Property and grounds
Pool & Spa Service
You keep water safe and equipment running. Chemistry, pumps, filters, heaters, automation. It is route work with real technical depth underneath it, and in Georgia it runs almost year-round.
A day in it
- Route of fifteen or twenty pools, planned the night before.
- Test the water at every stop — chlorine, pH, alkalinity, stabilizer.
- Dose what it needs, brush the walls, empty the baskets.
- Some stops are ten minutes. Some are not.
- Lunch in the truck between neighborhoods.
- Afternoon service call: pump is running but not moving water. Bad seal, losing prime.
- Rebuild it on site, prime it, watch the pressure come up.
What it pays
- Starting out
- $33,860
- Median
- $48,620
- Experienced
- $76,110
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2024 (national). Starting out = 10th percentile. Median = 50th. Experienced = 90th. Annual. Georgia figures to be added alongside national. SOC 49-9071. Real numbers only — never estimated, never rounded up.
How you get in
- —Hired with no experience and trained on a route. Very open door.
- —CPO — Certified Pool Operator — is a two-day course and it is the credential that matters.
- —Equipment and automation training from manufacturers moves you from cleaner to technician.
- —The Mustard Seed covers CPO certification and your first test kit and tools.
What you need before you start
- —Sun, all day, most of the year.
- —Chemical handling done carefully and correctly.
- —Route reliability. Customers notice a missed week immediately.
Someone doing it
Photograph, first name, age, and three or four sentences in their own words — to be supplied.
What it turns into
Service tech, then repair and renovation specialist, then your own route. Pool routes are bought and sold as assets — you can own income here early.
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