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title: Instructor Salaries
description: Recommendation for instructor pay
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# [Instructor Salaries](https://blog.lern.com/member-questions/instructor-salaries)

 Written by [Jordan Kivley](https://blog.lern.com/member-questions/author/jordan-kivley) | May 23, 2018 6:14:13 AM

**Q:** When Greg was here teaching the Certified Program Planner Course he talked about limiting the amount of work assigned to any one individual instructor to a certain percentage. I am looking through my notes and cannot find his recommendation. Do you know where I can find this? I want to develop a policy around that recommendation.

**A:** I spoke with Greg Marsello, and there appears to be some confusion about his comments. What he typically tells people is LERN's recommendation that instructor salaries not exceed 40% of income--making it more likely that they will achieve a healthy operating margin. We don't have any specific guidelines about how much one instructor should teach. If this is not what you are looking for, let me know, and I will dig deeper.

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