How To Become An Animal Care Supervisor

Working as an Animal Care Supervisor

For all you animal lovers out there, there are careers where you can do what you love the most. And that includes becoming an animal care supervisor. Literally, your job is to take care of animals. Go ahead and name a better job. We'll wait.

The supervisor does everything from planning the feeding of each animal to scheduling care for the animals. As an animal care supervisor, you can choose to work at a large facility where you'll be assigned to a small portion, or you could work at a small facility and supervise every aspect. We're still waiting to hear of a better job than that.

There is more than meets the eye when it comes to being an animal care supervisor. For example, did you know that they make an average of $19.28 an hour? That's $40,109 a year!

What Does an Animal Care Supervisor Do

There are certain skills that many animal care supervisors have in order to accomplish their responsibilities. By taking a look through resumes, we were able to narrow down the most common skills for a person in this position. We discovered that a lot of resumes listed emotional stability, communication skills and organizational skills.

When it comes to the most important skills required to be an animal care supervisor, we found that a lot of resumes listed 19.9% of animal care supervisors included animal care, while 11.5% of resumes included patient care, and 9.8% of resumes included direct supervision. Hard skills like these are helpful to have when it comes to performing essential job responsibilities.

When it comes to searching for a job, many search for a key term or phrase. Instead, it might be more helpful to search by industry, as you might be missing jobs that you never thought about in industries that you didn't even think offered positions related to the animal care supervisor job title. But what industry to start with? Most animal care supervisors actually find jobs in the education and health care industries.

How To Become an Animal Care Supervisor

If you're interested in becoming an animal care supervisor, one of the first things to consider is how much education you need. We've determined that 44.5% of animal care supervisors have a bachelor's degree. In terms of higher education levels, we found that 12.4% of animal care supervisors have master's degrees. Even though most animal care supervisors have a college degree, it's possible to become one with only a high school degree or GED.

Choosing the right major is always an important step when researching how to become an animal care supervisor. When we researched the most common majors for an animal care supervisor, we found that they most commonly earn bachelor's degree degrees or associate degree degrees. Other degrees that we often see on animal care supervisor resumes include high school diploma degrees or master's degree degrees.

You may find that experience in other jobs will help you become an animal care supervisor. In fact, many animal care supervisor jobs require experience in a role such as customer service representative. Meanwhile, many animal care supervisors also have previous career experience in roles such as internship or veterinary technician.

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Animal Care Supervisor Career Paths

In addition to switching up your job search, it might prove helpful to look at a career path for your specific job. Now, what's a career path you ask? Well, it's practically a map that shows how you might advance from one job title to another. Our career paths are especially detailed with salary changes. So, for example, if you started out with the role of manager you might progress to a role such as office manager eventually. Later on in your career, you could end up with the title practice manager.

Average Salary for an Animal Care Supervisor

Animal Care Supervisors in America make an average salary of $40,109 per year or $19 per hour. The top 10 percent makes over $65,000 per year, while the bottom 10 percent under $24,000 per year.

Average Salary

$40,109

Best Paying Cities

Recently Added Salaries

Job TitleCompany	Company	Start Date	Salary
Mayo Clinic Supervisor-Animal Care Facilities Supervisor-Animal Care Facilities	Mayo Clinic Mayo Clinic	12/24/2020 12/24/2020	$111,02812/24/2020 $111,028
Indy gov Enforcement Supervisor-Animal Care Services Enforcement Supervisor-Animal Care Services	Indy gov Indy gov	12/08/2020 12/08/2020	$42,84012/08/2020 $42,840
Mayo Clinic Supervisor-Animal Care Facilities Supervisor-Animal Care Facilities	Mayo Clinic Mayo Clinic	11/20/2020 11/20/2020	$111,02811/20/2020 $111,028
Geo Group Inc. Youth Care Supervisor Youth Care Supervisor	Geo Group Inc. Geo Group Inc.	06/20/2020 06/20/2020	$45,00006/20/2020 $45,000
San Diego Humane Society Animal Care Supervisor Animal Care Supervisor	San Diego Humane Society San Diego Humane Society	02/17/2020 02/17/2020	$39,17302/17/2020 $39,173

Top Colleges for Animal Care Supervisors

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Top Skills For an Animal Care Supervisor

The skills section on your resume can be almost as important as the experience section, so you want it to be an accurate portrayal of what you can do. Luckily, we've found all of the skills you'll need so even if you don't have these skills yet, you know what you need to work on. Out of all the resumes we looked through, 19.9% of animal care supervisors listed animal care on their resume, but soft skills such as emotional stability and communication skills are important as well.

Animal Care, 19.9%
Patient Care, 11.5%
Direct Supervision, 9.8%
Daily Operations, 6.3%
Daily Activities, 6.2%
Other Skills, 46.3%

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Top Animal Care Supervisor Employers

1. Jackson Laboratory

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Avg. Salary:

$46,999