The problem we set out to solve
Clinics have been short on veterinary staff for years, and the shortage is widely reported. Yet the profession has mostly hired through general-purpose job sites.
Type “vet tech” into one of those and you get HVAC techs, pharmacy techs and IT support mixed in with the real openings. A hospital advertising for a credentialed technician ends up buried under warehouse and retail postings.
The result is two groups hunting for each other and missing: techs and DVMs who can't surface the right jobs, and practices whose ads never reach them.
I built VeterinaryHires because that gap looked fixable. A job board that only lists animal-health roles doesn't have to guess what “tech” means, and it can put the answers people actually need right next to the openings.
So alongside every search sits the context behind it: what a credentialed technician may do in your state, what the role typically pays, and which license you'd need before you move.
For a clinic, it means an opening that reaches people who already work with animals, not a stack of résumés from people who clicked the wrong “tech” ad.
The person behind it
Gabriel Meierotto
Founder, VeterinaryHires
LinkedIn →My name is Gabriel Meierotto, and I started VeterinaryHires.
My background is in multi-location healthcare. I spent six years at LaserAway, a national aesthetic dermatology chain, and left at the end of 2023 as its Director of Conversion Rate Optimization.
That job sat on the commercial side of the company: how people pick a provider, how new locations get off the ground, and how a clinic group finds and holds on to the staff it depends on.
That last part is what carried over. A clinic network hires constantly, and the same patterns kept showing up: roles that sat open for months, pay packages that were hard to compare from one offer to the next, and good people who left because nobody could show them where the job led.
After LaserAway I stepped away to focus on my health. When I came back to work, I started building job boards for specialized healthcare fields, and veterinary medicine stood out: hospitals short on techs and DVMs, a credential system that differs by state, and no job site built only for the profession.
A clear disclaimer up front: I hold no DVM, no vet tech credential and no clinical license of any kind.
I have never provided care to an animal. Please don't read anything published here as veterinary advice, medical advice or a clinical review.
What I work on is the hiring and business end of veterinary practice.
Whenever a guide gets into scope of practice, credentials or state law, it leans on the official sources listed further down this page — not on my say-so, and not on what someone remembers.
Where the listings come from
A job reaches this board one of two ways. Most are collected from hospital and practice-group career sites and public job feeds, which we re-check on a rolling basis. The rest are posted by employers themselves through our Post a Job form.
For collected jobs, the Apply button always points to the employer's original posting, so your application goes to them, not to us.
The one paid placement is Featured: a Featured listing, or any job on the Brand group plan, sits at the top of the feed and is labelled with a “Featured” badge. Apart from that, nobody can buy a higher rank.
The rules behind our guides
Much of what we publish is about credentialing, what each role is legally allowed to do, and what it pays. A mistake on any of those can cost a vet tech or a DVM real money or a license problem.
These are the standards every guide has to meet:
- No state-level licensing or legal statement goes live until we have checked it against the original source: the state veterinary board itself, the governing statute or administrative rule, or guidance the board has published.
- Pages about regulations show a “last verified” date, so you can judge how fresh the information is.
- Pay figures always name where they came from — salaries posted in VeterinaryHires listings, or government-published data. We don’t make numbers up.
- When a figure moves around a lot, we explain the range and the drivers instead of printing one number that will be out of date in half a year.
You also won't see a “medically reviewed” tag on a page here unless an actual licensed clinician, named on the page, has gone through it.
We don't invent reviewers or dress up a page with a made-up panel of experts.
Our guides are for general information; they are not legal or veterinary advice.
If you are making a call about your license, what you may do in practice, or how to set up a business, check with your state veterinary board or a qualified professional first.
Found something wrong?
State boards change their rules, pay moves, and job postings close. If you catch an outdated requirement, an old salary number or a dead listing, please tell me.
Write to [email protected] and I'll look into it and fix what needs fixing.
Keeping this information accurate is ongoing work, and reader reports are a big part of it.