At my New Hampshire flight school:

FT-$500/pay period (2 weeks). Covers 20 hours of instruction in period. If you log more, you get hourly on the following scale:
20-30 hrs: $15/hr
30-40 hrs: $16/hr
40-50 hrs: $17/hr
50+ hrs: $18/hr

PT-$17/hr, get assigned students by FT instructors. No benefits.


I would say that if you get less than $15/hr (and that's pushing it), something is very wrong. Get paid what you deserve!

Man, I would kill to have a guarantee every pay period. There have been a couple weeks this year with long strings of bad weather that really hurt the wallet. I make $17.25 as a full time 'II, medical paid (good insurance too!). School pays for my currency. I can do MX flights and ferry flights but I don't get payed.... honestly I don't care because I actually get to fly the plane and its free flight time. I'm looking into moving to the San Antonio, TX area this fall if anyone has suggestions on flight schools/FBO down there?

Flight School in CT

$22hr contact time as a CFII w/approx 600 DG , no benefits and you are an independent contractor (you're responsible for your own taxes).

I work at flight school that is on contract with a university they charge 50/hr for private and 55 for all other ratings. Good weather makes good pay checks, bad winter weather is a struggle to get the rent paid.

Only get 20/hr out of it for flight and ground instruction.

I'm getting $16.08/hr of contact time. If you do not have a Bachelor's, it's lower. Each pay period I also get a stipend of $100 that tries to cover the time I'm scheduling and doing paperwork. The other nice benefit is at 50 hrs of contact time in a pay period (2 weeks), you get a 15% raise, 25% raise at 60 hours of contact time. Unfortuneately, I'm down to 1 student right now since everyone went back home for the summer, so I haven't made a raise in a while. Full benefit package with medical, dental, vision. Reimbursement for Medicals. Free unlimited sim time whenever, and free currency/proficiency flights in the airplane. i.e. a couple months ago I got a S.E. Commercial student and since I hadn't done commercial maneuvers in the last year, they paid for a "refresher" flight with a senior IP.

You can also get about a $3/hr raise at 750 Dual given (In airplane AND sim) and another $3/hr at 1500 Dual given. You get $3/hr more if the activity is a stage check (I'm not a check instructor yet).

And no mxt pay. The only time we get paid for an activity that didn't happen is when a student legitimately no-shows (not medically no-shows). The university charges the students a lot if they have an unexcused no show ($200 for first, $400 for second, failure of course for third).

I'm getting $19/hr. I was making $23/hr before I went to the airlines.

I'm going to try to talk him into a little more when teaching in the twin, otherwise I'm going to avoid it. Not worth it.

$30/hr. BUT, summers and the holidays are suuuuuuper slow.

Hey etflies,

I make $15/hr at a school that charges $40/hr for instruction. No pay for mx delays. Oh wait, do we work at the same place?

Hmm...my school charges the same rate for instruction and we make about the same...could very well be that we do? What a small world.

25.00 and hour both ground and flight. I explained to my students outright that if they scheduled 3 hours, they were getting billed for three. I didn't work for free. I didn't bill 2.x or 1.x taking into account pre and post-flight, etc. Any cancellations that were not weather or Mx based ,i.e. no shows, got billed half the rate. Setting the standard up front really helped. Most seemed to understand that they got paid when they went to work, even if they went to the bathroom. Since I only did it part-time, if I was at the school, I was damn sure getting paid for it.

A##hole you say? Hardly. During the summer my schedule was always full.