For veterinary professionals
Median pay is $130,100 a year for veterinarians, $47,380 for veterinary technicians and $38,150 for veterinary assistants. Those are United States figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics May 2025 release, not estimates scraped from job adverts. Every number on this page is cited to the BLS page it came from.
Median is the middle: half of people in the occupation earned more and half earned less. The two outer columns are not a minimum and a maximum. BLS publishes them as the level below which the lowest ten percent fell and the level above which the highest ten percent rose.
| Role | Median a year | Median an hour | Lowest 10% under | Highest 10% over | Employed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Veterinarian | $130,100 | $62.55 | $73,920 | $215,700 | 91,100 |
| Veterinary technician | $47,380 | $22.78 | $35,710 | $63,180 | 131,400 |
| Veterinary assistant | $38,150 | $18.34 | $30,120 | $49,150 | 132,100 |
| Veterinary receptionistNo veterinary-specific BLS code | $38,010 | $18.27 | $13.83 an hour | $24.01 an hour | 947,500 |
They are national. They do not adjust for where you live, and the cost of living gap between metro areas is wide enough to move a real offer a long way from the median in either direction.
They are also a single number standing in for very different jobs. Emergency and specialty work, production or bonus structures, on-call rotas, relief work and practice ownership all sit inside the same occupation code. Two people on the same published median can be doing jobs that are not comparable.
The honest use of this page is as a reference point before a conversation, not as a number to quote at an employer. What a specific role pays depends on the practice, the caseload and the support behind it.
For a search we are actually running, a recruiter will describe the compensation structure along with the schedule, the caseload and the support, before you decide whether you want to be put forward. That is a conversation, not a published figure.
We do not publish what individual client practices pay. That is their commercial information. Any page that claims to know what a named practice pays is either guessing or repeating something it should not have.
BEGHR is paid by employers and never charges a candidate. How BEGHR works with veterinary professionals
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook, May 2025 estimates. Every figure on this page is linked to the BLS page it came from. Nothing is averaged from job adverts and nothing is estimated by BEGHR.
No, and that distinction matters. BLS publishes it as "the lowest 10 percent earned less than" a given amount. It is the line below which one in ten workers fall, not a floor. The top figure is the same idea in reverse.
BLS has no veterinary-specific receptionist occupation. The closest published code is receptionists and information clerks across all industries, so that figure covers far more than veterinary practices and its range is published hourly rather than annually. We show it with that stated rather than leaving the role out or implying a precision that does not exist.
For a live search we are running, yes, on a call. We describe the compensation structure, the schedule and the caseload before you decide whether to be put forward. We do not publish individual client practices’ pay, because that is their commercial information and not ours to post.
Not on its own. Caseload, on-call rota, support staffing, mentorship and production or bonus structure change what a number is worth. A figure quoted without the schedule and the support behind it is not comparable to another.
No. The employer pays the placement fee. BEGHR never charges a candidate, at any stage, for any role.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook Handbook, May 2025 estimates. Each role page links the exact BLS page and its last modified date.
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