Veterinarian Salary in Hawaii

At the median, Hawaii and the nation are almost identical: $130,120 against $130,100, a difference of 0%.

The hourly figures match just as closely, $62.56 against $62.55.

Move away from the median and the two distributions diverge unevenly.

The Hawaii 25th percentile is 2% above the national 25th percentile, but the 75th percentile is 19% below the national 75th — the widest gap on this page — and the 90th percentile narrows that gap back to 13% below.

The 10th percentile sits 16% below the national 10th.

A veterinarian benchmarking a Hawaii offer against the national median alone would see near parity, but that parity does not carry through the rest of the range.

The middle half of Hawaii veterinarians — between the 25th and 75th percentiles — earned between $103,760 and $134,000, a band $30,240 wide.

Nationally, the same band is $64,660 wide, far wider than Hawaii's.

Most of that gap sits just above the median: only $3,880 separates the median from the 75th percentile, compared with a $26,360 gap between the 25th percentile and the median.

From the 10th percentile ($62,460) to the 90th ($188,130), Hawaii spans $125,670, against $141,780 nationally — a smaller difference than the middle-band comparison shows.

OEWS publishes the distribution, not the reasons for it, so this page does not assign the compressed middle to any particular kind of practice.

BLS estimates 370 veterinarians employed in Hawaii, 17th among the 49 jurisdictions that publish a median by pay but only 44th by employment — a small workforce even though the median lands close to the national figure.

That gap between the two ranks is a reminder that a state's median can track the national number while still describing a narrow group of jobs.

The employment figure is a headcount of people in jobs during the survey period, not a count of open positions, and it says nothing about how quickly any employer fills a role.

Read the percentiles on this page as a summary of that smaller group, not a large national sample.

Practising veterinary medicine in Hawaii takes a license from the Hawaii Board of Veterinary Medicine under HRS Chapter 471.

Every applicant must pass the board's own examination — the statute never names the NAVLE, though the board is understood to use it in practice, a detail not confirmed in the sources read — and qualify through an AVMA-standard veterinary degree or, in place of it, ten of the last twelve years of active practice in a comparably-licensing state.

No formal endorsement or reciprocity clause appears in the chapter text read, so an out-of-state veterinarian planning to relocate should expect to sit Hawaii's own exam.

Licenses renew every two years, with a 20-hour continuing-education requirement noted in the sources read, though not restated in the statute text itself.

Those steps are the same wherever a job sits in the wage distribution; the full Hawaii license requirements page covers each one with its citation.