Join the winning team
LDC is probably the fastest-growing national driving school in the UK today.
The innovative way in which we work with our driving instructors along with the unique LD driving tuition system and state-of-the-art driver training resources for learner drivers have helped to make LDC one of the most successful driving schools in the UK today. You could share in our success and be earning a good income plus benefiting from a car of your choice once you had successfully completed the LDC driving instructor training course. You decide when and where you work, so the hours are very flexible and the smile from one of your pupils who have just passed the test provides real job satisfaction.
Driving instructor income and job satisfaction
LDC instructors who do a normal working week (i.e. 40 lessons per week) and take the average time off for holidays can expect to earn between £25,000 and £40,000 per annum after meeting all business and car expenses, depending upon the level of support they need, the local lesson rate and the type of training being provided. Of course, if you work longer hours, your rewards can be substantially higher.
Whilst pay is very important, the biggest reward comes from knowing that what you are doing is more than just a job - you are doing something that helps enrich people’s lives and adds to their safety and security. The smile from a learner who has just passed the test provides the ultimate in job satisfaction.
How we work together
We provide you with the means to earn money directly from your pupils and you in turn pay us. This method of operating is often referred to as a job franchise. All the other major driving schools in the UK operate in this manner (e.g. BSM, the AA etc.). Typically a large weekly fee of between £200 and £300 per week is paid for the provision of a car and pupils. This type of set up can potentially leave you out of pocket if insufficient work is provided. However, this doesn't happen with LDC because of the innovative way in which we work with our instructors.
We only charge a small weekly fee of £30 with all other services being optional. This ensures you only pay for what you need and that charges for optional services have to be very competitive to keep your custom. Our main source of income is generated through the provision of pupils to our instructors. In short, we obtain a commission based on the pupil fees we collect on your behalf. Thus you cannot be out of pocket because at the same time we request our commission we provide you with the pupil fees for the work done, a much fairer system.
We also provide you with the means and know-how to generate your own pupils. In this regard we are quite unique. No charges are made for pupils that are self-generated. Therefore, the more pupils you obtain for yourself, the more you earn and the less you pay to us. Within just a few months the majority of our instructors are able to self-generate a large proportion of their own pupils from referrals alone thus avoiding pupil commission charges. This is one of the reasons why we can offer such an incredible value-for-money franchise package and why very few instructors’ leave once joined.
With regards to the car, you can either rent or buy a driving school car from us at a subsidized rate (up to 30% discount), or use your own car (if suitable) - the choice is yours. Thus you can be assured of keeping your car costs to a minimum. Also unique to LDC is the option to choose the type of car you want to drive. Any car that you do obtain will have your own contact details incorporated into the standard LDC car livery to help you generate even more of your own pupils and thus reduce your costs still further. No wonder we can claim to offer the highest earnings potential of any Driving School franchise.
An example of potential earnings
LDC instructors who carry out 40 lessons per week, who take 4 weeks off for holidays per year and who charge our minimum recommended rate of £20 per lesson (lesson prices vary from area to area), can expect to earn the following per week after meeting all business and car expenses:
WEEKLY GROSS INCOME
40 lessons at £20 each £800
WEEKLY EXPENDITURE
Car Rental / Insurance |
£88 |
Fuel |
£80 |
Franchise Fee |
£30 |
* Pupil Generation Fee |
£70 |
Total Expenditure |
£268 |
PRE TAX EARNINGS |
£532 |
The above is equivalent to an annual salary of £25,064 plus a car. However, because you are self-employed you will make certain tax savings, which will enable you to keep more of the money you, earn (up to 20% more). If you choose to buy rather than rent a driving school car your earnings would potentially increase by a further £1,500 per year. In addition, as you start to generate your own pupils your earnings will increase as the pupil fees reduce, so rewarding you for a job well done!!
* The pupil generation fees illustrated assume two pupils are required per week, one having weekly lessons and one a block booking of twelve lessons paid in advance. On average, you will need two new pupils per week to maintain a 40 lesson week.
Please note if you were able to get all your own pupils, the pupil generation fee would be zero and, in the above example, your weekly earnings would increase to £602 giving you an annual earnings figure of £28,424.
Naturally, in areas where the lesson rate is higher than the above example or the type of training given was valued at a higher rate, potential earnings would correspondingly be much greater. For example the above figure of £28,424 would increase to £32,264 at £22 per lesson, £36,104 at £24 per lesson and £39,944 at £26 per lesson charged.