Veterinarian Salary in Kansas

At the median, Kansas trails the nation by $23,020 — $107,080 against $130,100, an 18% gap.

The hourly figures track it closely: $51.48 in Kansas against $62.55 nationally, also 18% lower.

The gap is not an even discount across the distribution.

Kansas's 10th percentile, $71,200, sits closest to the national floor of $73,920, just 4% below it.

The gap widens through the middle — 15% below at the 25th percentile and 18% at the median — and opens furthest at the 75th percentile, where Kansas's $129,870 runs 22% below the national $166,120.

At the 90th percentile it narrows back to 18%, Kansas's $177,110 against $215,700 nationally.

A veterinarian in Kansas benchmarking an offer against a national percentile should expect the comparison to shift depending on which part of the range they're looking at, not a single flat discount.

The middle half of Kansas veterinarians — between the 25th and 75th percentiles — earned between $86,250 and $129,870, a band $43,620 wide.

The same band nationally runs $64,660 wide, from $101,460 to $166,120.

Inside the Kansas band, the median sits $20,830 above the 25th percentile and $22,790 below the 75th.

From the 10th percentile ($71,200) to the 90th ($177,110), Kansas spans $105,910, against a national span of $141,780.

A narrower spread leaves less room for a Kansas offer to land far from the median in either direction than the national numbers alone would suggest.

OEWS publishes the shape of a state's distribution, not what drives it, so this page does not attribute the narrower Kansas band to any particular kind of practice.

BLS estimates that 1,000 veterinarians were employed in Kansas, 28th of the 49 jurisdictions that publish a veterinarian median — a middling position even though the median wage itself ranks 40th of 49.

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

It is not a count of open roles, and it says nothing about how many positions employers are trying to fill or how quickly they fill them.

Read it only as the measured size of the profession in Kansas, not as a signal of hiring activity or ease of finding work.

Practicing veterinary medicine in Kansas takes a license from the Kansas Board of Veterinary Examiners.

Every applicant passes the NAVLE, scored against a bar the Board's own rule sets at 70 or better on each national test — a figure on the Board's own scale, which may not match the scale the exam currently reports scores on, so confirm the current passing threshold with the Board — plus a separate Kansas jurisprudence exam scored to a bar of at least 90.

No separate reciprocity or endorsement pathway appears in the sources read — a veterinarian already licensed elsewhere appears to follow the same exam sequence as a first-time applicant.

Licenses renew every year on June 30, backed by 20 hours of continuing education, with a $100 renewal fee on time and $200 late.

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