Average flight instructor pay
10-27-2006, 10:45 AM
#21
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I work at UND. Pay is 16 an hour if you are teaching commercial level curriculum. It goes to $23 an hour if you are CFI initial qualified and assigned a CFI student. Here is the kicker though, if you are assigned a CFI student you get the 23 an hour even when you are teaching a private or commercial student. It is a flat rate across the board. The best part is the personal use in which you can get a seminole for about $110 an hour and we get free medical care nation wide with no monthly premiums. The health benefits cover your entire family if you have one, which saves about 500 a month. That is worth it all in itself.
10-27-2006, 01:29 PM
#22
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I see thanks for the responses. I was just trying to get an idea of the pay... I will be ready in about 10 months. I am currently in the AUS but plan on being somewhere in the Dallas area next year.
10-30-2006, 05:10 AM
#23
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Pay
The sad and scary thing is that it seems that pay hasn't gone up much since my days as a CFI in the early 90's.
The most I ever made was while living out of the back of my Toyota truck. I was a renegade independent flight instructor. Airport managers all over ANC were after me. I would get paid 20$ per hour cash. I had a cessna 150 but would fly out of customer planes most often. At the end of the day I often would have $100 cash. It was a lot of money in 1991. It went to buy parts, beer and dog food.
SkyHigh
The most I ever made was while living out of the back of my Toyota truck. I was a renegade independent flight instructor. Airport managers all over ANC were after me. I would get paid 20$ per hour cash. I had a cessna 150 but would fly out of customer planes most often. At the end of the day I often would have $100 cash. It was a lot of money in 1991. It went to buy parts, beer and dog food.
SkyHigh
10-05-2008, 08:18 AM
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It's possible that flight instructor pay at large flight schools (that charge a good bit for the rental alone) will go down significantly over the next 6-7 months or so.... Banks will probably be a little hard stretched to give domestic students a ridiculous $70k loan considering the recent circumstances. It is even possible that several large flight schools that don't have foreign contracts might close the doors. Even foreign contracts might go down a little bit especially from Europe as the Euro may reach $1.25 this summer (who knows?).
02-29-2012, 01:17 PM
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Out here in Delaware part 61 I charge $30-40 but part 141 down at the Dover AFB $18 to start but you get raises with added certs and yearly not bad they have a good floe of students.
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