The Guild of Professional Farriers, Inc.

The Guild defines “full-time employment as a professional farrier” as either earning more than 70% of “active income” as defined by the IRS or earning more than the latest full time median personal income for the population age 25 and older average for both sexes as most recently announced by the U.S. Department of Commerce. (In 2008 report this amount is $33,921 as reported on the US Census Bureau web site.)

The Registration Committee requires that each candidate have a signed and notarized statement form a tax preparation professional attesting to the fact that the candidate meets the above requirements in the last four tax years.