Ringle Reviews

1. Pay. $15/hr starting wage may seem lucrative, but keep in mind you must pay significantly higher taxes than a typical W-2 employee—a base amount of approx. 14% instead of 7%. This is because Ringle pays you as a 1099 contractor, which means you must pay double the Social Security and Medicare taxes compared to a normal W-2 employee. (As a W-2 employee, your employer would pay the other half for you). Google "Self Employment Tax" for more details. It's thus customary for contract employers to pay higher hourly wages to offset the tax different. Ringle does not do this. You might be happy when the paychecks hit your account, but you are sure to be disappointed when taxes are due. 2. Pay, continued: $15/hr is also quite low compared to other tutoring services that hire US college graduates. 2. Pay, continued part two. Want to get a dollar raise to $16/hr? You must teach at least 500 lessons. That's a lot. 3. Attitude towards tutors. If you cancel a lesson last minute, they don't just withhold pay from you, they actually fine you. Yep, that's right, a fine. They take money out of your future paycheck as a penalty. Additionally, students can leave reviews on tutors' profiles but there is no way to respond. This goes against conventional norms—see Yelp, Google, etc.

Ringle exploits their tutors to the point where during one of their referral events, they asked me how they can get more tutors to join when they pay us so low. So they know they're not compensating us very much given how much money they earn off businesses paying for employees to use their platforms. I worked with them for an extended amount of time because I genuinely loved teaching. However, their star strike system will WEED OUT long term tutors. If you get 10 strikes you're completely out. No meetings with the team, no room for explanation, just kicked out. They disregard the amount of work you've given for their constant referral events to being in new tutors and the high reviews you have with countless students. Strikes are pretty easy to get. If you can only open a limited amount of slots one week and don't accept one lesson, you've basically earned yourself a strike for that week. The longer you work there, the more strikes you'll get with NO ROOM to make up for it no matter how good of a tutor you are. Overall, very disappointed in how they treat their tutors and those who have put in so many years of hard work and brought in so many talented tutors for them. They simply disregarded all of my genuine emails asking for an appeal and room for explanation. Additionally, they refused to do a virtual meeting with me to discuss reactivation of my account even when the policies stated it was part of the process. I felt like I had no room to explain that I had been a very engaging tutor and only had strikes slowly accrue due (most due to the reason I stated above) to the YEARS I have been with the company. Now I have no way to contact the students I've taught for so many years who were looking forward to our next lessons. Honestly, felt like I wasted my time for this exploitive company and put in way too much effort for no respect back.