Originally Posted by
Duckdude
It is getting very hard to find CFI's now, even at higher pay rates than those mentioned above. I've had several brand new CFI's demand $35,000+/year, with a more experienced instructor saying he needed $60,000 or he wasn't interested. Other flight schools in the area are reporting the same thing.
That is surprising.....not that I think salaries in that range are unreasonable for the services of a professional pilot. One would think that just the aeronautical universities are pumping out tons of graduates with no place to go. Heck, for 60k per year I would go back to instructing part time if they couldn't find anyone else at my local flight school :-)