Fitness Specialist, Part Time Mornings. Stony Brook. $25.00 to $28.00 an hour after onboarding, plus up to $6,000 in paid tuition.
Redefine Fitness. Stony Brook, NY. Part time.
Pay: $17.00 an hour for your first 30 days, then $25.00 to $28.00 an hour depending on your experience. 25 hours a week, Monday to Friday, 7:30 AM to 12:30 PM.
Up to $6,000 in tuition assistance at SUNY Suffolk County Community College, tied to the Fitness Instructor apprenticeship registered with the New York State Department of Labor, which Redefine Fitness is a participating employer in.
In county tuition at SUNY Suffolk is $3,025 a semester full time, or $252 a credit part time, plus roughly $460 a semester in fees. So $6,000 covers about one full year of tuition, or about 24 credits part time. An associate degree is 60 credits. We are not going to tell you we are paying for your whole degree, because we are not. We are paying for a serious piece of it while you work here, and we would rather you see the arithmetic now than find it out in September.
The apprenticeship itself is 2,000 hours of on the job training plus 244 hours of classroom instruction. At 25 hours a week that is about a year and a half. Mornings free by 12:30, afternoon and evening classes, and we carry a real piece of the tuition. If you are working toward exercise science or kinesiology and you need a job that pays properly and gets out of your way by lunch, this is it.
THE MONEY, EXACTLY
After onboarding, entry of the band is $25.00 an hour, which is $625.00 a week and $32,500 annualized at 25 hours.
Top of the band is $28.00 an hour, which is $700.00 a week and $36,400 annualized at 25 hours.
Where you land in that band is set by your experience and what you show us in the practical, and it is in your written offer before you accept anything. It is not a mystery number we decide later.
WHY THIS SEAT PAYS MORE PER HOUR THAN OUR FULL TIME SEAT
We post three Fitness Specialist seats and the hourly rates do not match. That is deliberate, so here it is plainly.
This seat trades certainty for rate. $25.00 to $28.00 an hour, which is above our full time rate, but there is no hour guarantee and no health plan at this scheduling level.
The full time seat trades rate for certainty. $24.04 an hour, but a guaranteed minimum of 38 paid hours every week, plus medical, dental and vision with employer contribution, a 401(k) with a 1% employer match, and paid time off.
You are being paid more per hour here because you are carrying the schedule risk. That is the trade and we would rather you see it now than feel misled in month two.
THREE THINGS THAT ARE IN THE OFFER LETTER YOU SIGN
The Redefine Standard raise ladder, the quarterly bonus and the tuition benefit are written into the offer letter you sign. Not a handbook. Not a slide in orientation. The document with your name on it.
Most gyms put their bonus scheme in a handbook they can rewrite on a Tuesday. Ours is a term of your employment agreement, and that is true on this seat too.
THE SCHEDULE, EXACTLY
Days: Monday to Friday.
Hours: 7:30 AM to 12:30 PM.
Per week: 25 hours.
Location: Stony Brook. This seat does not travel between sites.
These hours are the entire reason the seat exists. Our morning client block is when the physician referred population trains. We are not looking for open availability. We are looking for someone who wants these exact hours.
THE FIRST 30 DAYS, IN WRITING
Every Fitness Specialist we hire starts at $17.00 an hour for 30 calendar days. Full time, part time, weekend, experienced or not. Here is exactly how it works.
Rate during onboarding: $17.00 an hour, the 2026 Suffolk County minimum wage. At 25 hours that is $425.00 a week.
How long: 30 calendar days from your start date. Not 60. Not until we feel good about it.
What clears it: a written eleven point checklist we hand you on day one. You keep a copy and it gets signed off line by line as you clear it.
Day 30: a decision date, in writing, every time. Either you step to your seat rate on the next pay period, or you get one documented 14 day extension with the specific open items named, or we part ways. Never a silent continuation.
You will know on day one what you have to do to earn the full rate.
YOUR FIRST QUARTER DOES NOT COUNT AGAINST YOU
The quarter you are hired in and complete onboarding does not count for or against your performance evaluation. KPI tracking starts at the beginning of the first full calendar quarter after your onboarding clears.
Bonus eligibility starts at exactly the same point. The quarter you are hired in is not evaluated and it is not bonus eligible. It does not count in either direction: nothing in it is held against you, and nothing in it earns you a bonus. Your first shot at the quarterly bonus is your first full calendar quarter after onboarding clears.
