The Mountain
The mountain is the real benefit of working at Stevens Pass. With 11 lifts on 3 sides of 2 mountains Stevens is a great place to call home. We have numerous bowls, glades and faces, a great park and easy access backcountry.

Locker Room
Our comfortable locker room provides a place for instructors to watch video, tune, store and dry their gear. The Ski School Building houses the sales office and locker room upstairs with the Youth Programs Facility below.

Teaching Terrain
Our learning hill is a great spot for first timers. The whole hill is roped off to limit through traffic and there are SunKid carpets for skiers and snowboarders reserved for the ski school. The Daisy lift accesses our green runs, it is a nice long run with a variety of terrain and more difficult options that prep students for the blue runs and beyond.

Students
Most of our students are day trippers from Seattle and most of them come on weekends in January and February or anytime kids are out of school. In March when spring sports start for kids things slow down a bit but most instructors are ready for a slackened workload by then anyway. For those who want it there is always work.

Workload
Stevens Pass requires 20 days to get a pass. That amounts to about one day a week. If you can only work 20 days they will have to be the 20 days that we need you. 100 instructors at line ups in April won't do us any good; we need all hands on deck during our multi-week programs in January and February. Instructors who can make it up over winter break get some bonus points also. The ski school runs Friday night multi-week programs and there are private lessons going out every Friday and Saturday night as well. Part time instructors should average around 60 hours for the season, that is 1 lesson half of your days and 2 lessons the other half if you only come up the minimum of 20 days. There are incentives $$$ that go out to instructors that rack up the hours and anyone under 40 gets bad vibes for not pulling their weight.

Benefits
The mountain was already mentioned and the facilities at ski school are top notch. Other benefitsoffered by the resort include:

  1. Dependent passes for kids and spouses and domestic partners.
  2. the Mountain Exchange program that gets you cheap or free tickets at resorts around the Northwest.
  3. Employee Transportation runs west to Monroe and east to HWY 97 several times daily.
  4. 50% off most food purchases
  5. 50% off of rentals and demo gear
  6. 25% off of repair costs in the shop
  7. 25% off of retail purchases
  8. Some Employee housing is available
  9. and more...

Housing

The Stevens Pass housing manager helps place adult employees (18 and older) in affordable accommodations in Skykomish and Lake Wenatchee. Spaces are limited so act fast and get your housing application in early. The Ski School also gets some full time spots in the Old Admin building at the resort (a.k.a. "the Bunkhouse") where there is also a bunkroom where instructors can crash for $10 a night, 1st come first served, and all employee housing is for adults, 18 and older. If you rent a place in a nearby town there is a new program where your landlord gets a pass or 10 tickets to sweeten the deal of housing a Stevens Pass employee.