Instructor compensation

The Instructor compensation page is where you decide how each instructor gets paid: a monthly salary, a rate per ride, a guaranteed minimum per ride, or any combination. Only admins can open it.

There are two tabs: Sets, where you build reusable rate templates, and Instructors, where you assign a template (or a salary) to each person.

Building a compensation set

A compensation set is a rate template you can reuse across instructors. To create one:

1. Go to Settings → Instructor compensation → Sets.
2. Click Add set (you can have up to 3 active sets at a time).
3. Name it, and choose how it calculates pay:

• Per participant — adds up a rate for every rider who attends a ride.
• Per lesson — one flat fee per ride, however many riders are on it.
• Floor (max of lesson + participants) — pays whichever is higher: the flat lesson fee, or the sum of per-participant rates.

1. Set a rate for each of your ride types.
2. Optionally turn on Pay differently for passes, Pay differently for vouchers, or Pay differently for own-horse riders to set separate rates for those cases — leave them off and those riders count at the regular rate.
3. Click Save set.

Archiving a set keeps it visible in history but stops it being assignable to anyone new — you can't archive a set that's still assigned to an active instructor.

Assigning an instructor

Switch to the Instructors tab to see every instructor and admin, their current pay, and when it took effect.

1. Click the edit icon next to an instructor.
2. Set any combination of:

• Monthly salary — a flat amount that stacks on top of anything else.
• Per ride (earning set) — one of your compensation sets, for what they earn ride by ride.
• Floor (per-ride minimum) — a guaranteed minimum per ride: they're paid the higher of their earning-set rate or the floor.

1. Set the date the change takes effect from — today, or a future date to schedule it. You can also backdate it, for example when setting up an instructor whose rides predate this configuration.
2. Add an optional note, then save.

You need at least one of salary, earning set, or floor — you can't save an empty assignment.

Each instructor has a History panel showing every past, current, and future assignment. Only a future-dated assignment can be deleted; deleting it brings the previous one back into effect.

Good to know

• Salary and a per-ride set are not either/or — they stack. The floor, if set, guarantees a per-ride minimum on top of whichever earning rate applies.
• A change you schedule for a future date doesn't affect rides before that date; the previous assignment stays in effect until then.
• You can't delete a change that's already active or in the past — only one that hasn't started yet.

Related

• Pricing — the same compensation sets appear on the pricing sheet, alongside customer prices, for a faster single-screen view.
• Earnings — where these rates are applied automatically to work out what each instructor is owed.