Veterinarian Salary in Idaho

Idaho's median annual wage of $116,170 sits $13,930, or 11%, below the national median of $130,100, and the hourly figures tell the same story — $55.85 against $62.55, also 11% lower.

That 11% gap does not hold steady across the distribution.

The 25th percentile is where the two distributions come closest: Idaho's $101,510 against the national $101,460, a gap of 0%.

Move toward either tail and the gap widens.

The 10th percentile shows the widest gap on the page — Idaho's $43,290 sits 41% below the national $73,920 — and the top of the range diverges too, with the 75th percentile 18% below national and the 90th percentile 22% below.

A veterinarian benchmarking an Idaho offer against a national percentile figure should expect the closest match near the 25th percentile and the largest gap at the bottom of the range.

The middle half of Idaho veterinarians — everyone between the 25th and 75th percentiles — earned between $101,510 and $137,010, a band $35,500 wide.

The same band nationally is $64,660 wide.

Within that band, the median of $116,170 sits $14,660 above the 25th percentile and $20,840 below the 75th, closer to the floor of the middle band than the ceiling.

From the 10th percentile ($43,290) to the 90th ($168,840), Idaho spans $125,550, against $141,780 nationally.

A narrower middle band means a typical Idaho offer has less room to sit far from the median than a national one does, even though the 10th percentile diverges far more sharply from the national floor than the rest of the range.

OEWS publishes the distribution, not the reasons for it, so this page does not attribute the shape to any particular kind of practice or employer.

BLS estimates that 540 veterinarians were employed in Idaho, 37th among the 49 jurisdictions that publish a median, so the percentiles on this page summarise a small workforce rather than a large one.

The 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 one employer fills a role.

Read it as the size of the profession counted in the state during the survey period, and nothing more — OEWS does not publish the causes of the wage shape described above.

Practising veterinary medicine in Idaho takes a license from the Idaho Board of Veterinary Medicine at DOPL.

Applicants who do not qualify for endorsement submit passing scores on the national examinations approved by the board — the NAVLE — alongside an accredited degree or ECFVG/PAVE certification; the sources read for this page do not identify a separate Idaho jurisprudence exam.

Endorsement is open to military members, veterans and their spouses, and to any applicant already licensed in another U.S. jurisdiction for the three years before applying.

Renewal calls for 15 hours of continuing education a cycle, and Idaho's move to biennial, birthday-based renewal was still phasing in as of September 2026 — the Board's own notice said biennial renewal is not yet a reality.

Those steps apply the same way wherever a job sits in the wage distribution above; the full Idaho license requirements page covers each one with its citation.