Short answer-- it depends.
Longer-- it depends on where you are, but 100K is a nice number to
start with. Productivity (laymen would call it commission) is a part
of teh equation and can be adjusted up or down depending on how good
you think you are. Remember, you're gonna cause a few deaths early on
and someone else is paying for that.
Still longer-- I have a friend who is a bit more experienced than the
above. He grosses close to a million. He then has to cover his costs.
Office, employees, equipment (here is a situation where salaries are
actually not the biggest expense; the equipemtn leases are), etc. He
works at least 60 hours and up to 70 hours a week and clears a good
250K, partly by employing his wife to keep the money in the family. Of
course there are wroteoffs galore, too.
Another friend does mobile cardiology work; he goes to clinics as they
need him and uses their space to work on their clients pets. His
overhead is less (no employees, home office, car is owned by the biz)
but his equipment costs are about the same. He works about 30 hours a
week, grosses about 450K and clears about $200K. He's ten times
happier than the first one, too. Work smart, not hard.
These vets are in major metropolitan areas. If you're in East Teacup,
Montana, not a lot of sheep herders are going to pay you $750 to
diagnose a 2/6 murmur in a $800 lamb like Fido's owner will in
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