Dog groomer jobs in Melbourne with a feed that opens on your own neighbourhood
Approved Petme sitters in Melbourne with 6+ months of paid grooming can add grooming to their profile. You set the menu and where you work, and the before-and-afters you post reach owners around Fitzroy or Brunswick early.
Grooming has its own review on Petme: groomers in Melbourne apply from the app once their sitter profile is approved.
Melbourne owners see posts from their own area first
Petme mixes pet care with a social feed. Share a groom from Richmond or Northcote and the people close by see it before anyone across the city, then follow you to catch the next one.
Every session can be a post
When a groom in Melbourne is done, post it with a short caption about the coat or the cut, so owners know what you do well.
A feed that starts close to home
Petme opens on posts from people near the viewer. A groom you share from Carlton reaches your part of Melbourne before it reaches anyone farther out.
From a post to your profile
An owner who likes a post can follow you, open your profile and see the grooming menu you offer in Melbourne.
Where you groom in Melbourne
Each session in Melbourne happens where you say: at your own place, at the owner's home within the radius you set, or both, with the owner choosing on each request. A short radius keeps you close to home; a longer one covers more of Melbourne.
At your place
Owners in Melbourne bring their pet to you. Your address is not shown on the request; you share it with the owner in the app chat.
At the owner's home
You travel with your kit inside a radius of 3, 5, 10 or 20 km from home, so a groomer based near Fitzroy chooses how much of Melbourne to cover.
Both
Offer both and your profile shows both options. Prices stay per session and dog size either way, and a custom offer adjusts one before payment.
Three sessions, two extras, every price yours
Petme sets no grooming rate in Melbourne. Switch on the sessions you offer, price each one per dog size, add a price for cats if you groom them, and choose whether the extras cost anything.
Full groom
Your price per session, for each dog size and for cats
Bath and brush
A lighter session, with its own price per dog size
Nails only
A short nail session at a price you choose
De-shedding (extra)
Priced per pet, or offered at no extra charge
Teeth brushing (extra)
Priced per pet, or included in the session
What owners pay for grooming in Melbourne
Typical prices at grooming salons in Melbourne, from the sources below. On Petme you set your own prices, so treat these as a reference point, not a promise of earnings.
Full groom, medium dog
$125 to $145
Bath and brush, medium dog
$65 to $85
Typical time for a full groom, medium dog
1.5 to 2.5 hours
Sources: The Dog Dazzlers, Mr Pet Melbourne, Momo Pet Grooming (duration), Sam's Pampered Pooches (duration), checked in October 2026.
Melbourne neighbourhoods you can cover
Melbourne CBD, Fitzroy, Carlton: mark the parts of Melbourne you cover on your profile. The grooms you post reach people near you first.
What Melbourne groomers get on Petme
Prices you set
Each session carries your own price per dog size. If a coat needs more work than the request suggested, you send a custom offer before the owner pays.
Hours you open
No shifts and no rota. Requests can only use the start times you open in the app, so grooming fits around a salon job, studies or other sitting work.
A reviewed standard
Every Petme groomer is an approved sitter who also passed the grooming review: paid experience, proof and before-and-after work.
How to start grooming on Petme in Melbourne
1. Become a Petme sitter
Download the Petme app, build your sitter profile with the Melbourne areas you cover and pass ID verification. You need to be 18 or over.
2. Open the grooming application
Start it from the grooming tile in your dashboard. Add your paid grooming experience, where you worked and at least one proof: a certificate or diploma, an employer reference, or a website or social link.
3. Show your work
Upload 3 to 6 before-and-after pairs of pets you groomed: the same pet, a similar angle and no filters. Confirm the 3 declarations and send it.
4. Set up and post
Once approved, choose where you groom, your home-visit radius, the pets you accept, your menu prices and your start times, then start posting your grooms.
Dog grooming jobs in Melbourne
Questions groomers in Melbourne ask before they apply.
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Bring your grooming to Petme in Melbourne
Become a Petme sitter, send the grooming application from the app with your proof and before-and-after pairs, then post your work for owners nearby.
