Kennel Attendant Salary in Idaho

Idaho sits below the national figures at every percentile, but the margins are not uniform.

The gap is deepest at the floor: the 10th percentile, $22,000, is 19% below the national $27,250.

One step up, the 25th percentile, $28,990, is just 3% below the national $29,820 — nearly level.

The median is 9% lower.

Higher up, the 75th percentile, $35,850, is 10% below the national $40,050, and the 90th percentile, $46,990, is 6% below the national $50,060.

Benchmarking an offer against the national median alone would miss how much shallower the shortfall is just above the bottom.

Half of the Idaho animal caretakers counted earned between $28,990 and $35,850 — a band $6,860 wide, against $10,230 nationally.

The full span runs the other way: from the 10th to the 90th percentile it is $24,990, wider than the national $22,810, because the floor drops far below while the middle holds together.

The median sits $3,180 above the 25th percentile and $3,680 below the 75th.

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

The Idaho hourly median is $15.47, against $17.00 nationally — a $1.53 gap, or 9%, matching the annual median's shortfall.

The data set carries hourly pay at the median only, so it is the single 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 1,760 animal caretakers were employed in Idaho across all industries — 38th of the 51 jurisdictions by headcount, while the state's median wage ranks 28th.

The estimate counts people in jobs during the survey period, not openings, and it covers the whole occupation, not any one slice of it.

BLS publishes no state count of how many of these workers are in veterinary settings, and the row carries no data that would split one out.

In the same release, veterinary technologists and technicians in Idaho have a median of $42,120 — $9,950, or 31%, more than the all-industry animal caretaker median on this page, or 1.3 times as much.

Hour for hour, the technician median is $20.25 against $15.47.

The comparison sets a veterinary occupation against one that spans all industries, so it is context for someone weighing a move into technician work: two occupations counting different workers, not a raise anyone should expect.