Kennel Attendant Salary in New York

The lead over the national figures is widest at the bottom of the distribution, shrinks to its smallest at the median, widens slightly at the 75th percentile, then reverses at the 90th.

The New York 10th percentile, $33,800, is $6,550 — 24% — above the national $27,250, and the 25th percentile, $35,640, is $5,820, or 20%, above the national $29,820 — high enough to clear the national median of $35,360.

At the middle the lead is at its narrowest — $2,480, the 7% in the headline — and the 75th percentile, $43,780, is $3,730, or 9%, above the national $40,050.

At the top the ordering flips: the New York 90th percentile, $48,740, is $1,320 — 3% — below the national $50,060.

Benchmarked percentile by percentile, every New York figure from the 25th upward clears its national counterpart except the 90th.

Half of the New York animal caretakers counted earned between $35,640 and $43,780 — a 25th-to-75th band $8,140 wide, against $10,230 nationally.

The full 10th-to-90th span is $14,940, well under the national $22,810, and the compression sits below the median: from the 10th percentile to the median New York spreads $4,040, against $8,110 nationally.

Above the median the distribution opens — the $5,940 stretch to the 75th percentile is wider than any stretch below it — though no segment reaches the national $10,010 gap from the 75th to the 90th percentile.

The median sits $2,200 above the 25th percentile.

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 York hourly median is $18.19, against $17.00 nationally — a 7% 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 12,470 animal caretakers were employed in New York across all industries, 4th among the 51 jurisdictions in the release.

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 New York have a median of $59,010 — $21,170, or 56%, 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.