Nobody here gets judged on the quarter they spent learning the system. You get a clean quarter to learn the floor, the clients, the software and the Standard before a single number is measured against you.
BE CLEAR ABOUT WHAT THIS SEAT IS AND IS NOT
It is 25 hours. It is not a full time job with a shorter schedule and it is not a stepping stone we are promising to convert. If a full time seat opens you will be considered, and we are not going to pretend that is a guarantee.
There is no hour guarantee on this seat. The full time seat carries a guaranteed 38 paid hours a week. This one does not. That is why the hourly is higher.
It is not benefits eligible in the health insurance sense. This position is scheduled under 30 hours a week, so medical, dental, vision and 401(k) are not offered at this scheduling level. We would rather say that in the ad than in week three.
What you do get: the tuition benefit, the full bonus system below, free training at both facilities, 35% off supplements and services, your next certification paid in full at Gold, and annual DEXA, RMR and VO2 testing at Gold. Plus NYS Paid Sick and Safe Leave, up to 40 hours a year.
WHAT WE ACTUALLY DO
We run two private personal training facilities on the North Shore of Long Island. Our mission is to redefine the limits of medicine through fitness.
Our clients are not people shopping for a gym. They were sent by a doctor. Something in their health has to change and they are ready to spend real money on a plan that works. Average sale is over $2,200.
You will see post PT, post op, GLP-1, osteoporosis, blood sugar and balance cases. You are running clinical grade programming for people who are motivated, informed and paying attention. We train you on our side of it.
This role reports to a Shift Lead.
WHAT YOU'LL OWN
Programming. Built to the client's assessment, their goals and their timeline. Not a template.
The scans. InBody at Day 0, Week 6 and Week 11. The Week 11 scan is where a client sees what twelve weeks actually did to their body. It is the most important thirty minutes in the program and it is yours.
Reassessments on schedule. Every client, every cycle.
Specialty workshops. One you attend every year, and one you build and run every year. Both. This is a requirement of the job on this seat too, not an extra credit project. You pick a topic you actually know, you build it, and you run it for our clients.
Content and marketing. You participate in content creation and marketing initiatives as directed. We build this brand in public and you are part of that. Also a requirement, not a volunteer sign up sheet.
Keeping your clients. More on this below, because it is the part most gyms never put in writing.
HOW YOU GET PAID
$25.00 to $28.00 an hour after onboarding. Every hour recorded. This role is hourly and non exempt. It is not salaried. Overtime at time and a half for anything past 40 in a week, which this schedule is not built to produce.
Then there is The Redefine Standard, our annual season. One point equals one dollar of weekly business you move. A client you refer who signs and stays 30 days is worth their weekly rate in points plus cash. A client at risk who you save is worth their weekly dollars. An upgrade is worth the difference. It is the same Standard the full time Fitness Specialists run.
Where you finish the season sets your raise. It is a permanent dollar raise, roughly one a year, and it stacks as you climb.
- Silver: plus $500
- Gold: plus $1,000
- Platinum: plus $2,000
- Diamond: plus $3,500
Those are the company Standard amounts. Your written offer states exactly how they apply to a 25 hour schedule, and you see that before you accept anything. Your rank is on a board that updates every morning at six.
Cash on top of points, and these are flat amounts that do not scale down for part time:
- Client referral that signs: $300, rising to $400 at Platinum and $550 at Diamond
- Every upgrade or add on you close: $50
- Supplements: 15% of the sale
- Quarterly bonus: $200, $500 or $1,000 on hitting your ratio and clearing all four gates below
And a referral bounty every time you send us someone we hire. Half at their day 30, half at their day 90.
- Sales Executive, full time: $2,000
- Fitness Specialist, full time: $2,000
- Sales Executive, part time: $750
- Fitness Specialist, part time: $750
- Any other full time role: $1,000
- Any other part time role: $500
Both halves require your referral to still be employed and in good standing on that date. A part time Fitness Specialist who refers a full time hire gets the full time amount. The bounty follows the seat they fill, not the seat you sit in.
Gold pays for your next certification in full.
We are going to be straight about the bonus system, because it is new. The first season started July 18, 2026 and the first quarterly checks land in October. Nobody has completed a full season yet. We are not going to print a big earnings number and let you assume it is typical, because nobody here has earned one yet. We will show you the real board and the current trainers' actual numbers in the interview and let you judge for yourself.
