Kennel Attendant Salary in North Dakota

North Dakota's position against the national figures changes twice across the distribution.

At the floor it is ahead: the 10th percentile, $29,960, is 10% above the national $27,250, and the 25th percentile, $31,050, is 4% above the national $29,820.

Through the middle it falls behind: the median, $34,040, is 4% below the national $35,360, and the 75th percentile, $38,640, is 4% below the national $40,050.

Then the gap reverses again — the North Dakota 90th percentile, $62,170, is 24% above the national $50,060, the largest gap anywhere in the comparison.

Benchmarking an offer against the national median alone would miss both the higher floor and the much higher ceiling.

Half of the North Dakota workers counted earned between $31,050 and $38,640 — a 25th-to-75th band $7,590 wide, against $10,230 nationally.

The full span from the 10th to the 90th percentile runs the other way: $32,210 against the national $22,810.

Every dollar of that extra width sits between the 75th and 90th percentiles, which spans $23,530 against the national $10,010, while the lower three segments of the distribution are each narrower than or essentially level with their national counterparts.

The median sits $2,990 above the 25th percentile and $4,600 below the 75th, low in 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 North Dakota hourly median is $16.37, against $17.00 nationally — a 4% 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 770 animal caretakers were employed in North Dakota across all industries — 46th of the 51 jurisdictions that publish a median, well below the state's 24th-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 North Dakota have a median of $48,790 — $14,750, or 43%, 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.