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Freelance Instructing. What to Charge?

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dueguard1

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I'm kind of new to the whole Freelance, or, better yet instructing Game .................What's a Good rate to charge for doing Freeelance instructing by the hour (NYC Area)..........Not trying to get rich, just trying to get, and keep a good supply of students............???/
 
Unwritten rule at FRG is that no CFI works for less than $35/ hour flight and ground. Its been working well for the last few years.
 
We don't have an FBO at my local airport, so everyone here is freelance.

Unfortunately, everyone here charges $25 so that's the status quo at our field.
 
Don't feel bad

I make $20 an hour/flight and $10 an hour/ground. Of course out here in Montucky we don't hardly use money, we just eat animals.
 
User997 said:
We don't have an FBO at my local airport, so everyone here is freelance.

Unfortunately, everyone here charges $25 so that's the status quo at our field.

**CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED** the status quo. If you're a good instructor they'll pay to fly with you.
 
Ralgha said:
**CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED** the status quo. If you're a good instructor they'll pay to fly with you.

You'd think so, but not at my little airport. And I'm the only one that doesn't have a "day job" and is available anytime of the day when I'm not out on a trip.

Not enough available students, too many instructors = not a good situation!
 
MTpilot said:
I make $20 an hour/flight and $10 an hour/ground. Of course out here in Montucky we don't hardly use money, we just eat animals.
heh heh heh...
 
Ralgha said:
**CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED** the status quo. If you're a good instructor they'll pay to fly with you.

No we won't.
 
"Unwritten rule at FRG is that no CFI works for less than $35/ hour flight and ground."

Good for you guys- stick to your guns. I was $40-45 an hour flight *and* ground in the East SF Bay Area and $60 an hour was not uncomon out there in Silicon valley- flight *and* ground. It nets you fewer students but the same income amd tons more time off. Time building for peanuts is the main downfall of the instructing profession but it doesn't have to be that way. Just do your homework, prepare for lessons and give your all to your clients, and don't take crap from the occasional guy who makes a stink about being charged for ground etc. (I had one guy, an FSS specialist who drove a Jag, complain about me charging him ground for his checkout- I stuck it out though and never saw him again, which was fine by me.)

I know that those sort of fees won't wash in sparse areas but I do wish instructors would stop treating themselves like dirt, when the training and responsibility is far beyond musical instrument, racket sport, or ski instructors who make 2-5x the going rates for flight instructors at most schools.

In the airline industry it was a step backwards, as the time you are the busiest (turns on the ground) you are not getting a dime, or $1.50 an hour per diem or something. One reason of many why if I "end up" instructing again I will be proud, not ashamed.
 
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