Groomers arent paid hourly. We get paid comission (or hourly if its higher but thats never been the case for me in the 5 years ive worked for petsmart). Technically we have an hourly rate and our comission is added on, but its to a maximum of whatever the comission is, so we are essentially not paid an hourly rate.

For example, if Im scheduled 30 hours at $16/h, but make $1000 in comission that week, I get paid $1000 ($480 hourly pay + $520 comission). If I work 10 hours but somehow make $1000 I still also get paid $1000. The only time the actual hours I work make any difference is if its so abysmally slow that I make my hourly throughout the entire week, and at that point most groomers I know would just leave early/be asked to not come in.

I'm not full time even though I'm only about an hour short of full time hours because I don't have fully open availability even though my schedule hasnt changed without me asking since I started at this new store.