When I first started all instructors made $18 an hour for all flights, sim, and ground lessons. Then a few months in, they raised it to I think it was $20 and hour but if you FLY more than 40 hours a month, you got $25 an hour for each hour you flew, but all ground and sim were still $20 an hour. In order to get 4500 a month you need to fly 180 hours a month, or about 6 hours a day, 7 days a week. A lot of instructors would fly maybe 100 hours a month, and then bill the school for 50 hours of ground time, when they only really did only like 5 hours. Basically they were ripping the school off by getting hundreds of dollars in free money. There was an incident a little less than a year ago when a few instructors turned in time sheets with over 100 hours of ground time billed, plus a ton of flight time, plus a bunch of sim time. The owners got mad and decided to withhold ground time. As soon as the instructors found out about this, they all decided to "strike" by not doing any flights until they paid their full paychecks. We all got paid by the end of that day, but the guy who sort of organized the strike was fired.

Shortly after I left I heard they completely stopped paying for ground time and sim time.

As far as days off, you have as many as you want. if you want to take a week off, have at it. If you only want to work monday through friday, you can do that too. You basically set your own schedule. Which is great, but if you expect to make $4500 a month, you're not going to be able to take any days off.