Veterinarian Salary in Louisiana

At the median, Louisiana trails the nation by $5,730, or 4%: $124,370 against $130,100.

The hourly figures move the same way — $59.79 against $62.55, also a 4% gap.

Every other percentile trails by a wider margin than the median does, but not evenly: the Louisiana 10th percentile is 12% below the national 10th, the 25th is 22% below the national 25th, the 75th is 15% below the national 75th, and the 90th is 23% below the national 90th.

A veterinarian benchmarking an offer against the national 90th percentile of $215,700 would be comparing it to a figure the Louisiana distribution does not reach; the Louisiana 90th percentile is $165,560.

The middle half of Louisiana veterinarians — everyone between the 25th and 75th percentiles — earned between $78,660 and $141,140, a band $62,480 wide.

Nationally the same band is $64,660 wide, so the middle of the Louisiana distribution is only slightly narrower than the national one.

The full span tells a different story: from the 10th percentile ($64,690) to the 90th ($165,560), Louisiana spans $100,870, against $141,780 nationally.

The state's floor and ceiling sit much closer together than the nation's do, even though its middle band is close to national width.

OEWS publishes the shape of the distribution, not the reasons behind it, so this page does not assign the compression to any particular kind of practice.

BLS estimates that 950 veterinarians were employed in Louisiana, 30th among the 49 jurisdictions that publish a median — closer to the smaller half of the list than the larger one.

The percentiles on this page summarize that group, not a handful of practices, though it is a modest count next to the largest jurisdictions on the list.

The figure is a headcount of people in jobs during the survey period.

It is not a count of open positions, and it says nothing about how quickly any one employer fills a role, so read it as the size of the profession in the state and nothing more.

Practising veterinary medicine in Louisiana takes a license from the Board of Veterinary Medicine (LBVM).

The route pairs the NAVLE with the Board's own State Board Exam, a 30-minute, 26-question jurisprudence test that requires a passing score of at least 70 and can be taken either before or after the NAVLE.

Both ECFVG and PAVE are accepted for foreign-trained graduates.

Licenses renew every year, with a minimum of 20 hours of continuing education each fiscal year.

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