Also called: Mobile Grooming Van Owner
Grooms dogs and cats in a fully equipped van that drives to clients' homes.
Parks in a client's driveway, bathes and clips a poodle in the van's mini salon, trims nails, and moves on to the next house. Owners of their own vans can earn well above salon groomers.
Estimate; owner-operators.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Certificate, about 1 year after high school. Grooming school or apprenticeship plus business skills.
Ways in: Trade school, Apprenticeship, Self-taught. Training cost: Under $15k.
Majors to look at: Pet Grooming (certificate).
Growing faster than average. Growing fast.
Low risk for 10 years. Apps handle booking and routing; bathing, clipping and calming a nervous dog in the van stay hands-on.
Classes: Business, Art, Biology, Driver's ed.
Official data: O*NET occupation 39-2021.
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