Veterinarian
Diagnoses and treats animals, often across species and owners' budgets. Emotional load is higher than the salary suggests.
- Pay band (est.)
- $110k–$175k
- Time to competence
- 8 years
- Licence
- Required
- Setting
- clinic
- Leverage
- medium
- Place constraint
- low
- Physical demand
- 65/100
- Hours burden
- 70/100
Factor percentiles
Percentile against the whole curated set. Higher is better on that factor only.
- Play47th
Absorbing rather than merely paid.
- Specific knowledge51th
A combination of skills that is hard to copy.
- Leverage49th
Output that scales through code, media, capital or crew.
- Demand79th
Durability and shortage, scored conservatively.
- Pay88th
Mid-career floor and the range above it.
- Body24th
Inverse of physical demand and hours.
- Autonomy43th
Control of methods and time.
- People fit30th
Distance from your preferred people level.
- Place flexibility57th
Remote fit and freedom from specific metros.
- Time to skill16th
Inverse of years to competence.
- Meaning load97th
Care, craft and stewardship weight. Not a moral score.
- Downside tolerance13th
Inverse of named risk to body, market or platform.
Downside
Debt-to-income ratio is poor; euthanasia load and known burnout.
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 70/100 and people intensity 82/100. Who you are with is analysed at relationistics.com.
Source note: BLS/AVMA-style patterns; estimate. All figures are estimates for comparison.