Veterinarian Salary in Florida

At the median, Florida sits just above the nation: $131,660 against $130,100, a difference of $1,560, or 1%.

The hourly figures track the same story — $63.30 against $62.55, also 1% higher — but the gap widens away from the middle.

Florida's 10th percentile is $62,430, 16% below the national 10th percentile of $73,920, and the 25th percentile is $83,790, 17% below the national $101,460.

The top of the range tells a different story: Florida's 75th percentile of $166,370 is almost identical to the national $166,120, and the 90th percentile of $209,520 is only 3% below the national $215,700.

A veterinarian benchmarking a Florida offer against national percentiles should expect the biggest gap at the lower end of the range, not at the median or the top.

The middle half of Florida veterinarians — those between the 25th and 75th percentiles — earned between $83,790 and $166,370, a band $82,580 wide.

The same band nationally is $64,660 wide.

From the 10th percentile ($62,430) to the 90th ($209,520), Florida spans $147,090, against $141,780 nationally.

Both the middle band and the full span are wider in Florida than nationally, even though the median itself is close to the national figure.

OEWS publishes the shape of the distribution, not the reasons behind it, so this page does not attribute the wider spread to any particular kind of practice or role within the profession.

BLS estimates 5,360 veterinarians employed in Florida, the 3rd-largest count among the 49 jurisdictions that publish a median.

That means the percentiles on this page summarise a substantial group of veterinarians rather than a small sample.

The employment figure is a headcount of people already working in the occupation during the survey period.

It is not a count of open positions, and it does not indicate how many roles are currently being filled, so read it only as the size of the profession in the state.

Florida licenses veterinarians through the Board of Veterinary Medicine, part of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation.

Every applicant must pass the NAVLE with a score of 425 and Florida's own computer-based Laws and Rules examination — or, for a clean-record endorsement applicant, a short course in its place.

Continuing education runs 30 hours every two years, and licenses renew on a fixed biennial cycle rather than an individual anniversary.

Those requirements are the same regardless of where a job sits in the wage distribution; the full Florida license requirements page covers each step with its citation.