Kennel Attendant Salary in Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania sits below the national figures at every percentile, and the gaps do not move in one direction.

The 10th percentile, $23,430, is 14% below the national $27,250 — the deepest gap in percentage terms in the state distribution.

The 25th percentile is closer to the national line, $28,400, 5% below the national $29,820, before the median falls back to 11% below the national $35,360.

The 75th percentile, $36,450, is 9% below the national $40,050, and the 90th percentile, $47,960, is 4% below the national $50,060 — the shallowest gap in percentage terms.

Benchmarking an offer against a single national figure would mislead here: against the matching national percentile, the shortfall swings between 4% and 14% across the distribution.

Half of the Pennsylvania workers counted earned between $28,400 and $36,450 — a 25th-to-75th band $8,050 wide, against $10,230 nationally.

The full span runs the other way: from the 10th to the 90th percentile is $24,530, wider than the national $22,810, because the gaps outside the middle band are wider on both sides — below it the 10th-to-25th gap runs $4,970 against $2,570 nationally, and above it the 75th-to-90th gap runs $11,510 against $10,010.

The median sits $2,960 above the 25th percentile and $5,090 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 Pennsylvania hourly median is $15.08, against $17.00 nationally — an 11% 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 9,910 animal caretakers were employed in Pennsylvania across all industries — 7th of the 51 jurisdictions that publish a median, far above the state 30th-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 Pennsylvania have a median of $46,430 — $15,070, or 48%, 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.