Kennel Attendant Salary in Ohio

Ohio's figures sit below the national ones at every percentile, but the shortfall is not uniform.

It is deepest at the median — $30,310 against $35,360, $5,050 or 14% lower — and smallest at the 90th percentile, where $49,450 sits 1% below the national $50,060.

The 25th percentile is comparatively close, 4% below the national $29,820, while the 10th percentile falls further behind, 11% below the national $27,250.

The 75th percentile, $36,310, is 9% below the national $40,050.

Benchmarking an offer against the national median alone would overstate what the Ohio middle of this distribution pays.

Half of the Ohio workers counted earned between $28,490 and $36,310 — a 25th-to-75th band $7,820 wide, against $10,230 nationally.

The compression is not spread evenly: the stretch from the 25th percentile to the median runs $1,820, against $5,540 nationally, while the three other stretches are all wider than their national counterparts — the 10th-to-25th ($4,360 against $2,570), the median-to-75th ($6,000 against $4,690) and the 75th-to-90th ($13,140 against $10,010).

That is why the full 10th-to-90th span, $25,320, is wider than the national $22,810 even though the middle band is tighter.

The median sits $1,820 above the 25th percentile and $6,000 below the 75th, close to the bottom of its own band.

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 Ohio hourly median is $14.57, against $17.00 nationally — $2.43 less an hour, a 14% 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 9,350 animal caretakers were employed in Ohio across all industries — 9th of the 51 jurisdictions that publish a median, well above the state's 39th-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 pay levels.

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

In the same release, veterinary technologists and technicians in Ohio have a median of $47,990 — $17,680, or 58%, more than the all-industry animal caretaker median on this page, 1.6 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.