Super CFI Pay?

Under that is says...IMPORTANT: Your pay can be dramatically affected by compensable factors such as employer size, industry, employee credentials, years of experience and others.

Not that I think the number has any bearing in reality whatsoever I just find it amusing for them to have that disclaimer.
 
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Job Description

Flight Instructor:

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.

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it's still funny!
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Does anyone know of ANYWHERE that would pay this much for a Flight Instructor? I'd quit my day job in the navy (some how) to get paid this much!
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HA!

That calculation was most like done by some computer that goes in and asks what the average payrate is for a CFI. I am making $15/hr here in SLC. I took home about $400 for my last two week pay period though. It all depends on how many hours you work. Not only that, but working at a 141 school means tons of paperwork. You don't get paid for the paperwork.
 
Working backwards, $68,000 is about $1,300/week, divided by 40 (avg hours for a 9-5 job) equals about $30/hr.

Lazy writer called the local flight school, asked what it costs for a CFI per hour and did a bunch of incorrect math and unresearched assumptions.
 
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Working backwards, $68,000 is about $1,300/week, divided by 40 (avg hours for a 9-5 job) equals about $30/hr.

Lazy writer called the local flight school, asked what it costs for a CFI per hour and did a bunch of incorrect math and unresearched assumptions.

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Sounds 'bout right... I wonder how much I could get paid to be a really horrible web writer?
 
I think they also factor in 121 and 135 Check Airman and Designated Examiners when they do the calculations.
 
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I think they also factor in 121 and 135 Check Airman and Designated Examiners when they do the calculations.

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Probably. My 135 ride cost the company $500. Took about 2 hrs. of the examiner's time. He does a couple a day on a full-time basis, travelling all over the country (specializes in King Airs and Sabreliners, but does others too I guess). Not bad $$$. I dunno who you do your checkrides with, jergar...but perhaps you know him.
 
The median total compensation including benefits for a typical Flight Instructor in the United States is $106,495

Huh!?
 
You COULD get paid $30/hr. If you freelance and find someone willing to pay that. Then again, it would probably come out to the same paycheck in the end unless you had a boat load of students lined up.
 
No no no. Not like a finder's fee. If you freelance CFI it. There's a guy around here that charges $30/hr, and he keeps all of it. I wish I could get paid for finding students. There's about 5 rampers already hitting me up.
 
Yeah I'm saying if you put an hour into finding students, be it fliers or ads, you make absouletely zip.

Actually there is a local cfi who charges $50... he does it for a living but I have a feeling he doesn't get paid for 'time off' like the site says
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He is a good guy; people are willing to pay more for better service (or the perception of it).

Just look at student pilots paying 100+/hr for a new 172 with moving map GPS and all that when they really need to learn the basics - which can be done for a lot less.

Another local place charges students more than 40/hr for primary instruction, not sure how much the cfi actually gets though.
 
Great amount of money for a CFI. Isn't this more then what the regionals pays?
 
[quoteProbably. My 135 ride cost the company $500.

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Luckly your company paid for that...we can only hope.
 
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Dude, for $50 he better be the best CFI in the country.

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I charge $55 per hour for my time. Of course I only see $14 of that.
 
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Great amount of money for a CFI. Isn't this more then what the regionals pays?

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BRIAN! I hope that was sarchasm
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CFI's don't make NEARLY that much... if you work your tail off 7 days a weeks and have a full load of students all day every day and you never get weathered out or have any unplanned sicknesses or anything, you MIGHT squeek out 30 K a year... but highly unlikely...
 
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