Among the various career prospects that have held steadfast and even grown in recent years, notwithstanding the economic downturn and its ramifications, has been imparting horse riding lessons. This is a profession which continues to grow by leaps and bounds and with incessant demand for professionals in the realm, there seems absolutely no looking back as far as career prospects and earnings are concerned.

That said there are many variations which affect – if not the career prospects, then definitely the earnings. For instance, if you are located in an upscale, urban area and have high flying clients coming to you to learn horse riding, no matter what the price, then you will certainly be making an enormous amount of money. Similarly, if you are located in a remote or rural area with numerous horse farms in the vicinity, your earnings could dwindle significantly, given the competition around you, because of which you will have to keep prices really low.

Coming down to specifics, the general observation has been that the money one makes in a month would depend to a large extent on the number of horses that are available for training, since the charges are generally per horse. Taking an average amount of say $300 a month being charged for each horse, with 5 horses, earnings would go up to $1500 a month while the same with 10 horses would go up to as much as $3000 a month.

Further, when it comes to sessions as a riding lessons instructor, the pay would usually be per hour, which can vary anywhere between say $25 to $75 an hour, per student. Depending on the number of students that one has within one’s fold as well as the number of hours of learning that these students take, instructors could certainly be looking at making a substantial amount of money for themselves, which could go up to as much as $180000 a year, viz. $15000 a month.

Clearly, imparting riding lessons can certainly be very lucrative!

A word of caution though – it will take you some effort to get to this stage where you are actually able to make this kind of money. For instance, you must have CPR and First Aid training as well as certification in order to be able to make the kind of money that you are aspiring to make. Further – and something which is rather obvious, you certainly need to be very adept with handling horses yourself. This includes being able to control them, even in the most challenging situations where the horse may choose to behave in an extremely erratic manner.

Riding lessons – final words

You also need to have a pleasing personality which will in turn ensure that you have students flocking back to you regularly; you will be surprised at the extent to which word about this line of work spreads faster through word of mouth and informal recommendations than through any other means!

Overall, get yourself up to the mark on all these aspects and you should certainly a bright and rewarding career, giving riding lessons!