Counted October 23, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
Certified Veterinary Technician: $54K median posted pay.
From 15 salary bands employers posted on 28 open certified veterinary technician roles in healthcare. Never an estimate.
The ladder, by level
What each rung pays.
No level is named often enough in these postings to build a ladder.
Levels as the postings name them. A rung shows a median only where eight or more postings at that level carried a band.
Who is hiring
The employers with the most open.
| Employer | Open roles | Entry level |
|---|---|---|
| Alliance Animal Health | 23 | — |
| Destinationpet | 4 | — |
| NOVA Cat Clinic | 1 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open certified veterinary technician roles tonight.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Specimen Collection | 20 | — |
| Triage | 20 | — |
| Radiologic Imaging | 19 | — |
| Veterinary Care | 17 | — |
| Dental Assisting | 11 | — |
| Customer Service | 7 | — |
| Pain Management | 4 | — |
| Laboratory Testing | 4 | — |
| Behavioral Health Support | 3 | — |
| Wound Care | 3 | — |
Where the work is
0% of these roles are remote.
- Remote0%0 roles
- Hybrid0%0 roles
- On site96%27 roles
- Not stated4%1 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 28 open postings read from employers’ own job boards on October 23, 2026, and recounted every night. Pay is the band the employer posted — never an estimate, never a model — and 15 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior Certified Veterinary Technician (Nights)” counts here too. 100% of roles with this title sit in healthcare, which is why this page belongs to that career. A title gets a page only where twenty-five or more roles are open, eight or more of them posted a band, three or more employers are hiring for it and four in five of its postings sit in one career, so no page here is a guess.