How much do PPL instructors get paid?

[benjamin.dordoigne]

Hi there,

I am new here so I am sorry if I have placed this is the wrong place, I would like to be an instructor and would like to know the pay scale?

Many thanks,

Ben.

[Whirlygig]

About £20/30 per flying hour; not working hour i.e. you don't get paid for pre- or post-flight briefing.

Cheers

Whirls

[jez d]

Add to that the fact that 900 hours is pretty much the maximum any PPL instructor can hope to achieve in the UK in a year and you can see why they're not all driving Ferraris.

Regards, jez

[maximus610]

What about the wage in US?

[adverse-bump]

6 days a week, 0830 - 1630

£17000 pa

[Mickey Kaye]

17000 per annum you must be joking.

14.85 per hour unrestricted

17.00 per hour unrestricted/IMC

Just

[Mickey Kaye]

17000 per annum you must be joking.

14.85 per hour unrestricted

17.00 per hour unrestricted/IMC

No retainer

Just to show you how hte wage has moved with the times. My first instructor job in 1992 paid me 15 quid an hour when I was a lowly AFI and it went up 20 quid for IMC training.

So i'm earning less today than i did 15 years ago!

[benjamin.dordoigne]

That seems like peanuts? I have just graduated from uni with a degree in Psychology (zzzzzzz) and want to become a instructor - but maybe I should just hour build and make more money?

[adverse-bump]

no-body wants to be a PPL instructor!

its a good stepping stone if you want to go on to airlines, or CPL/IR instructing.

and the 17000k a year was 18 months ago. and there are still people at the school on that.

[OneIn60rule]

This depends on two things.

Are you going per hour basis or salary per month?

The pros of per hour, you only work when you have to.

The cons, if there's not much flying.. that's all you get. (i.e. you did 10 flights that month)


If you manage to get salaried you'll be doing a lot more than just instructing and you'll be at work no matter what the weather.

Things you'll be expected to do if there's no work at the moment>

Cleaning airplanes ranging from the windshield to the entire aircraft to helping depanel and repanel as well as fix aircraft (whilst under supervision)-
cleaning floors, windows, polishing furniture, repainting areas/walls.



For this per annum 15k

[benjamin.dordoigne]

Really, is this it? 15K. Maybe I should look to do something different!

[Wee Weasley Welshman]

Hell son, in the last millenium I knew that flying instructors were paid peanuts. Then I became on and proved it on £10 an hour airborne - plus £10 a day retainer. And we really did think we were lucky.

At the moment there are at LEAST 300 guys who have done an FI rating in the last year and NOBODY has got a non instructing job for months now. If I was a flying school owner (Dr Evil) I'd be offering you work for free in exchange for hours in your logbook. Certainly by next Spring that will be the situation.


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