Kennel Attendant Salary in Rhode Island

Rhode Island is above the national figures at every percentile.

The lead is substantial at the floor: the 10th percentile, $31,510, is $4,260 — 16% — above the national $27,250, and the 25th percentile, $34,860, is $5,040, or 17%, above the national $29,820.

From there the lead narrows to its smallest at the middle — the median, $37,120, is $1,760, or 5%, above the national $35,360, the 5% in the headline.

Above the median it widens again at each point: the 75th percentile, $43,930, is $3,880, or 10%, above the national $40,050, and the 90th percentile, $63,120, is $13,060 — 26% — above the national $50,060, the largest relative gap anywhere in the comparison.

Benchmarking an offer against the national median alone would understate both the floor and the ceiling.

Half of the Rhode Island workers counted earned between $34,860 and $43,930 — a 25th-to-75th band $9,070 wide, against $10,230 nationally.

The full span from the 10th to the 90th percentile runs the other way: $31,610 against the national $22,810.

The four quarters do not all point the same way: the 10th-to-25th stretch is somewhat wider than the national one ($3,350 against $2,570), the 25th-to-median stretch is less than half as wide ($2,260 against $5,540), the median-to-75th stretch is wider ($6,810 against $4,690), and the 75th-to-90th stretch is nearly twice the national one ($19,190 against $10,010).

The median sits $2,260 above the 25th percentile and $6,810 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 Rhode Island hourly median is $17.85, against $17.00 nationally — $0.85, or 5%, more an hour, matching the annual gap.

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 1,020 animal caretakers were employed in Rhode Island across all industries — 45th of the 51 jurisdictions that publish a median, well below the state's 11th-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 Rhode Island have a median of $45,310 — $8,190, or 22%, more than the all-industry animal caretaker median on this page, 1.2 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.