Question: do skydiving instructors get paid well?
Answer: Instructors get paid by the jump -- not by the hour or salary, he said. Typical pay is $20 to $40 a jump, meaning that even those at the upper end of that range aren't likely to make much more than $20,000, based on 500 jumps in a year. Instructors can make a bit more if they also prepare parachutes or videotape jumps.