How much did/do you make as a CFI?

[gkrangers]

Feel free to move this, but I thought this section might be approriate due to the amount of young pilots who have recent CFI experience.

How much do or did you make as a CFI? What part of the country?

I'll be starting this summer in New Jersey, and haven't asked about the terms yet. But if the pay is outrageously low..they can keep the flight time...I'll work at Shopright.

 

[SEVEN]

At Pontiac MI KPTK....I started out at $16 an hour.....as Chief Instructor I was making around $20 an hour.

 

[othello]

PAE Everett WA

Started cfi 12$hr, Ended CFII/MEI 1.5 years later 18$HR

No bennis, i.e. health, sick pay, paid vacation, 401. nothing

paid per block HR + ground time.

 

[indianboy7]

I made 14 bucks an hour with full benefits.......i think they charged us 10 bucks a month for medical, but the rest was paid for.......made 29K the last year I instructed...

 

[Airway]

There's only one rate for CFIs at my school (no change with "seniority").
$24.00/hr. But we don't get much traffic, so it about evens out.

 

[Butters]

Slightly less than I made giving hand jobs for cash. Ah, the good old days......

 

[JessMan]

Anywhere from 14-20 bucks an hour in college-GFK and then in PTK, never did any better than 18,000 a year.

 

[bender]

Averaged around $1150 flying around 50-60 hours per month.

 

[UZAInstructor]

Since I'm a CFII, $20/hr. Our CFI's make $15/hr. My tax form for this past year shows just over $20k.

 

[flyboydk]

I made $27k salary plus benefits at my last instructing job in AZ. It was a pretty good instructing job.