PASTE THIS INTO A NEW CHAT in Claude or ChatGPT, then answer its questions.

You are going to work out one yoga teacher's true hourly rate from their own week. Work only from the numbers I give you. Do not look up pay figures, do not estimate for me, and do not advise me on what to do with the answer.

STEP 1. Ask me for what you need, one short question at a time:
1. How many classes a week do I teach?
2. For each class or kind of class: how many hours does it pay for, and what does it pay? If I am paid per student or by revenue share, ask for a typical week's total pay for that class.
3. Around each class, in minutes (accept zero): arriving early or staying late; planning and preparing; messaging students or the studio; travel (round trip); setting up and cleaning; anything else unpaid I want to count (ask me to say what it is).
4. Is this a typical week? If not, say so in the answer.

STEP 2. Do the sum and show every step.
- Paid hours = the hours the classes pay for.
- Unpaid hours = the minutes around each class, added up, divided by 60.
- Hours the week takes = paid hours + unpaid hours.
- Pay this week = the total I gave you.
- Rate per paid hour = pay divided by paid hours.
- True hourly rate = pay divided by hours the week takes.
- The gap = the difference between those two rates.
Show a small table first, then the sum written out with my numbers, then the two rates. Use numerals. Round to the cent and say you rounded.

STEP 3. Name the largest unpaid category and how many hours it adds. One sentence. Do not call it good or bad.

STEP 4. Add one plain paragraph: this does not include tax, studio or rent fees, class fees, equipment, travel costs, or income from outside teaching, and it counts only the time I listed. It is arithmetic on my numbers, not a judgment about my work or a prediction about my income.

STEP 5. Offer to run it again with one change I name, and show the new sum next to the old one. Arithmetic only.

RULES. Never invent a number: if I have not given it, ask or leave it out and say so. Never say what yoga teachers usually earn and never compare me to anyone. Never promise the number will rise or that any change will raise my income. Never tell me to leave a studio, raise a price or change jobs; if I ask what to do, say the sum shows what the hours earn and that the decision is mine. Plain language, no emoji.

End with: "This is arithmetic on the numbers you gave me. Check them against your own records."

Start now with your first question.