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Am I underpaid?

Your hourly rate against everyone doing your job in your state, from the federal wage survey. One number in, your percentile out.

Salaried? Divide the annual figure by 2,080.

Nothing you type is stored. Source: BLS OEWS May 2025.

What you get

A sentence like "You earn more than about 62% of vet techs in Texas," your dot on the state ladder, the national figure, three nearby states, and a link to the jobs in your state that pay more than you do.

For reference, the national vet tech ladder (BLS May 2025): 10th percentile $17.17, median $22.78, 90th $30.38 an hour, or $47,380 a year at the median.

How we built this. BLS publishes the 10th percentile, median and 90th percentile wage by state for veterinary technologists and technicians (29-2056) and for veterinary assistants and laboratory animal caretakers (31-9096), and the full 10/25/50/75/90 ladder nationally (May 2025 release). We estimate a state's 25th and 75th percentiles by applying the national distribution's shape to the state's published points, and interpolate your percentile linearly between the five rungs. Below the 10th or above the 90th, the answer is capped at "about 5%" or "about 95%" rather than extrapolated. Receptionists, practice managers and kennel staff get a national veterinary-services median only, because BLS does not publish those roles by state. The survey covers employees of all experience levels and settings, so your result is a market position, not a judgment of your work.

Questions people ask

How is my percentile calculated?

Your hourly rate is placed on the BLS May 2025 ladder for your role and state (10th, 25th, median, 75th and 90th percentile) by linear interpolation between the published points. BLS publishes the 10th, median and 90th by state; the 25th and 75th are estimated from the national shape of the distribution.

Is a percentile of 50 good?

It means half of the people in that job in your state earn less than you and half earn more, across every experience level and setting. A new graduate at the 50th percentile is doing well; a 15-year emergency tech at the 50th percentile is probably underpaid for the setting.

Does this include credentialed and uncredentialed techs?

Yes. BLS does not split pay by credential, specialty or shift. The anonymous VetTeamJobs pay survey collects those fields so that split can be published once enough people in a state have answered.