Originally Posted by
JohnBurke
If you manage to get 25 an hour instructing, it's going to take 2,000 hours of instructing a year to make fifty grand.
You might set your sights a bit lower.
My best year I made $52k which was in 2006 and on hourly wage.
Yes, I lived at the school.
Wages have gone up since though.
Flight and ground pays the same so assuming a 1:1 ratio you should be anywhere between 1200-1500 billable hours in a year.
You need a ‘full time’ school though with a steady supply of students to make it happen.
School could pay you $75/hr but I’d you can’t put the hours in it’s no good.
CFI>CFII>MEI your value keeps going up. Mentioned already but >2 years and you train new instructors.