Pay for CFI's

Can anyone tell me what a typical CFI gets paid? More specifically,
what a full time CFI in a local flight school can expect to get paid?
Just a WAG would be sufficient.

Thanks,
TBS
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The Black Sheep

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The Black Sheep wrote:

Can anyone tell me what a typical CFI gets paid? More specifically,
what a full time CFI in a local flight school can expect to get paid?
Just a WAG would be sufficient.


If you work for Delta Academy, you get $10 per flight hour.
If you work for an FBO or school, it is whatever rate they pay.
If you freelance, it depends on your reputation.

The instructor I use, I pay $35 per flight hour.
I know of another who charges $50 per flight hour.
Both are in demand and are turning students away because they have so
much work.

On Wed, 19 May 2004 15:33:32 GMT, The Black Sheep
wrote:

Can anyone tell me what a typical CFI gets paid? More specifically,
what a full time CFI in a local flight school can expect to get paid?
Just a WAG would be sufficient.

Thanks,
TBS


Between 15 and 25 dollars per Flight hour. When it rains and you
don't fly, you don't make anything.

Some airports give a small salary, but my numbers for that are too old
to have any truth to them.

HTH
z

"zatatime" wrote in message
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On Wed, 19 May 2004 15:33:32 GMT, The Black Sheep
wrote:

Can anyone tell me what a typical CFI gets paid? More specifically,
what a full time CFI in a local flight school can expect to get paid?
Just a WAG would be sufficient.

Thanks,
TBS


Between 15 and 25 dollars per Flight hour. When it rains and you
don't fly, you don't make anything.

Some airports give a small salary, but my numbers for that are too old
to have any truth to them.

And, you have to buy your own health insurance.

"The Black Sheep" wrote in message
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Can anyone tell me what a typical CFI gets paid? More specifically,
what a full time CFI in a local flight school can expect to get paid?
Just a WAG would be sufficient.

A full time flight instructor in a local flight school gets between $12 and
$18 per hour of instruction. An independent gets anywhere from $20 to $50,
unless he specializes in some advanced rating such as multi-engine seaplane.
Then he can get well over $100. However, the independent has to pay his own
payroll taxes, so he is not earning that much more than a flight school
employee.

Locally, the *charge* is $25/hr. I don't know how much if any of that
the airport keeps back.

Most instructors locally don't charge for ground time, which often
doubles the time they spend with a student. When I went for an XC
flight, my instructor would drive up from MA, say 150 miles
round-trip, and sit around the airport until I got back, for no pay.

Of course he is retired, which may give him a more relaxed attitude
toward the profession.

On Wed, 19 May 2004 15:33:32 GMT, The Black Sheep
wrote:

Can anyone tell me what a typical CFI gets paid? More specifically,
what a full time CFI in a local flight school can expect to get paid?
Just a WAG would be sufficient.

Thanks,
TBS

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Cub Driver wrote in message . ..
Locally, the *charge* is $25/hr. I don't know how much if any of that
the airport keeps back.

Most instructors locally don't charge for ground time, which often
doubles the time they spend with a student. When I went for an XC
flight, my instructor would drive up from MA, say 150 miles
round-trip, and sit around the airport until I got back, for no pay.

I've never understood that. Around here we even charge student pilots
on their first solo when we stand next to the runway with our handheld
radio and a camera.

-Robert, CFI

On 20 May 2004 08:45:48 -0700, (Robert M. Gary)
wrote:

Cub Driver wrote in message . ..

I've never understood that. Around here we even charge student pilots
on their first solo when we stand next to the runway with our handheld
radio and a camera.

-Robert, CFI


I would have to agree with you Robert, The student is paying for my
time. I have to eat and pay my bills also, If I have to be there for
the student, then they get charged, just like any other profession
where services are required. If people only knew that I spend 12 or
more hours a day at the airport and usually get about 6 hours of pay
for that time then they would be a little more understanding.


Scott D.

"SD" c o f l y i n g @ p c i s y s d o t n e t wrote in message

I would have to agree with you Robert, The student is paying for my
time. I have to eat and pay my bills also,

My instructor charges strictly off the Hobbes time to the point where I've
actually insisted on paying her more after a half-hour ground briefing
before the flight. (IFR) Other instructors charge the flat $35/hr
whether it's ground or air instruction, and while I've had instructors who
charge a lesser fee for ground time, I don't mind paying it 'cause I know
what their time is worth.

If people only knew that I spend 12 or
more hours a day at the airport and usually get about 6 hours of pay
for that time then they would be a little more understanding.

To me it's a screaming shame that the people who are teaching skills
absolutely necessary to a young pilot's career AND SURVIVAL would make more
money hawking fuses at Radio Shack. Supply and demand is truly the law of
the land.

-c

"It is the Job that you have chosen deal with it." That's what I tell
people that complain about salary jobs that have to work longer than 40
hours a week. This is America we can chouse our place of employment and our
field of work but the sad this is most complain about it.



"SD" c o f l y i n g @ p c i s y s d o t n e t wrote in message
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On 20 May 2004 08:45:48 -0700, (Robert M. Gary)
wrote:

Cub Driver wrote in message
. ..

I've never understood that. Around here we even charge student pilots
on their first solo when we stand next to the runway with our handheld
radio and a camera.

-Robert, CFI


I would have to agree with you Robert, The student is paying for my
time. I have to eat and pay my bills also, If I have to be there for
the student, then they get charged, just like any other profession
where services are required. If people only knew that I spend 12 or
more hours a day at the airport and usually get about 6 hours of pay
for that time then they would be a little more understanding.


Scott D.