Highest Paying Flight Instructor Jobs
10-26-2011, 07:27 PM
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Highest Paying Flight Instructor Jobs
Just wanted to open a discussion about highly paid flight instructors. Even though some might say that's an oxymoron. I just wanted to share with some folks that there are and have been positions that I've seen that pay $30-40 an hour.
My opinion is that there should be more of these positions paying flight instructors that rate.
I figure I help some aspiring flight instructors know that they are out there and that you shouldn't jump on the first available position out there. You need to consider pay and QOL.
Btw a normal 9-5 job has a person working 2000 hours a year. Pilots are normally on the job for 2000 hours but only get paid 1000 hours a year. Going by those numbers, a pilot should treat a $30/hour job as only $15/hour, or an $18/hour as really being $9/hour
My opinion is that there should be more of these positions paying flight instructors that rate.
I figure I help some aspiring flight instructors know that they are out there and that you shouldn't jump on the first available position out there. You need to consider pay and QOL.
Btw a normal 9-5 job has a person working 2000 hours a year. Pilots are normally on the job for 2000 hours but only get paid 1000 hours a year. Going by those numbers, a pilot should treat a $30/hour job as only $15/hour, or an $18/hour as really being $9/hour
10-26-2011, 09:18 PM
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I know the going rate in the DFW area is $40/hr. At least the guys who are in business for themselves. That, however, entails finding your own students and having access to an aircraft.
I've heard of more being paid for MEIs and specialty training. Last time I checked, an hour in Crazy Horse (P-51) was $3,000/hr. I guarantee you the instructor is seeing more than $40/hr.
I've heard of more being paid for MEIs and specialty training. Last time I checked, an hour in Crazy Horse (P-51) was $3,000/hr. I guarantee you the instructor is seeing more than $40/hr.
11-01-2011, 06:12 AM
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Originally Posted by LongFlight
Instruction at my school is $38/hr for private and I think its $45/hr for complex/multi.
They can do that because the owners run the business for fun not for profit. The owners have other businesses that make them profit.
And if you ask me, that's the way it should be. It saves the students money and pays the instructors more money, which means more loyalty from the instructors and the students to stay with the company.
11-01-2011, 08:33 AM
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If you know what your doing and have some bonus skills (cirrus, garmin, MEI) you can make $80 freelance in SOCAL. But you have to look and sound like you have experience too, not like a teenager or wet CFI.
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