{"id":8988,"date":"2015-05-27T01:11:41","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T18:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/dog-walkers-why-ditching-the-rat-race-is-no-walk-in-the-park\/"},"modified":"2016-03-24T10:52:09","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T03:52:09","slug":"dog-walkers-why-ditching-the-rat-race-is-no-walk-in-the-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/dog-walkers-why-ditching-the-rat-race-is-no-walk-in-the-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog walkers: why ditching the rat race is no walk in the park"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nFed up with being yanked in six directions and dealing with other people\u2019s mess at work? You could take up professional dog walking instead \u2026If you want to jack in the rat race, your best bet might be to become a dog walker. It\u2019s been reported that they earn a fifth more than the average UK salary \u2013 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 \u00a311.50 per dog, per hour, and performing 197 dog-walks per month, can equal the current UK median salary of \u00a327,200 a year. And, at a rate of 13 dog-walks per day, that month\u2019s work is done in just over 15 days. If that same walker worked for 20 days per month, they\u2019d earn more than \u00a335,000 per year. In London, dog walkers charge more, around \u00a314 per hour, probably because the dogs there have developed fancy tastes and need to be bribed with macaroons. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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