How to earn by teaching online in Pakistan

The three ways to earn by teaching online

You can combine them. Many teachers tutor a few students and turn their best lessons into a course.

1. Salaried online teaching roles

Online schools, academies and tutoring companies hire teachers for a fixed number of hours. Vacancies are listed on recruitment sites such as Rozee.pk, Indeed and LinkedIn. The employer decides the subject, the timetable and the pay, and usually asks for a degree or teaching experience.

2. One-to-one tutoring

You find students yourself, through tutoring websites, recommendations, or WhatsApp and Facebook groups for parents. You agree a rate per lesson or per month. Your income depends on the hours you teach: when you stop teaching, the income stops.

3. Your own course

You record lessons, teach live classes, or do both, and students buy the course. You earn a share of each sale. It takes work before the first sale: planning, recording and checking the lessons. After that, the same lessons can be sold again and again.

What you need to start

• A phone with a good camera, or a laptop with a webcam.
• Stable internet, especially for live classes.
• A quiet room with light in front of you, not behind you.
• Clear sound. Students forgive a plain background, but not a voice they can't hear. A basic clip-on microphone is a common first purchase.

How to create your first course

1. Pick one topic your students already ask you about, or that people search for.
2. Write the outcome in one sentence: what a student can do after the course.
3. Plan 5 to 10 short lessons that build on each other.
4. Record one sample lesson first, watch it back on a phone, and fix the sound and light.
5. Record the rest, keeping each lesson focused on one idea.
6. Set a fair price within the platform's limits.
7. Share your own link with your students, parents and followers.

Teaching on Hunarzai

Hunarzai is a course marketplace for Pakistan. It is not a salaried position: you create your own course and earn a share of each sale. The terms below are from the teacher page and the teacher terms:

• Joining as a teacher is free.
• Keep 90% of every sale from your own link (when the student bought after opening your teacher link in the previous 30 days).
• Keep 60% of sales Hunarzai brings you.
• You are paid twice a month, on the 1st and the 15th, by JazzCash, Easypaisa or bank transfer to an account in your name. Each sale becomes payable after its 30-day refund hold, and payouts start once you are owed at least PKR 1,000.
• Price limits: recorded courses up to PKR 4,999, live courses up to PKR 9,999, hybrid courses up to PKR 7,999.
• To get verified you send your CNIC, a WhatsApp number, your qualification and a short sample lesson. Every course is checked by the team before it goes live (see the quality standards).
• You can teach in Urdu, English, Punjabi, Pashto, Sindhi, Saraiki, Balochi, Hindko, Brahui, Kashmiri or any language your students speak.

Mistakes to avoid

• Planning a huge course. Finish a short one first.
• Poor sound. Test your audio before recording every lesson.
• Waiting for students to find you. Share your own link: on Hunarzai, sales from your own link earn you the larger share.
• Copying other people's material. Teach in your own words, with your own examples.

How to start on Hunarzai

Read the teacher page, sign up for free, and set up your profile. When your course is ready, send it for review.