Do vets make a lot of money?

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Joshua Broadwater · Answer

Do vets make a lot of money? So this is a complicated answer because there are so many types of vets. One vet is not equal to the next. Even though we all go to the same school and do the same eight years of training, four years of undergrad typically, and four years of vet school, many vets take very different paths and there are general vets, which most people are familiar with, who do the vaccines and the general checkups with your animals, your dogs and cats. There are large animal vets who take care of cows and pigs and goats and sheep. There are equine vets with horses and then there are specialists like myself, which I'm a veterinary ophthalmologist and there's also a cardiologist and neurologist. So the salary really varies between all of those and sometimes can be as low as $60,000, $70,000, $80,000, but can be as high as several hundred thousand dollars. The trick is if you own a clinic, you may be taking more risk to buy a clinic and try to make more of a higher salary. If you're a specialist, you may make more money as well, but you have to go to school a lot longer, maybe three or four years longer than some general vets. So yes, you can make good money in the veterinary field, but it may take a longer path to get there.

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