Teaching English online from Ireland: what you could earn
From a fixed $10.20 an hour on Cambly to $25 an hour and more 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 runs from a fixed $10.20 an hour (about €9.08) on Cambly to $25 an hour (about €22.26) and beyond for tutors who set their own rates on the big marketplaces. 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 €9.08. Cambly Kids pays $0.20 a minute, $12.00 an hour, about €10.68. No degree needed, weekly payout. | Cambly tutors → |
| Preply | You set the hourly rate. Most English tutors charge $15 to $25 an hour, about €13.35 to €22.26. Commission starts at 33% and falls to 18% as your hours build. Trial lessons are unpaid. | 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 22 October 2026, fortnightly sweep: this desk was converting dollars to euro at 0.8664, taken from an August 2026 rate, while the rest of the estate had moved to the European Central Bank rates of October. It was the third rate date on the site and the only one that is wrong in a reader’s favour to ignore: the dollar has moved far enough since August that every euro figure here, and every figure the planner computed, was understating earnings by about 2.7 per cent. The planner constant and the six published euro figures are now on the ECB reference rate of 21 October 2026, read at source today. Cambly moves from €8.84 to €9.08 an hour, Cambly Kids from €10.40 to €10.68, and the Preply range from €13–€21.66 to €13.35–€22.26. No dollar figure changed and no platform pay page was re-read, so the 6 August check date above stands as written.
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.