what's up guys welcome to our channel my
name is Sarah I'm door and we are part
of the team at Esalen limited where we
teach all things scuba diving today
we're gonna be talking about salary
salary new scuba diving as a
professional we know that most of you
have a lot of question about how much
money you will make
working as a dive master instructors so
here is some tips and recommendations to
see if you can make a life as a scuba
instructor so there are a few different
ways that you can get paid as a scuba
instructor so we're just gonna cover
each one in detail regardless of the way
that you get paid as a scuba instructor
you usually expect a salary between ten
and twenty thousand dollars our personal
experience one of the most common way to
get paid is having a basic salary that
depending of the market of the places
have really low salary with commissions
on top and when I use u.s. dollars as of
resonance normally the basic salary six
hundred nine hundred US dollars a month
then depending of if you are teaching
courses in fun divers you get one salary
of one commission on top or of course we
used to run a dive center in Mexico
Strikemaster fixed salary or Vickers
Commission on top of the fun diversity
so aside from a base salary you will
also usually get a commission her fun
divers so you'll get anywhere from $5 to
$7 per person per diet as recourses you
get paid an average of twenty to thirty
percent of the price of the course
normally they deduct the rights of their
materials the good thing about this
combo package of base salary and
commissions that you know that even
during slow season you're gonna have a
salary and enough money to live on we
personally really like this model and
think that it's the most sustainable and
the most conducive to creating a good
work environment among instructors yeah
within that is super good faith for what
the next option we have is early
commission-based so you'll find this in
places like Thailand like Hotel Zilla
BPI Tom places where you get high volume
of tourists and high volume of people
looking to take scuba courses the
Commission for those courses is
typically lower but you have such a high
volume of people and you get so many
courses all the time that it makes up
for the lower Commission these kinds of
places are great for making money during
high season but you tend to get these
really big groups in your courses this
can be a good situation for an
instructor with experience because they
know how to handle the larger groups and
they're able to move up quickly to
become a senior instructor senior
instructor is they wanted money so they
have some benefits on top of us our
instructor the benefits is that they
take the big groups means better
commissions so some places like China
but they can watch it there over the
courses I'm taking very low
isn't it what you get one speaking of
new instructors although it can be easy
to get a job in these places this
usually isn't ideal because you will
actually be low on the totem pole
forgetting courses so when I was on
Thailand I paid salary under different
between the dough and the prices almost
like like if in those days and I was
making around $400 the other thing about
this kind of environment is that you're
really pushed to sell the next course so
you'll get people who are doing their
open water and you're like all right
let's go straight into the advanced once
they finish the advanced they go
straight into rescue and all of a sudden
you have a Rescue Diver with 25 dives
maybe maybe less and that isn't really
great for our scuba diving community as
a whole
so Sarah was talking before about their
continuous education when you sell the
open water and a horse training camp and
into the rescue in many places to get
ocean formations for the important page
of courses up to that is something that
we like a lot especially because you
crash your student so you push them when
they are not ready to go to the next
step
and it's when we are starting sacrifice
safety safety and quality of the
training keeping with this theme of
selling selling is going to be a big
part of your life as a school bus
instructor unfortunately that's just the
name of the game in a lot of places and
one way that although the bonus can be a
nice extra right for the scuba
instructor the problem that we see is
within the dive team within the dive
center and relationships experience
salaries
all right so when he's talking about
service charge that's actually kind of
attacked on top of what people are
already paying for the rooms for the
restaurants for everything that they're
experiencing at the resort and so they
take that and split it amongst the
employees which is aside from any tips
that the clients the downside to working
in a place like that you know you're on
a private island social life is it's
something to really consider because
you're not going to have you know local
places to eat and people to hang out
with you're gonna have your co-workers
and so it takes a special person to the
end of the month salaries is a very
smooth dive in comedies excellent but
also on the other side to sign a
long-term contract they expect from you
to stay there for at least one year what
they pay for the flights
all right so finally on top of all of
that as it's a scuba instructor you can
also get commissions for your sales of
scuba equipment so that is usually apart
from any style of salary that you have
if you sell a mask or a BCD you get a
portion of the commission from that so
you know we don't like to focus on sales
when we're teaching our scuba
instructors we don't think that that's
something that we should focus on as few
instructors but the reality is that it
does help with building your salary if
you learn how to sell
keep there in people matter if it's on
your yeah and you're helping them
ultimately that's what we're aiming to
do when we're teaching when we're
selling we want to help people to have
the best experience that they can have
Wall Street diving and to do it in a
comfortable safe manner something to
consider with all of these numbers that
we've thrown around it might sounds a
little bit low the basic salary no but
you also have to consider that you're
usually living in countries where the
cost of living is quite low as well
something that I noticed coming to this
lifestyle is that you know the salary
and the cost of living actually balance
out to where I'm taking home more than I
would back home in the States which is
kind of shocking on the diving industry
you will hear really often that you
don't work as an instructor to make
money you do it because you love what
you do is your passion and I think that
it's wrong to say that because as an
instructor you take a lot of
responsibilities you left a lot of
things behind your family friends you're
working are in your country you need to
learn new languages and you will get to
pay what you deserve and that being said
we're not saying that you're going to be
a millionaire being a scuba instructor
but you can definitely make a life and
make a comfortable living doing this
amazing thing thanks for joining us
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