Kennel Attendant Salary in Hawaii

Hawaii sits above the national figure at every percentile, and the size of the lead depends on where you look.

Through the bottom half it is moderate: the 10th percentile is $31,100, 14% above the national $27,250; the 25th is $32,910, 10% above the national $29,820; the median, $40,130, is 13% above the national $35,360.

At the top the lead widens sharply: the 75th percentile, $51,810, is 29% above the national $40,050, and the 90th, $66,200, is 32% above the national $50,060.

In dollar terms the gap is smallest at the 25th percentile, $3,090, and largest at the 90th, $16,140.

Benchmarking an offer against the national median alone would miss how far the upper half of Hawaii's range pulls clear.

Half of Hawaii's animal caretakers earned between $32,910 and $51,810 — a band $18,900 wide, against $10,230 nationally.

The full 10th-to-90th span is $35,100, against $22,810 nationally, and the 90th percentile is 2.1 times the 10th, against 1.8 times nationally.

Where the extra width sits: the 10th-to-25th segment, $1,810, is actually narrower than the national $2,570; every other segment is wider — the 25th percentile to the median runs $7,220 against $5,540, the median to the 75th runs $11,680 against $4,690, and the 75th-to-90th runs $14,390 against $10,010.

The median sits $7,220 above the 25th percentile and $11,680 below the 75th, closer to the bottom of the band than the top.

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 Hawaii hourly median is $19.29, against $17.00 nationally — a 13% gap, matching the annual median, or $2.29 an hour.

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 570 animal caretakers were employed in Hawaii across all industries, 47th among the jurisdictions that publish an employment figure — against the 3rd-place rank the state's median holds.

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 Hawaii have a median of $48,550 — $8,420, or 21%, more than the all-industry animal caretaker median on this page, 1.2 times as much.

Hourly, the state's technician median is $23.34 against $19.29.

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 and not a raise anyone should expect.