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Originally Posted by Blackhawk  At many schools you can make more. Figure in at least an hour of ground instruction for each hour of flight time and you are making $40,000/year. Again, not bad for a 172. |
Uhh, yeah. $40k/yr as a CFI is pretty tough to come buy. In fact I would wager if you are a CFI making >$30,000/yr you are in the top 5% of all instructors in the country.
If I were to guess, the "average" CFI would make an annualized $16,000/yr. Some make more, some make less.
$20/hr as a CFI isn't bad if you are a W-2 employee. If you're a contract CFI then that's low, because you've gotta cover advertising, insurance, etc.
Oh, and to add, most of the better paying CFI jobs (ie Academy jobs) require dual given, meaning you can't just walk into them right off the bat.