Now hiring ski & snowboard instructors
Teach at Granlibakken
Great pay, tons of fun, and coaching that makes you a better pro.
Apply by Oct 31st for the chance to secure a free Epic Local or Ikon Base pass
- an hour, top rate
- $40+
- an hour, top rate
- of your tips
- 100%
- of your tips
- private lessons
- 94%
- private lessons
- guest rating
- 4.92
- guest rating
Why teach with us
The best winter job in Tahoe.
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Great pay
Start at $22 to $28 an hour, add bonuses that stack up to +$12 an hour, and keep 100% of your tips. Full-time and flexible part-time schedules available.
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Fun on the hill
Your office is a Lake Tahoe ski hill and your crew is still kids at heart. Most lessons are privates, so you really get to teach.
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Grow as a pro
Train alongside Tahoe's finest, work toward your next PSIA-AASI level, and earn more with every certification you add.
Join the Snow Schoolers Team!
Earn up to $40+ per hour. Set your own schedule. Train alongside Tahoe's finest.
Starting Pay Rates
- Not yet certified: $22/hr
- PSIA-AASI Level 1: $24/hr, +$1/hr each for dual discipline, second language, internal exams, specialist certs
- PSIA-AASI Level 2+ and supervisors: $28/hr
- Returning staff: +$0.50/hr minimum raise
Hourly Bonuses
- Kids 6 and under: +$6/hr
- Private requests: +$10/hr
- Large groups: +$3/hr per student beyond 3
- Bonuses stack up to +$12/hr
- Plus instructors always keep 100% of tips!
Snow Schoolers × Granlibakken
Snow Schoolers is an instructor-first ski and snowboard school. It started in 2014 with a simple question from friends at a Tahoe ski lease: what do instructors actually make? The answer was next to nothing, so we set out to change it. Today we run the ski school at Granlibakken in Tahoe and at Frisco Adventure Park in Colorado.
Here the ski school is a revenue-share partnership. Granlibakken brings the hill, the lifts and the lodge; Snow Schoolers hires, trains and schedules the instructors; and every lesson is shared between the two. When lessons grow, both do, and that's what lets us pay instructors what the job is worth.
Why Snow Schoolers is Special
- Instructors first. Our mission has two parts: make learning to ski or ride affordable and accessible for the average American, and pay snowsports pros a sustainable living wage.
- You teach, you don't herd. About 94% of our lessons are privates, compared with under 25% at the big destination resorts.
- Guests who love it. A 4.92 average rating and zero preventable safety incidents last season.
- Software that works for you. Book, schedule, message students and see your agenda in one place.
- A real hill with real history. At Granlibakken, over half of skier visits include a lesson, against roughly 7% nationally. Ski school is this hill's original business.
Listen: Storm Skiing podcast
Fixing America's ski school problem
Our founder sits down with Stuart Winchester of Storm Skiing to tell the whole story: why ski lessons cost what they do, how we pay instructors more while charging guests less, and where we're going next.
Listen to the episode →
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