I'm thinking of becoming a driving instructor.

I see loads of adverts which point out the all the benefits of becoming an instructor, i.e. earn £700 week, flexibility etc but surely it can't all be that easy.

How much can you earn on a normal week (and i mean money you can take home)? etc

any people out there that can advise. Much appreciated

Another thread the same here http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=370155

Its definitely not as easy or as lucrative as they make out:D

You can also check out this forum for their thoughts http://www.ukdic.co.uk/phpBB3/index.php

Please take that advert with a large pinch of salt.

If you had a really good, easy moneymaking scheme would you share it with the general public?

I think the average cost of a driving lesson is between £10 - £15? Working up from that the income would be £370 - £562 for a 37 hour week.
To get an Income of £700 you would need to work 46 hours at £15.

There are lots of questions you need to research the answers to but most of this should be easy to find by searching the internet:

Outgoings
How much does it cost to buy/convert to dual control/rent a car? (google?)
How much fuel will you use? (estimate millage per average hour lesson, your driving from one lesson to another, multiply by number of hours)
Is the car tax the same as private use or more expensive? (DVLA)
How much is the insurance? (online quote website?)
What is the expected cost of maintenance per year? (given that the car will do many miles and have the wear and tear from being driven roughly)

Hopefully another driving instructor might be able to assist with some of the answers too.

Also worth asking how much "down time" there is between lessons. For example if you have a lesson booked in Hillsborough from 9-10 and your next lesson is in Dore you would need to allow time to move from one to the other which you are not earning income for.

As a complete guess I would think that to make £700 profit you would need to make an income of £930ish which would be between 62 and 93 hours?

the ads always made my instructor laugh ... earn £30k a year?? pity they dont tell you the insurance on the car will take up about a quarter of that alone!!

the ads always made my instructor laugh ... earn £30k a year?? pity they dont tell you the insurance on the car will take up about a quarter of that alone!!
Whilst I agree with the sentiment, where did you get the info about the car insurance from, because its complete rubbish?

Another thread about it here http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=361846

I think the average cost of a driving lesson is between £10 - £15?
And which cloud do you live on?

Threads merged. Please don't start multiple threads about the same thing.

This might also help

http://www.squidoo.com/driving_instructors

And which cloud do you live on?

I don't live on a cloud thanks - a quick google "sheffield driving lessons" results:

Bill Plant driving school 5 lessons for £56 (£11 each)
Mint driving school £18 per hour with discount for block booking (£16.20)
S7 Driver Training first 5 hours £50 (£10)
Ashley Knights £20.50 - 10 lessons £195 (£19.50)
Dan Arkle £230 for 10 (£23.00)
Corssroads first 5 lessons £60 (£12.00)

I ignored the links to other directory search sites. The average of the above is £16.28. Not a million miles out for a rough guess.

My earlier post was intended as a guide for Yaz to start researching some figures.

Fair comment. However, without wishing to get into an argument, as you are a 'business adviser', perhaps you should have looked past the special offers (which most of the above are) and given Yaz a true picture of what he/she could espect to charge.

Ignore. This was already covered elsewhere in thread.

It may be important to be aware that not all the hours worked bring in the same amount of income.

What percentage of your lessons are given at the discounted rate Saxon?

Would I be right in thinking that learners usually have somewhere between 15 and 30 lessons?

When I learned to drive the usual was 10 - 15 lessons and practice with parents but I think things have moved on a bit since then!

there is supposed to be a new law coming in that states you must have at least 40 lessons with an instructor . And to my knowledge the average price for a driving lesson is about £22 after deals and promos. Also I know an instructor that uses the new mini and his insurance is about £500 a year.

there is supposed to be a new law coming in that states you must have at least 40 lessons with an instructor

Before everyone panics, its not true. It is a proposal in a discussion document and if it goes the way that all other recent discussion documents have gone, it will never see the light of day.

However, it is true that most beginners need around the 40 hour mark anyway (at least) so it won't make that much difference if they do bring it in.