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I recently moved from one of the Southern states to the east coast states, and I am trying to arrange fo Violin lessons for child/ wife, and piano lessons for myself. There seems to be a dramatic increase in the cost. It's possible, I have been spoiled by the low cost of previous lessons. The cost of living in the southern state is overall less. If anyone could post the 30 min., 45 min., and hour cost of lessons, I would appreciate it. Please also post location, and country. I am trying figure out if this is a regional difference. Thanks.

I live in NY, just outside the city. When I did my research it seemed average was a dollar/min more or less. $30 to 35 for 30 mins, $60 to 65 for an hour. Also maybe 5 dollars off if you go to one's home / studio vs them coming to you.

i pay $35 for a half-hour trumpet lesson from one of the best teachers around. i would think that same range would be what piano teachers would charge. in northwest ohio, where i grew up, lessons are like $15, but pretty much anywhere else they seem to be twice that.

I pay $18 for half hour per week at a music store in eastern North Carolina.

I pay $80 dolloars for one hour - New York City.

My brother and his wife moved to Tennessee a few years ago and they say the cost of living is less expensive than the northeast. Must be regional.

Maybe you could create a multiplier and discern how much the price of general goods/cost of living has increased and impliment that to your piano lessons. That's probably how much you should be willing to pay for the same quality of lessons you had in the South.

With my old teacher it was like $40 a month, weekly lessons.

Now its about $35 per half hour with the new teacher.

$40 for about 45 minutes (he isn't strict on the time, we cover the needed material which varies between about 40 and 60 minutes each week).

The roughly $1/minute seems to fall in line with what I was seeing when I was looking around, give or take a few $$.

I'm in Northern Virginia/DC metro.

$40 a month????? Seriously? Did your teacher eat bird seed?

$20 for 30 minutes, $40 for an hour for me. I'm near Rochester, NY. It seems to be the going rate around these parts.

I use a teacher in a music store.
The plans are:

$25 for a single 30 min. lesson
$85 for 4 30 min. lessons
$240 for 12 30 min. lessons.

I do the $85 plan, so 21.25 for 30 min

Oh, BTW, that is in Long Island, NY

I can't imagine getting paid that much.

I'm not sure how posting rates from all over the states is going to help you. The market rate for your area is whatever it is, regardless.

Perhaps its better to see the correlation between these market rates and the cost of living indices across the country. Perhaps that will make you feel better about your new most costly lessons.

http://www.missourieconomy.org/indicators/cost_of_living/index.stm

Where on LI is this? I mean, I love my teacher right now, but that's cheap!

That was a fascinating website, Akira; thanks for posting it. Kentucky has the 4th lowest cost of living index of all the states! WOOT!! Makes my salary look better... and it sure makes me glad I left California...

p.s. Daughter's flute lessons cost $18 per half hour.

In the Sacramento area, piano lessons are $90 per month for 4 30 minute lessons at some local music stores. Teachers give up to half to the store owner/manager in some cases.
Home studios range from $72 to over $100 from my understanding.
I'm in the middle of that range.

California is really not that bad

True indeed. As I'm watching the first of a projected 4 inches of snow starting to fall outside my window, I'm reminded that there's a good reason people pay more to live in California!

I bet your snow is prettier than our rain though. Dreary looking here!

It's only pretty when it first falls. Over the course of a rough winter you come to hate the sight of it and after sloshing/driving through it for the better part of four months (or longer depending on where you live) it becomes rather ugly. I'd opt for the rain any day.

Here in Los Angeles there a a few older well experienced teachers who still teach in their homes for less but going rates for lessons with four different teacher on 3 different teacher all worked out to about 1.00 a minute. For my own piano lessons, I pay 45 for an hour. It's a little bit of a second family member discount, the fact that she likes having an adult dedicated practicer and the fact that I take early afternoon (before school let's out) time slots.

KZ