How much does a Jeet Kune Do Instructor make?

Question

Because one day i want to become a full-time Sifu and teach students to learn Jun Fan Gung Fu. But i also need the income to support myself (and maybe a family) one day.

Also, i am currently a white belt in JKD, and yes i know that there is no classification in JKD, but the school i go to (NuBreed) happens to be from Dan Inosanto lineage school, its even on Dan's site.

What i'm about to ask is that, this school has an Instructors class, and is it ok for me to become an a Sifu there, and not move to california?

Yeah its kind of a mouthfull i typed, but i'm really curious.

Answer 1

if you are only a white belt you ahy are you already thinking about starting your own dojo. this is why McDojos open up

Answer 2

Being the best martial arts instructor in the world doesn't mean you'll make even a dime off of it.  If you want to be a martial arts instructor study martial arts, if you want to make money study money.  And yes you can do both but you have to understand that they are different things.  Learn one will help you be better at the other and someday you might bridge them....but don't learn business habits from your instructor just because they are good teachers...find someone well off money wise that you can study off of.....

and people who teach something that people appreciate definitely deserve to get paid...don't worry about this mcdojo talk...some awesome schools make no money and vice versa.  

Lastly if you want to be paid well pay your instructor well

Answer 3

It really depends on the business you work for, or the one you own.

There are very few paid full time instructors in any martial art.

For example, the school I go to has about 250 students.  We have 3 kids classes 5 days a week and 4 adult classes 5 days a week, we also have cardio kickboxing classes 4 days, yoga 2 days and then we have a kids, adult, family and sparring on Satuday for 4 more classes.  That is 30 classes offered per week (not to mention the black belts only class on Sunday's).  We have one owner, and several instructors (usually at least two black belts per class) that teach.  Most of them are paid nothing, but they don't the tuition.  It's more of volunteer thing and they get a few perks, but no hard cash.

Let's say you get your own school.  The more students you have, the more money you make.

James