Instructor pay

[pinned31]

How much do stand-up/ boxing/ mma trainers generally get paid? Are they paid on a sliding scale? more students equals more pay?

[bardley99]

Originally Posted by pinned31

How much do stand-up/ boxing/ mma trainers generally get paid? Are they paid on a sliding scale? more students equals more pay?

It is like most positions in the world. It depends on who the instructor is. what that person brings to the table. Who the owner of the school is and what they offer. What the instructor agrees to and what the school agrees to.

There is an instructor at my school (BJJ not striking) who is a purple belt that basically just gets to train with the black belt (owner/instructor) for free in return for teaching the white belts. But he makes money off of talking his students into doing private lessons. He still has to work a day job but he also getting some good teaching experience. Plus he made a DVD that I bought.

[pinned31]

Okay let me rephrase the question have much does an average BJJ Black belt ( no major championships, not outrageously known, but very skilled) or (a stand-up coach who has experience fighting professionally and has good skills).....classes are two, one hours classes a day for 5 days a week, what kind of estimate are we considering? Also what about the sliding scale factor is this practiced in the business at all?

[NoCleverName]

There is no real concrete answer to your question. It depends on the area you teach in, the school you teach at, and what you're trying to accomplish. Some people try just to earn enough to run the school. Others do it all on a volunteer basis just to pass on their knowledge to others (although this is pretty rare outside of the boxing community). The majority try to make money and it depends on the amount of overhead, number of students, etc. as to how much profit they can make. Typically if you are an instructor at someone elses school you are not going to make much money but the potential to make a decent living is there if you own your own school. So in summary, it depends.

[PalatialGabe]

Mine gets $100 a sesh, that's for personal training, if that's what you're asking. That may be ballpark, but some bigger named fighters come by for Muay Thai, so he might be charging more.

[ambertch]

You typically will not get a separation between gym owner and trainer unless we're talking about a huge camp like ATT or something. Typically with local fight gyms, the owner will be the trainer and he collects gym memberships, while having his fighters (who make nothing or very little from fight purses) teach classes to pay their training fees.

At one of my gyms which has grown larger in the last few years, the owner has hired a couple full time trainers who have a fairly meager stipend, but are allowed to use the facilities to conduct privates for $50, 60, etc./hour to make up the bulk of their income.



Ideally the way to make good money as a well known fighter is to teach only a fighter training class yourself, have your fighters teach the regular classes, and try to schedule as many privates as you can.

[mjw1]

I don't think trainers really make a lot of money but they usually do get a decent amount of chicks....

[pinned31]

I guess I'm asking since I'm opening a MMA gym what would be reasonable to offer a top brown or new black belt for 10-15 hours of instruction per week, it's a new facility that would have a low amount of students in the class roughly 10