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title: "Instructor Pay Rates"
url: https://bazppmilk.gleap.help/en/articles/14117282-instructor-pay-rates
collection: "Instructors and Availability Management"
updated: 2026-10-23
language: en
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# Instructor Pay Rates

# **Adding Pay Rates**

As an Owner or Admin, you can now easily manage and set the pay rates for individual instructors within the system. This can be done on the [**Staff page**](https://admin.runswiftapp.com/settings/staff), by clicking into an instructor's profile. After entering the instructor's profile, you will see a "**Payroll**" tab. Click on it to view existing pay rates for that instructor.

To add a new pay rate for an instructor, click the "**Add Pay Rate**" button in the top right corner.

![](https://staticfiles.gleap.io/helpcenter/68f9695533396ef6c4d4cb3e/20261020144649_5472.png)

This will display a pop-up modal with the following fields for Admin to customize:

-   **Service Types vs Individual Service**: Administrators can select the Service Types for which the pay rate will apply to. If you rather specific the pay rate for a specific, individual service then you would select that type instead followed by the individual service.  
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-   **Pay Type:** Admin can choose whether they want the instructor's pay rate to be hourly or commission-based. Commission-based pay rates break down into two additional options  
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    -   Flat amount per registrant (ex. $10 per lesson)
        
    -   Percentage of booking revenue (ex. 20% of the lesson cost per lesson).
        

Click the "Add Pay Rate" button in the bottom right corner of the pop-up modal to save the pay rate.

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# **Changing Pay Rates**

If you wish to change an instructor's pay rate for a service, you will first need to delete the existing pay rate. Once that pay rate has been deleted, you can create a new pay rate for the service as you see fit.

**⚠️ Note:** When you change an instructor's pay rate for a service, all of the historical data in the payroll reports will be adjusted according to the new pay rate.

For example, if you set an instructor's pay rate for a 60-minute lesson as $20 per lesson, and the instructor conducts 10 lessons in a month, running the payroll report at the end of the month will display a total of $200 for that instructor.

However, if you were to increase that instructor's pay rate to $25 per 60-minute lesson, assuming they were to conduct 10 lessons in the next month as well, running a payroll report for the past two months would display a total of $500, instead of $450.

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# **Payroll Reporting**

If you would like to run a Payroll Report, you can do so from **Reports > Payroll**.

More information on Payroll Report can be found [here](https://help.runswiftapp.com/article/445-payroll-report).