Veterinarian Salary in New Hampshire

At the median, New Hampshire and the nation are close: $128,190 against $130,100, a difference of $1,910, or 1% below the national figure.

The hourly median tells a similar story at $61.63 against $62.55, also 1% below.

Away from the middle the picture splits.

The New Hampshire 10th percentile is $74,780, 1% above the national 10th percentile of $73,920, and the 25th percentile is $97,620, 4% below the national $101,460.

The 75th percentile, $161,180, sits 3% below the national $166,120 — but the 90th percentile breaks the pattern entirely: $283,460, 31% above the national 90th percentile of $215,700.

A veterinarian benchmarking an offer against the national top of the range would be comparing against a figure the New Hampshire data actually exceeds by a wide margin.

The middle half of New Hampshire veterinarians — between the 25th and 75th percentiles — earned between $97,620 and $161,180, a band $63,560 wide, close to the national band of $64,660.

The full 10th-to-90th span is a different story: from $74,780 to $283,460, a span of $208,680, well beyond the national span of $141,780.

Nearly all of that extra width sits above the median: the New Hampshire 90th percentile is 2.2 times the state median, while the national 90th percentile is only 1.7 times the national median.

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

BLS counted 650 veterinarians employed in New Hampshire in the May 2025 estimates, 34th among the 49 jurisdictions that publish a median, so the percentiles above describe a comparatively small group.

That headcount counts people in jobs during the survey period; it is not a count of open positions, and it says nothing about how many practices are hiring or how quickly a role gets filled.

A smaller counted workforce also means each individual response carries relatively more weight in the published percentiles, which is worth keeping in mind when reading a figure like the wide 90th percentile above.

Treat the employment estimate as a measure of the profession's size in New Hampshire, and nothing more.

New Hampshire licenses veterinarians through the Board of Veterinary Medicine, one of the boards under the Office of Professional Licensure and Certification.

The national examination anchors the route, with results valid for 5 years from the exam date, and New Hampshire's own statute sets no numeric passing score.

The chapter contains no dedicated reciprocity or endorsement clause for a veterinarian already licensed elsewhere, and the sources reviewed do not show whether a shorter route exists outside it — a relocating veterinarian should ask the board directly what an existing license can shorten.

An ECFVG candidate one step from certification can instead take a 2-year conditional license, with the state's own jurisprudence exam attached to that path.

Renewal runs on 24 hours of continuing education in the 2-year period preceding each renewal date, with a good-cause waiver available by petition.

Those steps hold regardless of where a job sits in the wage distribution above; the full New Hampshire license requirements page covers each one with its citation.