CFI pay

[CFIse]

I know the routine, you pay your dues and you may get the good students and other perks for putting up with the abuse, then move on as soon as you can. Is there a loophole that allows flight schools legally to pay their employess less than minimum wage? Someone mentioned "professional status", like doctors during residency being paid $24k and expected to work 80 hours a week. If I could make $24k it would not be so bad, I wont make half that at this pace.

Is there a legal loophole that allows this indentured servitude or is it just a matter of putting up with it to get your time?

If you're an employee and you are required to be at work for those hours then you must be paid minimum wage (with a few exceptions none of which cover CFIs). Check your state and federal guidelines, but normally it's based on the period of a week.

Is it worth the trouble of getting it fixed - probably not. Either your boss knows they are breaking the law and doesn't care, or doesn't know. I guess on the off chance they don't know you could sit down and discuss it with them with actual numbers to support your position - but I wouldn't expect anybody to be happy about it - I know my boss wasn't when I brought it up (but he did agree to keep paying the weekly payment to the CFIs .

 

[stupidwork]

why do you assume that everyone here works for DCA. we know you hate DCA because you were forced to quit or fired or whatever....give it a rest no one brought up DCA at the begining of the thread you did. No one here cares what you think...... i think you need more than anger management.....
psycho therapy maybe?

 

[stupidwork]

how else do you suggest I buld my time??? do you think you could stop being a prick for two seconds and actually offer some advise on what else we could do instead of being a cfi.(not that id take advise from you but it would be nice to see you try)

 

[mddg3581]

I think regardless of the thread or subject Buffet brings in DCA. I do not think he is able to control that part of his brain. There are alot of positives to DCA but thanks to Buffets opinions and experiences he continues to save the new flight students from ever making that terrible mistake of actually going there. Personally whatever job you have sounds pretty cool so be humble for that. Try not to be so insulting to the thousands of other people who are still doing the CFI thing. We are all trying to make an honest living putting in our dues day to day.. Get off your high horse and relax about everybody else who are not currently following in your foot steps. People are still going to attend DCA, FS, ATP. True DCA is quite expensive but your threads are really starting to make you look like an asshole!!

 

[stupidwork]

every one has problems with the flight school they went to.... i had problems with mine as well. his problems with DCA were most likely created by him not DCA.
I knew someone with the same attitude buffettck has. all he could talk about was how much money it was costing him and how the pay was crap and how they treated him like sh!t. these problems were created by him though... he screwed around and was very unprofesional so it took him twice as long to get through the program and twice the money. but of course it wasnt his fault...yeah right....its all what you make of it. buffettck you made the choice to go to DCA you need to live with that choice.... you also made the choice to leave so leave it alone....your opinion is so biased it isnt going to help any one deciding where to go.
I didnt like the flight school i went to either but i left with a degree and all my ratings. the difference is i dont feel the need to continually bitch about how sucky they were because i made the choice to leave.
people ask me what i thought of my school, i tell them i didnt like it and why i i didnt like it but go check it out and make your own mind up.

 

[mddg3581]

You sit at home on flight info, I sit at work on flight info. "So I said..GIBRONE"

 

[mddg3581]

I suggest you build your time by getting off your ass and coming to work

 

[stupidwork]

hahaha....the weather must suck where your at too. "When in Rome"

 

[stupidwork]

college food of the poor???? all college students are poor lawyers doctors enginers flight students.... now you have a problem with ramen... did you have a tramatic experiance when you were a kid or something... and dont say its DCAs fault loser

 

[stupidwork]

wrong.... t storms and 40 kt winds... ok super pilot would you go fly?