Scuba Diving Instructor Salary - How much do scuba instructors make?

A great video.
After years I do a refresher and was shocked at the low cost of the course and some dives afterwards. If you can fill the courses and trips then sure it works. Here they are not. There are more divecenter than grains of sand on the beach. No matter how good someone is, there are just too many. And even if the cost of living is bearable for Europe, it should be around 3000 euros a month. In any case, it's not much when you consider that the job depends on your health. You do it for a certain amount of time somewhere at one of the most beautiful diving spots in the world and then jump off. Or you find a place where you're no longer underwater every day.

🙏❤️‍🔥 I love you, Marcel and the fantastic team you work with! Your videos are priceless...

Do you need to finish high School

I work as a snorkel guide at Hurghada , Red sea
And I make like 15 to 25 € per day that is the average through high season and I always have that plan that I finish my diving course get the license and travel to dive In Europe, I can handle myself whatever the amount of money I may make at the beginning, here in Hurghada I do that commercial moves like bars commission, sales commission and those stuff and it works
I will be thankful if you do a video about trying to find a job in Europe for a foreign and how are the risks of that may go ?
Thank you

8 students is crazy. Way too many

Hi Marcel,
great and very informative video! Love diving since many years and i am also considering doing my instructor education soon. But the video gave me some thoughts now that u said that attidude is absolutly everything. More for example i am fine with earning less, but i am not the most extrovert superstar always positive and always joking person u told u actually need to be to accomplish this. Normally i am a bit introvert person. Maybe sometimes a bit quiet, but for sure i would try my very best to give customers the best day ever! i hope in my education I can grow with it and maybe get better and better the more i train. I mean nobody is perfect, right? Or do you think u either "have it" or not? Thanks a lot again and greetings from europe :)

In here it's a unique place, can I start here at South of Maldives. Can I pay my team a basic 3000 per month?

TLDR: $500/month to $4,000/month with a typical bell curve in between.

Thankyou!

Good instructors will make money bad instructors need to get out and find another career

Hi sir what is the minimum age of entry or maximum age to get the job pls assist

Thank you always for your very informative videos. This video helped me a lot just like the rest of your videoes I used on my IDC journey (skill videoes). I can only imagine with this friendly and open attitude that your students have a great experience.

Thanks for sharing all this information! You have an inspiring and positive attitude :)

Good salary instructor. I think that good commission salary per monthly. I trying to instructor.

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Excellent work on the video. I'm headed to the Philippines to do just this. Not sure about the business implications, I have been hesitating. You helped bring me clarity on the decision. Definitely its a go! Much appreciated!

Dankjewel marcel! Ik begin 10 november aan mijn dive master en heb er nu nog meer zin in! Leuk om te horen hoe jij je weg bent bewandelt en het motiveert mij om er positief in te gaan en meer te doen dat er van me verwacht wordt en het belangrijkste alle leerlingen en klanten een mooi avontuur te geven

I love that ending...😄😄

Hai🙂

I been wanting to be a dive instructor since a kid... I Just LOVE SCUBA.... but where I live in louisiana, most dive instructors work part-time as a side gig.. even I'm older now and have an awesome job... I still wanna become a dive instructor, and I'm not really worried about the money..🤔🤔 🤷‍♂️

I must say I like drones and I like scuba diving and there's only so much time

I Miss Thailand

What about Thailand. What is avg income for instructor in Thailand? Busy season and slow season?

How much money i can earn money for the time

Sounds like if you're making $20 an hour, you're lucky. That's not much, even if you're working 40 hours a week. Great if you're young and living a simple life, not going to pay a mortgage, car payment, child expenses, etc.
For most people, this amounts to a side gig, self-paying hobby.

Having said that, I almost took instructor training in my mid 20's, I should have, I would have worked for enough money to pay for beer, tacos, and a windowless shack near the beach on some island. I opted for a fairly successful business career, that has provided me with a very comfortable and fun life... however, 30 years later, I'm still second guessing that decision... beer, tacos and the beach are still my favorite things, lol!

hi bto....i neeed a scuba diving job....
.can u help me bro ....?plzzzz
what should i do ....
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i m already a lifeguard bt i want to go in diving ...
plxzz help me bro

I have been thinking a lot about this. What do you think should be (not is but should) the salary of a diving Instructor (in terms of local legal minimum wage) by comparing it to an other high-risk activity like parachute or others ?

Taking into account the amount of responsibility (you are responsible for your students' lives), the specialized Knowledge, the skills underwater that not everybody has, the skills as a specialized First Responder that every Divemaster should have.

Would not it be a good idea to increase the standards to make instructor slightly more selective and have less people available for DSD factories ?

Great video! Thanks!

Dude you are so out of touch 🤣 you are promoting the problem, while giving no thought to the solution.

Super Video and a lot of good Informations!
I just started to work as an instructor two month ago, did my PADI IDC just before Covid hits us all and was waiting for more than a year to find a job and now im finally working in maldives. I also used the ti e to do the Crossover to SSI so i have a lot bigger range of Dive Centres where i can find a job and i really start loving teaching diving to my students.
On top of you salary you can get a lot of Tips or some drinks at the Bar when you like talking to your students after your working time.
Hopefully this pandemic will end soon that the Dive Industry can restart again all over the World!
Thank you Marcel for this inforative Video and also for all Skill Circle Videos wich helps so many new Instructors during there IDCs. ✌🏼

That's a shame! Sorry, man, but I stop watching your video after you offered to promote a snorkeling trips, jet ski and so on.
Sorry again, but how about just to get a relevant salary for the dive instructor job? We are not an animation crew, we are dive professionals. And all of this extra sales rise down the quality. Scuba instructor is not a slave worker for a tourist industry.

Thank You! I have researched this question so many times.

I just became an instructor on March in Mexico and then I came home to Puerto Rico on April and I was denied opportunities (its male dominated here), I finally started building my website, went solo diving to a very shallow reef and took pictures, built a fb page, digital card, google ads and Airbnb and this summer I was extremely busy and even got to buy three tanks, 3 whole scuba kits, an I phone and a GoPro, etc… (since april) Also, I got a contract with a gap year school to give the DSD experience to their students. I’m a hair stylist since 12 years and now I do both and I love it. I don’t waste the money I earned on things other than scuba related.

Always great advice and inspiration Marcel! Hope to catch you in the next year or two ✌️

nice cup 😃

I really miss seeing this guy lol

Many dive affiliations, what to consider in a career as a dive instructor?

Good information 👌