Teaching English online from Ireland: what you could earn
From a fixed $10.20 an hour on Cambly to whatever you can charge on marketplaces where tutors set the price, online teaching pay varies wildly by route. Set your rate and hours in the planner below and see the euro value of your teaching week, month and year, converted at the European Central Bank rate and checked against each platform’s own pay page.
Teach English online: plan what you could earn
Teaching online is the one route on the board that stays open all year, whatever the school calendars are doing. So here is the honest picture. Online English teacher pay starts at a fixed $10.20 an hour (about €9.16) on Cambly, and on the big marketplaces there is no published band at all, because tutors set their own rates. Pick a route, set your rate and hours, and see what teaching English online pays per week, per month and per year.
Online teaching pay, straight from the platforms
| Route | How the pay works | Official pay page |
|---|---|---|
| Cambly | Fixed $0.17 a minute, so $10.20 an hour, about €9.16. Cambly Kids pays $0.20 a minute, $12.00 an hour, about €10.78. No degree needed, weekly payout. | Cambly tutors → |
| Preply | You set the hourly rate and change it any time. Preply publishes no rate band for English tutors, so this desk no longer carries one. Commission starts at 33% and falls to 18% as your taught hours build, and the first trial lesson with each new student is unpaid. Re-read at source 28 October 2026. | Preply tutors → |
| italki | You set the rate. 21% commission on single lessons, down to 15% on packages, 0% on trials. | italki commission → |
| Your own students | Privately arranged lessons. No commission, you keep everything, but you find the students and handle payments yourself. | None |
Teaching English online, your questions answered
New to this? A 120 hour TEFL certificate is the qualification online platforms and paying students look for first. Start with the 120 Hour Advanced International TEFL Course and you can be taking bookings in a few weeks.
Updated 29 October 2026, fortnightly sweep: the $15 to $25 an hour range attributed to Preply has been withdrawn from this desk. The 28 October check established that it is not on preply.com/en/teach, and our standing rule is that a figure its named source does not carry does not ship, so it has been removed from the platform table, the intro, the answer block, the planner note and the FAQ schema. Preply publishes no rate band for English tutors, and that is what the desk now says. The figures that remain are the ones their platforms do publish: Cambly $0.17 a minute, Cambly Kids $0.20 a minute, Preply commission 33% falling to 18%, italki 21% on single lessons. No platform pay page has been re-read since, and no rate or commission has changed, so the 28 October check date above stands as written, as does the ECB rate of 28 October 2026.
Official sources, dated checks, honest corrections
Nothing on this desk is guessed. Every rate and rule is read from the official source, stamped with the date we checked it, and fixed in place the moment the source moves. If we get something wrong, the correction is printed where the error stood.