Online special education tutoring jobs in Tennessee
Tennessee teachers — your license is worth more than the classroom is paying you for. If you hold a Tennessee special education license, we want to talk. Online tutoring, 5 to 10 hours a week, $23–$25 an hour as a W-2 employee. Weekly direct deposit. No state income tax. No IEPs to write.
This works particularly well in Tennessee. Here's why.
No state income tax.
Tennessee is one of the only states in the country with no state income tax. Federal tax still applies, but your state takes nothing. Compared to a teacher in California earning the same $24/hour, you keep meaningfully more of every dollar. At ten hours a week for a year, that difference adds up to real money.
Your students are everywhere — and they all need help.
Tennessee has reported special education teacher vacancy rates north of 30% in recent years. The kids who need help are stuck without it. Many of those families are looking for outside tutors precisely because their districts can't fill positions. The work is real, and it's needed.
Evening hours fit your time zone.
Tennessee straddles Eastern and Central. Most of our students log on between 4 and 8 p.m. local time, which means your tutoring hours line up with their after-school window. You're not waking up at 5 a.m. to teach a kid in another time zone.
The pay math, honestly.
Let's just put real numbers in front of you.
$24/hr × 10 hours/week × 52 weeks = $12,480/year
In Tennessee, with no state income tax, you keep more of that than almost anywhere else in the country. After federal tax and FICA at typical part-time rates, that's roughly $9,500 to $10,500 a year of supplemental income that lands in your bank account every Friday.
That's a vacation. That's a mortgage payment knocked out every month. That's the kid's college fund moving forward instead of standing still.
Which one are you?
Currently teaching in a Tennessee district
You already do this work all day. We're not asking you to do more of it — we're offering you a way to do it on your own terms, for the families who really value it, in a setting where you actually get to teach.
Most of our currently-teaching tutors work two evenings a week, usually Tuesday and Thursday from about 5 to 7 p.m. They tutor one or two students they've been matched with, follow a session brief our team puts together, teach for 45 minutes, and log out. That's the whole job.
If you've ever come home from work and thought "I love teaching, I just don't love what teaching has become" — this is the part of teaching you came back for.
Retired from a Tennessee classroom
Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System (TCRS) generally allows retired teachers to earn supplemental income without affecting their pension, but there are specifics depending on your retirement type and rehire arrangement.
We're not a school district, so most TCRS rules around "return to teaching" don't apply to us in the same way — but we're not your accountant, and you should always check with TCRS or a financial advisor before assuming anything.
What we hear from retired teachers most often: they miss the kids. Not the parking lot, not the staff meetings, not the testing. Just the kids. We give you back the kids.
Tennessee-specific questions
Do I need a Tennessee license, or will a license from another state work?
What about TCRS rules on returning to work?
Where in Tennessee do most of your tutors live?
What internet speed do I need?
Tennessee teachers — start the conversation.
Five minutes in our chatbot tells us everything we need to know to figure out if this is a fit. If it is, we'll be on the phone with you within two business days.