What dog walkers actually take home
Every figure on this page is what you take home — your earnings after our fee, not the price the customer pays.
On BOB O JOB, a 30-minute walk typically takes home £10.20–£12.75, an hour £15.30–£18.70, and day boarding from £25.50. You see the exact amount on every walk before you accept it. Across a week it adds up — and you decide how much you take on.
Example weeks
- •A few lunchtime walks (part-time, around 10 hrs/wk): ~£125–£200/week
- •Full days, school-run gaps and weekends (around 40 hrs/wk): ~£500–£800/week
- •Weekends only (around 8 hrs): ~£100–£150 a weekend
Walks are short and spread out, so a ten-hour week is rarely ten paid hours back to back — these allow for the gaps between them. They are illustrations, not forecasts: what you make depends on your hours, your area and the walks you accept. Take-home is before tax, and as a self-employed Jobber your tax and National Insurance are yours to handle.
Why it works around your life
There are no minimum hours and no set shifts. Go online when you're free, set a radius around where you live, and only see walks nearby. Every walk is tracked live on GPS. The customer's card is authorised before you travel, so the money is reserved up front and there's no invoice to chase. Earnings are released when the customer confirms, or about 4 hours after you finish, then paid out on Stripe’s standard schedule.
Move up, earn more
Complete more jobs and you climb from Bronze to Silver to Gold — each tier adds a bigger bonus on top of every job. Strong reviews unlock better job alerts, too.
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