Driving Instructor £20 per hour

I was having a conversation with some who said that teaching learner drivers is a very lucrative job since driving instructors earn £20 or more per hour, and since passing the UK practical test is getting harder, there must be a lot of work out there for them.



This wrong impression about what instructors earn is one of the reasons why red driving school's TV advert is so successfull in drawing unsuspecting members of the pubic into parting with thousands of pounds chasing a pipe dream of a new carreer looking to earn some easy £30,000 a year.

Driving instructors don't earn £20 per hour, even those with big school schools such as BSM, RED or AA for the following reasons.

1. While you might have paid £20 for a hour tuition session with the instructor, it would probably have taken an average of 15mins to get to your home and another 15mins to the next appointment, so it takes the driving instructor 1.5hrs to earn that £20.
2. The whole of the £20 fee is not wages, and this is what seems to mislead a lot of people by adverts such as those by the red driving school into taking up a course trying to become and ADI.
Out of that fee comes money for petrol, car insurance, road tax, maintenance, driving instructor marketing and other business expenses, so will be less than £10 for those 1.5hours of effort.

If you still think you want a job as an instructor, by all means go ahead and get quailfied. If you put in the hard work, you will make it.