Flight instructors
12 openings, read from the employers' own websites. Flight instructors teach at the schools, clubs and colleges on this site, most of them building hours toward an airline or corporate seat; pay is by the flight hour or the lesson at most schools and salaried at the larger academies. The survey counts instructors among commercial pilots, so the figure below is the spread for commercial pilots as a whole.
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What it pays Commercial pilots (the survey counts flight instructors among them) · the Bureau of Labor Statistics' wage survey,
- Median a year
- $123,220
- Employed, nationally
- 47,630
National figures for the occupation as the survey defines it (code 53-2012); an opening's own pay, where the employer states it, is shown on its page. The survey's page.
Sources: the employers' own websites and their hiring systems' public boards; pay: the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025.