Originally Posted by
TonyMaff
Hey y'all, Im a CFI CFII MEI, and i was wonder what other instructors are making. I was flying in so-cal and started off at 12.50/ hr then got bumped up to 15/ hr about 7 months later.
That is ridiculously low, especially for Socal. I got my first instructing job three years ago in Socal making $17/hr and was barely scraping by. A year later we took a company wide 15% paycut and I bailed for greener pastures in sunny Florida starting out in the low 20s per hour.