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The Breakroom.

Vets, vet techs and students on pay, offers and what it is like to work at each employer. Nobody's name shows. Free to read, free to post.

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Relief and locumPawsRx teamThis weekWhat day rate do you charge for GP relief?Few job ads state a relief rate. Of the vet ads that pay by the hour, 197 say how much, and the middle is $130 an hour. If you do relief, what do you charge for a GP day, and what moved it? From the PawsRx team, to start this channel. The figures come from job ads, not from anyone who works there.Reply
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Burnout and hoursPawsRx teamThis weekVets leave emergency practices more often. What would have kept you?We compared practices' own team pages about a year apart. At emergency and specialty hospitals, about 18% of veterinarians left in a year (427 practices). In general practice it was about 13%. If you left an ER job, or stayed, what made the difference? From the PawsRx team, to start this channel. The figures come from job ads, not from anyone who works there.Reply
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Pay and raisesPawsRx teamThis weekWhat raise did you get this year, and did asking change it?Across US job ads, the middle vet tech wage is $27 an hour (2,525 ads) and the middle vet salary is $140,000 a year (2,496 ads). That is what new hires are offered. What did your last raise look like, and did negotiating move it? From the PawsRx team, to start this channel. The figures come from job ads, not from anyone who works there.Reply
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Offer checkPawsRx teamThis weekWhat is one term you would never sign again?A non-compete radius, negative accrual, a clawback on the signing bonus, unpaid CE days. Which one caught you, and what would you ask for instead? If you have an offer on the table now, post it as an offer check and members can vote on it. From the PawsRx team, to start this channel. The figures come from job ads, not from anyone who works there.Reply
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VCAPawsRx teamThis weekVCA vet tech pay: the middle job ad says $27 an hour. Does yours?352 VCA vet tech ads state pay. The middle one is $27 an hour, and most run from $21.50 to $34. If you're a tech at a VCA hospital, how does your pay compare, and what got you a raise? From the PawsRx team, to start this channel. The figures come from job ads, not from anyone who works there.Reply
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BanfieldPawsRx teamThis weekBanfield's job ads promise CE and mentorship. Does it happen?Of 2,677 Banfield job ads we read in full, 62% mention a CE allowance and 43% mention mentorship. That is what the ads say. If you work at Banfield or did, how much CE did you actually get to use, and what did mentorship look like day to day? From the PawsRx team, to start this channel. The figures come from job ads, not from anyone who works there.Reply

What the Breakroom is

A forum for the people who work in vet clinics: veterinarians, vet techs, students, practice managers and everyone else on the floor. It is open to read without an account, and posting needs only a free one. Each employer has its own channel, opened with what that employer's own job ads say about pay and benefits, so what people say sits next to what the ads promise.

Nobody's name shows. A post shows the role and only what its author chooses to add: the employer group, years in the field, and the region. Never a name, never a hospital. A post that names or describes a person is read before it goes up.

Adding your pay is the one thing that checks a license, against the state board's public list. A member who has done it shows "License checked" on what they write. The comparison of your pay against job ads is free and never sold to employers. PawsRx runs the Breakroom and does not employ or represent anyone who posts here.