Kennel Attendant Salary in North Carolina

North Carolina sits below the national figures at every percentile, and the two deepest gaps are at the floor and the middle.

The 10th percentile, $23,210, is 15% below the national $27,250, and the median, $30,870, is 13% below the national $35,360.

In between, the 25th percentile is nearly level: $28,540, just 4% below the national $29,820.

Higher up, the 75th percentile, $35,990, is 10% below the national $40,050, and the 90th percentile, $46,120, is 8% below the national $50,060.

Benchmarking an offer against the national median alone would miss how level the state 25th percentile is.

Half of the North Carolina workers counted earned between $28,540 and $35,990 — a 25th-to-75th band $7,450 wide, against $10,230 nationally.

The full span from the 10th to the 90th percentile is $22,910, essentially level with the national $22,810, because what the middle band gives up reappears underneath it: the gap between the 10th and 25th percentiles runs $5,330 in North Carolina against $2,570 nationally.

The median sits $2,330 above the 25th percentile and $5,120 below the 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 North Carolina hourly median is $14.84, against $17.00 nationally — a 13% 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 9,730 animal caretakers were employed in North Carolina across all industries — 8th of the 51 jurisdictions that publish a median, far above the state 33rd-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 says nothing about wages above the median or about 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 North Carolina have a median of $47,620 — $16,750, or 54%, more than the all-industry animal caretaker median on this page, 1.5 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.