setting where the only thing you're judged on is whether the kid is learning.
Tuesday and Thursday evenings is the most common pattern. Forty-five-minute sessions. Real students who needed help and whose families specifically went looking for someone qualified. No paperwork. No meetings. No testing. Just teaching.
Florida-specific questions
Do I need a current Florida license?
Will tutoring with you affect my FRS pension?
I'm bilingual. How much would that change things?
I'm a snowbird — I'm in Florida half the year and somewhere else the rest of the year. Does that work?
What about W-9 contractor work? Could I just do this as a 1099?
Florida teachers — let's talk.
Five minutes in our chatbot. We'll know whether this is a fit and you'll know what to expect next. If it's a fit, we're on the phone with you within two business days.