Vocational Programs for Animal Caretakers Career

The role of Animal Caretakers is to feed, water, groom, bathe, exercise, or otherwise provide care to promote and maintain the well-being of pets and other animals that are not raised for consumption, such as dogs, cats, race horses, ornamental fish or birds, zoo animals, and mice.

The average annual wage of the occupations is $33,530 and $16 per hour. 1 vocational program could be taken for the Animal Caretakers career. Based on BLS data, a total of 268,830 employees were employed in the Occupation.

The 2024 average tuition over the programs for preparing Animal Caretakers is $8,350. The average length of the programs is 412 hours and the average completion time is 8.33 months.

Vocational Programs to Prepare Animal Caretakers Career

The following 1 vocational program is required or helpful to prepare Animal Caretakers. Total 10 schools are offering certificate programs.

The tuition, program length, and completion time program information is average amounts over all schools that offer each program. This information is only for vocational programs (i.e. certificate programs) and not for bachelor's or graduate degrees.


Related Occupations to Animal Caretakers Career

The following 19 occupations are related to Animal Caretakers.

Schools offering vocational programs for Animal Caretakers

The following 11 schools offer the vocational programs and certificate courses for preparing Animal Caretakers. The list includes some 4-year colleges that have certificate or associate programs for the career.

Merryfield Academy

Oakland Park, FL private (for-profit), Less than 2-year
Tuition & Fees
2023-2024$10,800

North Shore Community College

Danvers, MA public, 2-4 year
Tuition & Fees
2023-2024$5,352(in-state) $10,920(out-of-state)

Eastern New Mexico University-Roswell Campus

Roswell, NM public, 2-4 year
Tuition & Fees
2023-2024$2,424(in-state) $5,616(out-of-state)

Volunteer State Community College

Gallatin, TN public, 2-4 year
Tuition & Fees
2023-2024$4,524(in-state) $17,724(out-of-state)

Columbia Central University-Caguas

Caguas, PR private (for-profit), four-year
Tuition & Fees
2023-2024$8,054

CEM College-San Juan

San Juan, PR private (for-profit), four-year
Tuition & Fees
2023-2024$12,900

Liceo de Arte y Tecnologia

San Juan, PR private (for-profit), 2-4 year
Tuition & Fees
2023-2024$9,051

CEM College-Humacao

Humacao, PR private (for-profit), four-year
Tuition & Fees
2023-2024$12,900

Universal Technology College of Puerto Rico

Aguadilla, PR private (not-for-profit), four-year
Tuition & Fees
2023-2024$22,490

PPG Technical College

Caguas, PR private (for-profit), Less than 2-year
Tuition & Fees
2023-2024$8,620
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