The business of relief practice
Everything nobody taught you in vet school about running relief work as a business — taxes, entities, rates, contracts, books. Written by people who do this, checked by people who are licensed to check it.
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Making the leap
What relief practice actually pays, what it costs you, and how vets make the move without guessing. The medicine you already know is the hard part — the business side is the solvable part.
Entity, legal & risk
Sole prop, LLC, PLLC or S-corp; the contract clauses that matter; liability cover; and the licensing logistics of working across clinics and states.
Money
Quarterly estimates, the deductions relief vets under-claim, what tax-ready books actually means, and retirement when nobody is matching.
Operations & systems
One schedule across every source, per-clinic rate cards, invoicing that gets paid on time, and the tech stack you actually need.
Growth & career
Finding work without cringing, specialisation premiums, scaling past yourself, and designing a workload that does not burn you out twice.
Data & benchmarks
Rate benchmarks, utilisation, income distributions and the real cost of the duct-tape back office — published so the whole profession can argue with it.