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you get paid for the sessions you train and it can be around $15-20, depending on experience. if your schedule is not back to back, then your dead hours are unpaid. some gyms will have floor time which you do evaluations etc but that's minimum wage for the most part. if you don't want to go independent, that's what you are looking at.

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I get $45.00 per hour ... the gym gets $15.00 so in total customer pays $60.00. If you think that's too rich .... well i have a 3 week waiting list of people who want my time . Supply versus demand. so it depends where you live as to what you can get away with as far as a fee.

at 24 Hour Fitness the pay works like this... $7 flat rate every hour. now each session you get paid a certain percentage based on the number of certs you have. If you have one cert you get paid like 7%, two certs like 10% etc and that's of the total package you sell the client.

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in NYC, top trainers get close to 90$ an hour. other locations charge 40$ an hour

My gym pays an hourly rate for doing the free orientations. That's how you sell. The hourly rate is $8-12/hr depending on how many certs you have. Then when you sell you get 10% of the contract value at the end of the month. (if someone buys $1000 in training you get $100 at the end of the month). Then when you train that person you get:

30% 1 cert
35% 2 certs
40% 3 certs
45% 4 or more certs

Most of our hourly rates are $55-75 so you get whatever your % is of that.

In Central Illinois, I work for two community fitness centers. One charges around $50 an hour with $20 going to the trainer and the other is $40 per hour with $28 for the trainer.

I get $40 for a half hour and $75 for a full hour.

gym usually takes a cut, or a big cut that is...i got $60 an hour...gym took $40, leaving $20 which is still $20 bucks an hour

The gym I'm at takes 60%, you get 40%, obviously better if you can do it on your own.

I charge between $40-$50 per hour for a session. I pay the gym 15%. After taxes I keep about 60%. But you can do a lot better doing in home training or corporate fitness training.

Some trainers are worth $100 plus an hour, and some are only worth minimum wage... Depends on what you can contribute to your clients life.

When I was working at the last gym, I was being paid about $20 an hour and I didn't know anything, but I looked like a personal trainer. I decided to start studying, and the next thing I know I can blow doctors minds with some of the stuff I know. I will be charging $30 an hour to any gym that I work at, and $50-75 an hour for my personal clients very shortly here.

There is something to be said about a trainer that knows enough not to overload the body with the wrong stuff (I am referring to everything from nutrition to mechanical stress). Clients want tid bits of information that they can USE, and put into Practice. Immediately. resistance Training. Posture, assess their posture, then in a gentle way explain it to them, then show them how to correct it, FIRST by showing them the muscles with an anatomical picture, then with exercises. Explain breathing patterns, and blood pressure responses. (explain what blood pressure means if you have to) Cardiovascular, explain what it means to lower your resting heart rate, and how that reduces the stress put on the heart. Then, once they understand that a lower heart rate at any given amount of workload is good, then explain to them how metabolism works at the different levels of workload, explain to them how to figure out their target heart rate (If you are worth a as a trainer you won't use the % of heart rate max method, you will use the VO2R or HRR method)... Explaining that a lower resting heart rate, and lower overall heart rate changes your metabolism so that you have to go off how much reserve ability you have...

Moving onto nutrition, the most important thing is not avoiding carbs or taking protein, it is learning about the different types of fats, and how they affect you, then learning about blood sugar control (even in a healthy kid it is important to start controlling cholesterol and blood sugar so they don't end up a sick adult, we aren't suppose to have to take prescriptions for metabolic at the young age of 60. A good personal trainer finds out about physically active hobbies, interest that might be incorporated into the training program to keep their interest... So, my point is, some trainers are worth $100 plus an hour, and some are only worth minimum wage... Depends on what you can contribute to your clients life.

I train in Florida at a gym and charge $50 per session and keep 70% of that. Translates to over $40K per year.

I run my own business and do in-home appointments and do not charge for driving time, and I have to pay for my own gas, but other than that I keep all the money I charge which is generally $70-$90 per hour long session. I've been a trainer for 3 years and make over $60,000.

I work full-time for Bally's in Alexandria, Virginia and charge between $74-80/hr and get to keep $43 of it but with no extra commission. Sometimes we get bonuses. I have been very fortunate to accumulate over 30 steady clients over the last 5 years and this year I expect to make just over 100k depending on how much vacation I take and how much it slows down in the summer.

Upstate NY gyms are terrible in what they pay. The most I've heard of is about $20.00 per hour.

I work for a gym and train private clients at their homes. This has been working out well for me with a decent salary and benefits at the gym as well as home training which is a extra income. Overall I pull about $65,000 per year.