What is the salary like at Petco?

Great customers, great benefits, decent pay, fun culture and animals/pets.

Working long hours to finish task that can be difficult due to low payroll. Staffing is minimal and the expectations are high.

Very good starting job with good benefits. The base pay is great compared to other starting paying jobs in the US. They implemented new roles that all have a chance of moving up within the company. It's also a good job to get experience.

Not really any downsides from my part.

Gets your foot in the door, you learn basic dog training, learn how to run classes and work with clients and their dogs as well as learning useful products in the pet industry which comes in handy. Great to start off as a baby trainer.

No further training past the initial and for me there were no other trainers on location so you have to figure things out on your own. Also very corporatey and you end up doing a lot of non dog training tasks when you aren’t actively training like running the cash register or stocking shelves. On top of that the commission definitely could have been better, they offer 15% when I’ve seen other places offer 40% or more, plus they have the cheapest prices ergo the cheapest commissions so it ends up not compensating for the minimum wage you start at.

Great pay, achieve more then 8 dogs a day receive 55% commission

Health issues, more so physically

Petco focuses highly on pet safety. There are good benefits and good pay which, for groomers is commission or base pay - whichever is more that pay period.

They can sometimes put a lot of pressure on you to up sell add on packages.

Good pay and adequate employee benefits

Short staffed and low employee retention

You get a half hour break.

Bad management, low pay, low benefits, no recognition for work ethic.

Its commission based mostly, otherwise the hourly is pretty low unless you have experience and can ask for more base pay.

During slow season, the commission is much lower until you have an established salon.

Good manager and team memeber

very less pay and no easy promotions

Great pay if you have a busy salon but your commission is completely dependent on your stylists and their productivity.

Corporate micro manages everything and the quality of your store and work environment completely relies on who the store manager is and how they run the store. There is no continuity between locations. The training they give is laughable.