Veterinarian Salary in Mississippi

Mississippi's median annual wage of $105,370 sits $24,730, or 19%, below the national median of $130,100, and the hourly median tells nearly the same story: $50.66 against $62.55, a 19% gap.

That gap is not constant across the distribution.

At the 10th percentile, Mississippi is only 5% below the national figure — $70,050 against $73,920.

Move up the range and the gap widens: 15% at the 25th percentile, 19% at the median, 22% at the 75th percentile, and 24% at the 90th percentile, where Mississippi's $163,040 compares with a national $215,700.

A veterinarian benchmarking a Mississippi offer against national figures should expect the comparison to look closer at the bottom of the range than at the top.

The middle half of Mississippi veterinarians — between the 25th and 75th percentiles — earned between $85,780 and $129,370, a band $43,590 wide, against a national band of $64,660.

From the 10th percentile ($70,050) to the 90th ($163,040), Mississippi spans $92,990, compared with $141,780 nationally.

The median of $105,370 sits just below the midpoint of that middle band, closer to the floor than the ceiling.

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

BLS reports Mississippi's hourly median at $50.66, against a national hourly median of $62.55 — a 19% gap, matching the annual figure almost exactly.

The dataset carries hourly pay only at the median, with no hourly breakdown at the other percentiles, so an hourly posting can only be checked against this one figure, not against where it would land in the wider range.

A rate close to $50.66 sits at the middle of Mississippi's distribution, while the national hourly median of $62.55 marks the middle of the national one.

BLS estimates that 480 veterinarians were employed in Mississippi, 40th among the 49 jurisdictions that publish a median, so the percentiles on this page summarize a comparatively small group.

The figure is a headcount of people employed during the survey period, not a count of open positions, and it says nothing about how many employers exist or how quickly any one of them fills a role.

Read it as the size of the profession counted in the state, and nothing more.

Mississippi licenses veterinarians through the Mississippi Board of Veterinary Medicine.

The route runs national exam scores — NAVLE, or the legacy NBE and CCT pair — submitted through AAVSB, plus a state board examination on the Mississippi Veterinary Practice Act and the AVMA's Principles of Veterinary Medical Ethics, delivered as 100 questions, open-book.

An applicant already licensed elsewhere applies through Section 73-39-71, showing good moral character, licensure in at least one U.S. jurisdiction, and discipline-free practice immediately before filing — and still sits the state board examination, since that requirement reaches any applicant not yet licensed in Mississippi.

Licenses renew every August 1 against 15 hours of continuing education a year.

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