Are you a teacher ready to work less and make more? This video is all about ways for online teachers to make extra money and build passive income! Online tutoring positions are a solid part-time job to earn extra money online. Depending on your skills, experience, education and schedule, it’s even possible to use a mix of sites to cobble together a full-time career. Keep in mind that you’ll need some degree of technical proficiency to do this job. Sites like Teachers Pay Teachers provide an online library of teaching resources supplied by real-life teachers. Some resources are free, but others are paid for. If you’ve been teaching for a while and have a good stock of resources built up, sharing them online can be a great source of passive income. Make money by flipping furniture. Have you ever been to a thrift shop and come across a gorgeous piece of old furniture that needs a little (or a lot) of love? Well, with the right redo, this piece could earn you $1,000! This is a legit teacher side hustle, and we love this article with great tips on how to flip furniture. Open an Etsy shop.

My sister is a high school teacher in South Boston.

For many years, before having children, she would spend a month or so teaching in England with a summer program. It was part vacation, part side hustle, but 100% trip to England. It’s never bad to keep your skills sharp while getting a mini-vacation in the process!

When that program ended, she opted to go to Taiwan to teach English. We have family there so it was again a half-vacation and half-side hustle, albeit less structured. We have relatives to run a tutoring and summer school operation so my sister joined on as a teacher for the summer.

Now that she has young kids of her own, she no longer has the luxury to pursue those types of summer hustles.

For many educators, a side hustle is a must because many areas don’t pay their teachers well enough (just look at the recent teacher protests in West Virginia, North Carolina, Arizona, Colorado, etc).

If you’re a teacher and looking to make a little extra money, there are opportunities where you can continue to work with kids as well as those where you don’t:

1. Teaching English as a Second Language

There’s continues to be huge demand for teaching English as a second language online. It’s so versatile that we decided to lead with this item and separate it from tutoring (even though it is still tutoring). The opportunity is that great because this is a high dollar side hustle you can do from home.

Rather than teach in a classroom, there are online services where you can tutor students as far away as China. There is one-on-one tutoring as well as group tutoring sessions, all done remotely with a computer and a webcam.

VIPKid

The most traditional of these options is VIPKid, which is always 1-on-1 teaching. After you pass a brief interview, you can make as much as $22 an hour when you hit various performance bonuses. We interviewed Whitney about her experience on the platform and she talks about what it’s like.

QKids

QKids is a platform for online tutoring of Chinese students ages 4-12 but in a group setting. Rather than 1-on-1, you are in a 1-on-up-to-4 situation for 30 minute in-lesson time. There is an interview process that requires a video but the requirements to become a teacher are more relaxed (it includes those in the final year of college).

EF Education First

EF Education First is an online teaching platform where you can earn money tutoring students. They prefer experience in early childhood development, teaching, coaching, or mentoring but the only requirements are that you are a native English speaker, live in the United States, and have a bachelor’s degree or higher in any field. You will also have to submit to a secure online background check but EF Education First pays for that. You’ll also need a computer, headset, and internet connection since you’ll be teaching using video on your computer.

You’ll teach in half-hour blocks and you can earn $20 per hour to start, but there are opportunities to earn more including bonuses for time spent teaching.

2. Child Care, Babysitting & Caregiving

The summer months are often a boon for caregivers because school is out and parents may not have lined up options for their kids. If it’s during the school year, parents may need a break at night or on weekends so they have a chance to be adults.

Either way, you can create a free profile on a site like SitterCity.com or Care.com that will connect with families that need extra help. You set your schedule and the average rates are around $12-15 an hour.

3. Create Online Courses

You can always do this through YouTube, but you also have to promote your courses in entrepreneur-like fashion. Another alternative is a website called Udemy. You choose your topic, create your course, and Udemy will even help you promote it for a percentage of your sales.

Udemy is both a source of online courses for visitors, as well as a platform for professionals to create those courses. You can create a series of courses based on your own teaching specialties, or even completely unrelated topics.

4. Drive & Ridesharing

All you need is a decent car, a smart phone, and some extra room in your schedule, and you can join the ridesharing revolution. Uber and Lyft are two of the more popular ridesharing platforms for drivers and they even have an earning guarantee. Sign up to be a driver, and you can earn between $15 an hour and $25 an hour, or even more in busy urban locations.

As a teacher, you can adjust your ridesharing availability. You can drive a few hours a week during the school year, and more during school breaks and summer vacation. It’s an income source that can adjust easily to your own schedule.

If you don’t like the idea of driving people, you could deliver food on demand through Instacart or Door Dash. With Door Dash, they set minimum earning rates and you get to keep 100% of your tips!

If you want to shop and deliver groceries, Instacart may be a better option.

5. Fill out Online Surveys

A lot of market research companies will pay you to take surveys. You will not earn a ton from these survey companies but the surveys don’t take a lot of time, you can do it at your own pace, and you might even enjoy answering a few questions. The best part is that you can often get paid in cash or turn it into Amazon gift cards, which are as good as cash!

Teachers Earn Extra Money Online For Free

Some are reputable, others are not, but the ones we really like are:

Swagbucks (get a $5 bonus and read our Swagbucks review!)
Ipsos i-Say (read our Ipsos i-Say review)
InboxDollars (get a $5 bonus and read our Inbox Dollars review!)

6. Participate in a Focus Group

A focus group is a great way to earn money because you just have to show up, answer a few questions for an hour or two, and get paid a significant sum of money. I did one many years ago and made $100 cash for 90 minutes.

If you want to find good focus groups, I recommend signing up for Respondent.io.

You will be able to search for focus groups, rather than get put on a list, and find the ones that you’re likely to qualify for. The more general ones pay less, like a casual dining restaurant focus group pays $150 per 90 minutes but one for people in the shipbuilding industry pays $200 for 60 minutes (fewer people qualify for that).

It’s completely free to join (any focus group should be free to join, if it isn’t, then it’s a scam!

7. Freelance Writing

Teachers usually have an above average ability to write, even if they don’t teach writing related subjects, like English or literature. One of the big advantages here is that there are so many potential topics you can write on. For example, if you’re a science teacher, you can write on science related topics.

You can do it through freelance job boards like Contena, which pulls together the listings from every job board to save you a ton of time. You can also offer your services on a direct basis, through Craigslist and by approaching websites and blogs directly. (H