CFI Salary Survey
05-28-2009 | 12:26 AM
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CFI Salary Survey
As a furloughed airline pilot with limited options, I am thinking if getting the 'ol CFI\CFII certificates reinstated. I have not instructed for almost 10 years (yes, of course, I will freshen up before instructing others).
Nonetheless, 10 years in the midwest, I was paid about $12\hr at a pt141 school.
What are the going rates now?
Nonetheless, 10 years in the midwest, I was paid about $12\hr at a pt141 school.
What are the going rates now?
05-28-2009 | 06:06 AM
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Was getting $25 an hour with no guarantee recently at a big Part 141 school. I was doing it part time and didn't care about the money, but the guys doing it full time were able to make around $30k annually if they hustled. They were not really short on students, it was more about getting the students to show up on time to get the clock running and the weather. I do not think the training pace is as fast now the recession has set in. However, I was still being solicited to come to various flight schools as recently as March. None of them would offer a monthly guarantee and rates were all around $20-30 an hour.
05-28-2009 | 06:11 AM
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Midwest 141 flight school: From $10.00 to $20.00 hr based on dual given and certificates held. No monthly guarantee and no guarantee on the number of students each instructor gets. The better the instructors record of pass rates the more students.
05-28-2009 | 08:40 AM
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Assuming you have some previous CFI experience, you might consider freelance work. You can get a higher hourly rate, and many students prefer to see a few grey hairs or wrinkles. If you have (or acquire) specialty GA skills like MEI, glass, GPS, Cirrus, etc. You can charge more than a basic CFI-172.
Freelancers have to find their own students, but many school CFI's have to do the same.
Freelancers have to find their own students, but many school CFI's have to do the same.
05-28-2009 | 02:04 PM
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yes with most avg 25+/hr. a good majority of CFI/MEIs I know are making 40k+. that is one of the many reasons most of them can't afford to go to the regionals.
05-28-2009 | 03:35 PM
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I second that! I'm a young CFI, and where I worked before I taught mostly older guys. Most of those 'older guys' just about fell over when they came to grips with me not being there to clean the bathroom, but instead to *gasp* teach them how to fly!! Nooo!!
But seriously, being older automatically gives you a ton of street cred to the older generation.
But seriously, being older automatically gives you a ton of street cred to the older generation.
05-28-2009 | 05:24 PM
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$10/hour at the university I just graduated from. Didn't get paid at all while on the ground so it came out to be that I was actually getting about $7.00 an hour doing pre/post briefs. Be careful who you work for!
I do freelance now and charge $40 an hour.
I do freelance now and charge $40 an hour.
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