Cfi Salary Poll

[guitarpah]

How Much do you make as a CFI (those who are doing it for time building)?

 

[hattrick]

lol yup were all just a bunch of time builders here

 

[mtsu_av8er]

WTF is a "timebuilding CFI"?

If no "Professional CFI's" can answer, the results should be empty . . .

 

[Chris_Ford]

Even though I am "Building time" I'm not necessarily "timebuilding" as I realize that this CFI thing isn't just "sit in the airplane, look out the window, get your X00 hours and then move on to something else. It's nice to have a little bit of pride in your own ability, and to take the challenge to actually teach people, and instill the same passion that you have for aviation.

 

[wheelsup]

I'm thinking he wanted to exclude those "professional" CFI's that work at Simcom, PanAm, FlightSafety, etc. etc.

He wanted run of the mill, flight school working CFI's...

~wheelsup

 

[guitarpah]

professional

funny thing about english, we have the most word out of any language, but we also have more alternate meaning for words

Accoring to national poll's, the mean salary for a flight instructor is [FONT=verdana, arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]$80,380 with a standard deviation of about $5,000 this is the discription that is offered for this career: [/FONT] [FONT=verdana, arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Flight Instructor[/FONT]
[FONT=verdana,arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Instructs student pilots in flight procedures and techniques in ground school courses and flight training. Prepares lesson plans. Evaluates and monitors students performance. This position is typically is represented by a senior level pilot. The compensation data does NOT reflect salaries of flight instructors from smaller local flight schools who typically work on an hourly basis and consider the accumulation of airtime the highest priority in their respective careers

Perhaps professional was a poor word choice, I ment it to mean that Flight istructor was not your final intended prefession. But i think you knew that..
Much love
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[derg]

Bad data.

 

[Red5xwingdriver]

I worked for a flight school at Republic airport in Farmingale on Long Island. The potential to make just over $50,000 a year existed(at $18/hr), but, you would have to work five 2 hour slots per day(10 hours of flight/ground), for six days a week, for the WHOLE YEAR.....I don't know, maybe an android that doesn't have to have lunch, sleep, partake of hobbies outside of flying or have a wife can do it.

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[CRJDriver]

I know a few flight schools were instructors can make between 30K-60K/year.

 

[bob loblaw]

WTF is a "timebuilding CFI"?

If no "Professional CFI's" can answer, the results should be empty . . .

That is another one of my petpeeves. "Are you a CFI or are you a timebuilder?" Sure, I will come to work and teach, but I won't log any of the time I get from it. I teach for a living and as a result my flight time builds.

 

[mtsu_av8er]

That is another one of my petpeeves. "Are you a CFI or are you a timebuilder?" Sure, I will come to work and teach, but I won't log any of the time I get from it. I teach for a living and as a result my flight time builds.

Exactly. Maybe I'm just crazy, but I'd like to think that we all see ourselves as "professional".

 

[DCApilot2006]

here we go again.... I make 10 an hour and lucky if I NET 700 bucks a month You know where I work.

UND, What flight school do you know that pays up to 60K a year? I wanna instruct there FOREVER. Screw the airlines.:nana2:

 

[aeroman2]

Even though I am "Building time" I'm not necessarily "timebuilding" as I realize that this CFI thing isn't just "sit in the airplane, look out the window, get your X00 hours and then move on to something else. It's nice to have a little bit of pride in your own ability, and to take the challenge to actually teach people, and instill the same passion that you have for aviation.

I couldnt agree more, I have found from personal experiance from being a student that yes there are some instructores that are there primarly to gain hours, but I belive it is very important for them to realize that they are teaching a very important thing in the students life, and to take pride in their work.-Steve

 

[CRJDriver]

UND, What flight school do you know that pays up to 60K a year? I wanna instruct there FOREVER. Screw the airlines.:nana2:

Check out Airline Training Center Arizona in Phoenix, I talked to someone who used to instruct there, and he told me that the top of the pay scale is around $50K. International Flight Training Academy in Bakersfield, CA pays pretty well, too.