Kennel Attendant Salary in South Carolina

South Carolina's figures sit below the national ones at every percentile.

The shortfall is deepest at the floor: the 10th percentile, $22,880, is $4,370 or 16% below the national $27,250.

The 25th percentile comes closest — $28,100 against $29,820, just $1,720 or 6% below — before the gap widens again at the median, $4,080 or 12% below the national $35,360.

From there it narrows in percentage terms: the 75th percentile, $36,570, is $3,480 or 9% below the national $40,050, and the 90th percentile, $46,160, is $3,900 or 8% below the national $50,060 — the dollar gap widens slightly at the top ($3,480 to $3,900) even as the percentage narrows.

Benchmarking an offer against the national figures alone would overstate pay at every point of this distribution.

Half of the South Carolina workers counted earned between $28,100 and $36,570 — a 25th-to-75th band $8,470 wide, against $10,230 nationally.

The compression is not even: the stretch from the 10th to the 25th percentile runs $5,220, against $2,570 nationally, and the median-to-75th stretch is wider too, $5,290 against $4,690, while the other two stretches narrow — the 25th-to-median at $3,180 against $5,540, and the 75th-to-90th at $9,590 against $10,010.

That mix is why the full 10th-to-90th span, $23,280, edges out the national $22,810 even though the middle band is tighter.

Inside the band the median sits low: $3,180 above the 25th percentile and $5,290 below the 75th, where 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 South Carolina hourly median is $15.04, against $17.00 nationally — $1.96 less an hour, a 12% 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 4,090 animal caretakers were employed in South Carolina across all industries — 25th of the 51 jurisdictions that publish a median, several places above the state's 31st-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 South Carolina have a median of $39,020 — $7,740, or 25%, 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.