Property News · May 27, 2015

Dog walkers: why ditching the rat race is no walk in the park


Fed up with being yanked in six directions and dealing with other people’s mess at work? You could take up professional dog walking instead …If you want to jack in the rat race, your best bet might be to become a dog walker. It’s been reported that they earn a fifth more than the average UK salary – but work less than half the average hours.The statistics behind that claim depend on what is taken as an average salary. What is certainly true is that a dog walker charging £11.50 per dog, per hour, and performing 197 dog-walks per month, can equal the current UK median salary of £27,200 a year. And, at a rate of 13 dog-walks per day, that month’s work is done in just over 15 days. If that same walker worked for 20 days per month, they’d earn more than £35,000 per year. In London, dog walkers charge more, around £14 per hour, probably because the dogs there have developed fancy tastes and need to be bribed with macaroons. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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