What is the Average Salary for a Gym Personal Trainer?
Personal trainers help individual clients or small groups work out at gyms or health clubs. A personal trainer is also known as a fitness trainer, according to O*Net Online, a website created under the sponsorship of the Department of Labor. If you are interested in becoming a personal trainer, find out how much you might be paid.
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National Salary
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Personal trainers and aerobics instructors are grouped into one category by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The mean hourly wage for personal trainers and aerobic instructors was $16.99 and the mean annual wage, or average salary, was $35,340 in May 2009.
Degrees
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Figures from the American Council on Exercise illustrate how education can affect a personal trainer's salary. In 2010, those with a high school diploma earned $45,516; associate degree, some college or trade school, $46,356; bachelor's degree, $50,597 and master's degree, $67,287.
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High Employment
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The largest source of employment can be found in fitness and recreation sports centers, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics in May 2009. Other industries that employed high numbers of fitness trainers and aerobics instructors were: civic and social organizations, $30,540; educational services, $29,610; local government, $33,950; and general medical and surgical hospitals, $34,940.
Top-Paying States
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Personal trainer salaries in New York were the highest, with an annual mean wage of $48,830, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics in May 2009. Other states with salaries higher than the national average were: the District of Columbia, $45,570; Massachusetts, $45,430; New Jersey, $42,400; and California, $40,980.
Work Life
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The American Council on Exercise lists facts about full-time fitness professionals.
Since 2005, the average salary for full-time personal trainers has increased 19 percent.
Despite the increase, 4 out of 10 trainers believe that the recession had a negative impact on their income.
Sixty-nine percent of fitness professionals are paid on an hourly basis.
More than 1 out of 3 fitness professionals work 21 to 40 hours per week with 10 percent working over 40 hours.
Fifty-one percent of personal trainers work for a club or fitness facility. Forty-nine percent work independently.
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