Kennel Attendant Salary in Georgia

Georgia sits below the national figures at every point in the distribution, but the gap is not uniform.

It is widest at the floor: the 10th percentile, $21,370, is 22% below the national $27,250.

The 25th percentile is much closer — $28,040 against $29,820, 6% lower — before the gap widens again at the median, $29,860 against $35,360, and at the 75th percentile, $34,950 against $40,050, 13% lower.

At the 90th percentile it narrows to $2,800, 6% below the national $50,060.

A benchmark that only checks the median misses how deep the Georgia floor falls and how close the top end sits.

Half of the Georgia workers counted earned between $28,040 and $34,950 — a band $6,910 wide, against $10,230 nationally.

The full span from the 10th to the 90th percentile runs the other way: $25,890 in Georgia against $22,810 nationally, because the Georgia floor reaches much deeper while the top end nearly holds.

The median sits just $1,820 above the 25th percentile and $5,090 below the 75th, so the typical figure sits low in its own band.

OEWS does not publish why a distribution has this shape, and this row spans every industry, so this page does not assign it a cause.

The Georgia hourly median is $14.36, against $17.00 nationally — a 16% gap, matching the annual median.

The data set carries hourly pay at the median only, so it is the figure to hold an hourly posting against.

Before comparing a posted rate with the annual percentiles, ask how many hours a week the role is scheduled.

BLS estimates 9,110 animal caretakers were employed in Georgia across all industries, 10th among the 51 jurisdictions that publish a median.

That is a much larger workforce than the 44th-place median rank on this page.

The estimate is a headcount of people in jobs during the survey period, not a count of openings, and BLS publishes no state count of how many of them work in veterinary settings.

In the same release, veterinary technologists and technicians in Georgia have a median of $43,060 — $13,200, or 44%, more than the all-industry animal caretaker median on this page.

The comparison sets a veterinary occupation against one that spans all industries, so it is context for someone weighing a move into technician work, not a measure of what veterinary kennel work pays.