Kennel Attendant Salary in New Jersey

New Jersey's figures sit above the national ones at every percentile except the 90th, and the advantage is widest at the floor.

The 10th percentile, $32,220, is 18% above the national $27,250; the 25th percentile, $34,110, is 14% above the national $29,820; the median is 1% above.

The 75th percentile, $42,340, is 6% above the national $40,050.

Only the 90th percentile falls short: $49,620, 1% below the national $50,060.

An offer benchmarked against the national median alone would understate how far above the national floor this distribution starts.

Half of the New Jersey workers counted earned between $34,110 and $42,340 — a 25th-to-75th band $8,230 wide, against $10,230 nationally.

The full span from the 10th to the 90th percentile is $17,400, well short of the national $22,810: the floor starts well above the national one and the top ends at almost exactly the national 90th percentile.

The median sits $1,740 above the 25th percentile and $6,490 below the 75th, much closer to the bottom of its own band; the national median sits $5,540 above its 25th and $4,690 below its 75th.

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 New Jersey hourly median is $17.24, against $17.00 nationally — a 1% gap, matching the annual median.

The data set carries hourly pay at the median only, so this 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 5,890 animal caretakers were employed in New Jersey across all industries — 19th of the 51 jurisdictions that publish a median, a little below the state's 17th-place rank by median wage.

The estimate is a headcount of people in jobs during the survey period, not a count of openings, and it measures neither wages above the median nor the hiring market.

BLS publishes no state count of how many of them work in veterinary settings.

In the same release, veterinary technologists and technicians in New Jersey have a median of $49,050 — $13,200, or 37%, more than the all-industry animal caretaker median on this page, 1.4 times as much.

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 — the two figures count different workers.