Also called: Learn-to-swim teacher, Swim coach
Teaches babies, kids, and adults to swim and be safe in the water.
Swim instructors get in the pool with nervous beginners, teach floating and strokes, and coach swim teams. It's often a first job for teens with lifeguard certification.
Estimate; often part-time.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Certificate, about 0 years after high school. Water safety instructor or lifeguard certification.
Ways in: Certification, On-the-job training. Training cost: Under $15k.
Growing about average. BLS projects steady demand for self-enrichment teachers as people pay for lessons and activities.
Low risk for 10 years. No robot will teach a nervous kid to float; swim lessons stay hands-on and human.
Age 16+. One way to start: Sign up for a Red Cross Water Safety Instructor course, or apply to swim schools that train in-house First: Red Cross WSI course (about 25–30 hours) or a swim school's in-house training
Classes: Physical education, Health, Biology.
Official data: O*NET occupation 25-3021.
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