Originally Posted by flyflorida2001

If you think that you will make more as a first year FO than CFIing you are an idiot. As an FO you may make more per flight hour, however, sitting on reserve, you get minimum guarentee, usually 70-75 hours per month. That's less than 20/wk. So if you work for 18/hr as an instructor and between flight time and ground lessons cna get paid for 30 hours a week...you are cleaning up compared to being an FO.

Give you a hint, I made 19/hr as an instructor, I make 22/hr now as an FO. I raked in almost twice as much instructing as I do now. There's a LOT more to it than the amount per hour.