chironomidkraut
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i am definatly thinking of being a open water instructor, and was just wondering the amount they get paid, same with the assistant instructor, nobody really talks bout that!!
money for open water instructors
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Nobody talks about making a living as an AI because nobody can make a living as an AI! If you wanna be an instructor, don't expect to be sipping champagne and eating caviar too often...it's a hard living, especially in a non-vacation destination. Most instructors I know do it as a part-time job and have day-jobs that they use to make their livings. If you can make it to the tropics where the cost of living is dirt cheap and you get tipped US/Canadian dollars or euros, you can live comfortably. BUT as a DM/Instructor you need to renew your certification annually and pay for professional insurance, most instructors/DMs are lucky to break even after these financial bombs...trust me.
Its a lifestlye, not a living.
Its a lifestlye, not a living.
Good question, what are people making these days that are fulltime Instructors?
At my husband's shop, instructors get $50 per student for an OW class. Everybody else works for free.
Despite that, we had more staff than students for the OW dives yesterday!
Despite that, we had more staff than students for the OW dives yesterday!
Best way to make $1,000,000 as a Scuba Instructor is to start with $2,000,000
Atomic_Diver
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Is it better to work at a Dive Shop, or be a self employed instructor? What do self employed instructors make in these Catagories: Self Employed Course Director, Self Employed Full Technical Instructor, Self Employed Cave, and Wreck Instructor, and being a self employed Instructor for Everything listed above?...
24,000 to start is pretty good. Too many will work for free, keeps wages low for us all. I've always refused to use my retirement to supplement someone else's business.
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Sounds like the world of professional musicians. It's those guys who do it for lower than scale and even volunteer at times. "Because making music is fun and rewarding, you must just love to do it". A job is a job and it's work, or one would not get paid. No rule that it can't be fun at times as well, though.
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chironomidkraut
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i already help out with the scuba classes for free, i have a full time job already but was thinking of making some extra $$$$$..... its a labour of love so why not get paid for it right......... and for the person who said $50 per student, is that for each of the 5 class and pool sesions or is that for the whole course, cause that doesn't seem like very much
As for Assistant Instructors; who decides to be an AI? The only AI certs I have ever heard of were; for Instructor Candidates that for whatever reason did not pass the IDC/IE or an IDC assisting Master Instructor Candidate needed AI certs for their own advancement and paid the fee for the AI certs of OWSI's who did not really need AI because they did pass the IDC/IE. Flunkies or red herrings; the Assistant Instructor level should not exist. Since they should not exist, the typical pay for AI is nothing.
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