Salaries vary. "I would say that depending on the hours someone puts in,
you're looking at $18,000 to $25,000," says Keith Russell. He operates a training
school in Durham, North Carolina.
Dorothy Wright owns a driving school. She says her company pays new instructors
$8 per hour, with increases to $11.50.
Cynthia Willoughby is the assistant to the president of the Driving School
Association of the Americas. "It's only going to get tougher to become licensed
to drive," she says. "So we expect a lot of growth because there's a real
need for what we do."
"I think there's a lot of consolidation going on," says Russell. "There
are a lot of changes in laws in this country, some of which are very beneficial
and some of which are not. Some [add to] business and some deter it for a
while."
Earnings and employment information from the U.S. Department of Labor is
not available for this field at this time.