Yes, You Can Make $100k+ a Year Walking Dogs

This might be my “retirement” job when I finally F.I.R.E.

Lauren Como
3 min readMar 22, 2023
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I have a bit of an obsession with dogs — I have more pictures on my camera roll of my friend’s dogs than I do of my actual friends.

I’ve even had plenty of Facetime calls with my good friend’s french bulldog.

I know, I’m the crazy dog lady.

The other day, I was scrolling through a finance site that I follow, when I learned that you can make a six-figure income from walking dogs.

Enter Ryan Stewart — Founder of “Ryan for Dogs” — a full-time dog-walking business.

Ryan started back in 2002, purely as a side gig, as he was struggling to earn a living as an actor in New York.

Now he does this full-time (he works around 36 hours a week), earning roughly $60 per hour walking three to five dogs at a time.

Ryan’s built a great reputation over multiple decades, enabling him to earn up to $120,000 per year.

As easy as this job sounds, there are some downsides too…

Some readers are thinking that “simply putting a dog on a leash is a cakewalk”, and while it’s not brain surgery, it’s not always easy; Ryan notes that it can

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