Service Business Founder
Builds a local business around a trade or service and hires into it. Ownership converts practised skill into an asset.
- Pay band (est.)
- $60k–$250k
- Time to competence
- 6 years
- Licence
- None
- Setting
- mixed
- Leverage
- high
- Place constraint
- low
- Physical demand
- 40/100
- Hours burden
- 82/100
Factor percentiles
Percentile against the whole curated set. Higher is better on that factor only.
- Play47th
Absorbing rather than merely paid.
- Specific knowledge73th
A combination of skills that is hard to copy.
- Leverage86th
Output that scales through code, media, capital or crew.
- Demand48th
Durability and shortage, scored conservatively.
- Pay76th
Mid-career floor and the range above it.
- Body39th
Inverse of physical demand and hours.
- Autonomy78th
Control of methods and time.
- People fit36th
Distance from your preferred people level.
- Place flexibility79th
Remote fit and freedom from specific metros.
- Time to skill44th
Inverse of years to competence.
- Meaning load2th
Care, craft and stewardship weight. Not a moral score.
- Downside tolerance56th
Inverse of named risk to body, market or platform.
Downside
Personal guarantees, payroll, and years before it pays properly.
Examine this against your weights
The percentiles above use the default weights. Set your own on the ranking and this vocation moves with them.
- Place constraint is low. Where you live is analysed at locationistics.com.
- Hours burden is 82/100 and people intensity 80/100. Who you are with is analysed at relationistics.com.
Source note: Small business survey patterns; editorial estimate. All figures are estimates for comparison.