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How much do you earn??
Hi everyone. I am a flying instructor in NZ, working 5 days and averaging about 12 flying hours a week plus about the same theory/briefing hours. I'm earning around $220 a week which equates to about $10k-$12k a year. I don't get a retainer or any sick/holiday pay. I believe I could earn more overseas... can anybody help me out by letting me know what they earn??? Especially any Australian instructors as I'm thinking of moving there. Thanks so much! Sarah x
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I believe in the UK FI's are doing it for nothing now in many cases - not good news. In other words it has ceased to be a professional job and is now a means of hour building only.
Look for standards to drop from now on. Kind regards Exeng |
Not quite nothing, but close to it.
It does vary but in the UK most schools pay around £15-£20 per hour based on flight time only for PPL training. Some pay a small retainer but most don't. |
How much do you earn??
£25-£30 per flying hour, no retainer. Northern UK.
Particularly bad week maybe 0-4 hours, good can be upwards of 20. |
£25 per hour (t/o to l/d + 0.2). £20 when restricted, £30 for aerobatics. No retainer.
South East UK |
Working one day per week, I was earning around £300 per month, give or take.
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At an ATO in Spain, pay was €800 per month net, full time. Went to the US and net around $2000 to $3000 depending on weather and student load.
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Thanks so much for all of your help! It's good to gauge the amount people are earning & figure out where to next in terms of employment. I think I'll try for Aus.. seems they get about three times the money we get here in NZ.
Thanks again!:ok: |
$15-23 per hour (+ 0,2 for briefing at $17, I think..?) depending on your qualifications (Basic, Instrument, ME instr etc.). All gross. No guaranteed hours. Salary dependent on student load. Weather usually no problem in SoCal. At best I could be doing $3000 per month. Less fortunate guys were making less than ends meet.
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UK Midlands: £15/f.hr for a school, £150/on-site-day freelance. Couldn't live on it, but it pays enough to justify the time off the more lucrative day job, along with how much I enjoy instructing.
G |
I would suggest that how much youEARN
and how much you are PAID are two very different questions, with two very different answers. :hmm: (Thinking here of all the fat-cats on the various gravy-trains..Pilots earn considerably more than their pay, IMHO. The "system" relies on their love of Aviation....in effect, they payapremium to be allowed to fly. I don't see a change anytime soon!. |
Originally Posted by cockney steve
(Post 8543395)
I would suggest that how much youEARN
and how much you are PAID are two very different questions, with two very different answers. :hmm: (Thinking here of all the fat-cats on the various gravy-trains..Pilots earn considerably more than their pay, IMHO. The "system" relies on their love of Aviation....in effect, they payapremium to be allowed to fly. I don't see a change anytime soon!. We all ultimately earn what we get paid, and that's whatever the market will bear. The system needs everybody from the cleaner to the MD - or it would dispense with the dead wood. G |
I work as a Full-Time instructor in Aus, and it's more than enough for a single person without kids to live on. Fairly easy lifestyle although you are expected to earn your keep. Good hours in safe aircraft.
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cockney steve,
You're confusing two different definitions of 'earn'. You earn a salary/wage but can also earn a reputation for something. What you earn or what you get paid are the same thing in respect of remuneration. We might all think we deserve more than we get but, as Genghis points out, market forces and supply/demand dictate the bottom line. |
As a senior helicopter instructor, up to $145k per year.
Junior Kiwi helicopter instructors are around $65 - 85k, depending on quals. Fixed wing? Dime a dozen. |
As Dr Johnson said: "Do it for honour or profit, or not at all"
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Originally Posted by Heston
(Post 8556047)
As Dr Johnson said: "Do it for honour or profit, or not at all"
G |
Work at a few different schools so between £15-£30 an hour, no retainer anywhere over 25k last year but full time.
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Originally Posted by Cfsops
(Post 8591897)
Sarah
I am currently looking for CFI/Head of Training as my current chap is retiring Sadly there is no retainer but £25 per flying hour and depending on the time of year and weather average 45 hrs p/mth that works out at approx £1125 p/mth Also if you become my ground examiner you get £20 for every exam taken (as you will invigilate and mark them) and also get paid £25 per hr when students fly solo If you are interested contact me [email protected] We are at Cotswold Airport in the Cotswolds region near Gloucester Ground school is not very popular here in the UK as everyone self studies to save money But ground school tuition would pay you £20 per hr too Somebody doing HoT well, is going to have to put significant effort into that - maintaining documents, mentoring newer instructors, meetings with the CAA.... I'd expect them to be paid for it. And paying a fully qualified instructor (even without the Chief) under £14k.pa: hardly surprising that very few people of quality want to stay in instructing. G |
I'd rather not specify where, but the place where I did my PPL at had to look for a new CFI/HoT a couple of years ago and perhaps they are paying over the odds but they were offering over £35k per year with additional pay for longer days and instrument/night instruction. I should point out that this was not a commercial school but did PPL IMC and Night only. They still struggled to get someone suitable.
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