TWO STANDARDS YOU SHOULD KNOW BEFORE YOU APPLY
The bonus ratio is your Combined Revenue divided by your wages for the quarter. Combined revenue is the training revenue you produce, plus upgrades and referrals you bring in, minus cancellations on your clients. On a 25 hour schedule your wage side of that formula is smaller and so is your production side. You can calculate your own number any day of the week.
- A 3.5 ratio pays $200
- A 4.0 ratio pays $500
- A 4.5 ratio pays $1,000
Hitting the ratio is not enough on its own. The bonus is all or none across four gates and every one has to clear.
1. You are past your grace period and you were employed the full quarter being measured. Bonus eligibility starts at your first full calendar quarter after onboarding clears. The quarter you are hired in is not evaluated and is not bonus eligible.
2. You are not on a performance improvement plan.
3. You are inside your Trainerize limit, which means fewer than 5 misses.
4. You produced $25,000 or more in training revenue that quarter.
Miss one gate and the bonus pays nothing, even at a 4.5 ratio. Gate 4 is a flat number and it is not reduced for a 25 hour seat. That is a real bar on this schedule and we are telling you now rather than in October.
The other end of that same ratio: below 2.0 in a quarter and you go on a performance improvement plan. One quarter under 2.0, not two. That is the only revenue based trigger we have and we are publishing it here so you see it before you apply rather than after you sign. Your hiring quarter is exempt, same as everything else in the grace period. The Trainerize miss ladder below is a separate count with its own performance plan trigger.
Cancellations count against you, on purpose. If a client on your book cancels, that revenue comes off your combined number and your ratio drops. Keeping clients is the job, not a bonus round.
Trainerize logging is a hard standard. Every workout logged, every session, on time. Misses are counted and they escalate. At 3 you are not eligible for a raise, at 5 not eligible for commissions, at 7 you are on a performance plan, at 8 it is a termination conversation. We put the ladder in the ad so it is never a surprise on a Friday.
WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU
- A current NCCA accredited certification. NASM, ACE, NSCA, ACSM or equivalent.
- Current CPR and AED.
- Genuine availability Monday to Friday, 7:30 AM to 12:30 PM. This is not negotiable and it is not a starting point.
- A bachelor's in exercise science, kinesiology or a related field. Preferred, not required. If you are working toward one, the tuition benefit above is pointed directly at you.
- Willingness to attend one specialty workshop a year, build and run one specialty workshop a year, and take part in content and marketing work when we ask. These are requirements of the role.
- A background check after a conditional offer. Our clients arrive on physician referral and you work with them one on one, so we screen. A record is reviewed individually under New York Correction Law Article 23-A and does not automatically disqualify you.
BENEFITS
- Up to $6,000 in tuition assistance at SUNY Suffolk County Community College, through the Fitness Instructor apprenticeship program registered with the New York State Department of Labor
- NYS Paid Sick and Safe Leave, up to 40 hours a year
- Free training at both facilities
- 35% off supplements, services and add ons
- Next certification paid in full at Gold
- Annual DEXA, RMR and VO2 retest at Gold
- Medical, dental, vision and 401(k) are not offered at this scheduling level, because this seat is scheduled under 30 hours
ONE THING WE'LL BE STRAIGHT ABOUT
We publish the whole compensation system before you accept it. The hourly band, where you land in it, the onboarding checklist, the points table, the raise amounts, the bonus formula and the compliance thresholds, all in writing. We would rather have a hard conversation in the interview than a surprise on a paycheck.
Pay: $17.00 - $28.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Continuing education credits
- Employee discount
- Gym membership
- Professional development assistance
- Referral program
- Tuition reimbursement
People with a criminal record are encouraged to apply
Application Question(s):
- This role is measured on published metrics: every session logged in Trainerize the same day, InBody scans at Day 0, Week 6 and Week 11, a miss ladder where 3 misses costs your raise, 5 costs your commissions, 7 puts you on a performance improvement plan and 8 is a termination conversation, and a quarterly revenue ratio below 2.0 that puts you on a performance improvement plan. Are you comfortable working to those standards?
- Which NCCA accredited certification do you currently hold, when does it expire, and is your CPR and AED card current?
- This seat is Monday to Friday, 7:30 AM to 12:30 PM, 25 hours a week, at our Stony Brook location. Are you available for that exact window every week, starting at 7:30 AM every weekday?
Work Location: In person
