Veterinarian Salary in Nebraska

Nebraska veterinarians trail the national wage picture at every percentile, but not by an even margin.

The median is $103,500 against a national median of $130,100 — $26,600, or 20%, below.

The smallest gaps sit at the 25th and 75th percentiles: 16% and 17% below the national figures there, both smaller than the 20% gap at the median.

The 10th percentile trails by 18%, close to the median's gap, and the widest gap by far is at the top: the Nebraska 90th percentile of $165,660 sits 23% below the national 90th percentile of $215,700.

The hourly figures track the median — $49.76 against a national $62.55, a 20% gap.

A veterinarian benchmarking a Nebraska offer against national figures should expect the closest comparison at the 25th and 75th percentiles, and the widest gap at the top of the range.

The middle half of Nebraska veterinarians — everyone between the 25th and 75th percentiles — earned between $85,660 and $138,170, a band $52,510 wide.

The same band nationally is $64,660 wide, so the Nebraska middle half sits inside a tighter range than the national one.

From the 10th percentile ($60,630) to the 90th ($165,660), Nebraska spans $105,030, against $141,780 nationally — again narrower.

Inside that middle band, the median sits closer to the floor than the ceiling: it is $17,840 above the 25th percentile but $34,670 below the 75th.

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

BLS estimates that 780 veterinarians were employed in Nebraska, 32nd 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 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 Nebraska takes a license from the Nebraska DHHS Division of Public Health, Licensure Unit under the Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act.

Section 38-3322 asks for graduation from an accredited school (or a board-approved educational-equivalence certificate) and an examination approved by the board — the statute never names the NAVLE by name — plus the Nebraska Jurisprudence Examination.

A veterinarian licensed in another U.S. state, territory, DC, or a Canadian province can qualify through the reciprocity route in Section 38-3327, which requires meeting the standards the board sets under Section 38-126 and at least a year of active practice within the preceding three years.

Licenses renew every two years, expiring April 1 of even-numbered years, against 32 hours of continuing education.

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