Counted October 17, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
Veterinary Technician: $59K median posted pay.
From 28 salary bands employers posted on 74 open veterinary technician roles in healthcare. Never an estimate.
The ladder, by level
What each rung pays.
| Level | Open roles | Median posted band | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mid | 3 | — (3 of 8 bands) | — |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Veritas Veterinary Partners | 22 | — |
| EVG Specialty Network | 18 | — |
| Wisconsin | 6 | — |
| vcsg | 5 | — |
| Colorado State University | 4 | — |
| Louisiana State University | 4 | — |
| Heart + Paw | 2 | — |
| Iowastate | 2 | — |
| Tamus (System Wide External) | 2 | — |
| Iowa State University | 2 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open veterinary technician roles tonight.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Veterinary Care | 70 | — |
| Veterinary Medicine | 51 | — |
| Critical Care | 28 | — |
| Phlebotomy | 23 | — |
| Behavioral Health Support | 22 | — |
| Anesthesia Monitoring | 17 | — |
| Triage | 12 | — |
| Medication Administration | 12 | — |
| CPR and Basic Life Support | 10 | — |
| Benefits Administration | 10 | — |
Where the work is
0% of these roles are remote.
- Remote0%0 roles
- Hybrid0%0 roles
- On site95%70 roles
- Not stated5%4 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 74 open postings read from employers’ own job boards on October 17, 2026, and recounted every night. Pay is the band the employer posted — never an estimate, never a model — and 28 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior 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.