Veterinarian Salary in New Jersey

New Jersey out-earns the national figures across the whole distribution, not just at the middle.

The 10th percentile is $103,720 against a national $73,920 — 40% higher, the widest gap on this page — while the 25th percentile is $126,480, 25% above the national $101,460.

At the median, New Jersey's $160,140 sits 23% above the national $130,100, and the hourly median tells a similar story at $76.99 against $62.55, a $14.44 gap.

The gap narrows through the middle of the range before widening again near the top: the 75th percentile is $202,930, 22% above national, and the 90th is $274,850, 27% above national.

A veterinarian weighing an offer against the national median of $130,100 alone would be measuring against a figure the New Jersey distribution clears at every percentile the data publishes.

The middle half of New Jersey veterinarians — everyone between the 25th and 75th percentiles — earned between $126,480 and $202,930, a band $76,450 wide.

The same band nationally is $64,660 wide, so the New Jersey middle half spans more ground than the national one.

From the 10th percentile ($103,720) to the 90th ($274,850), New Jersey spans $171,130, against $141,780 nationally — wider at both ends, not just the top.

Within the band, the median sits closer to the floor than the ceiling: $33,660 above the 25th percentile but $42,790 below the 75th.

OEWS publishes the shape of a distribution, not what drives it, so this page does not assign the spread to any particular kind of practice.

BLS estimates that 1,910 veterinarians were employed in New Jersey, ranking 18th among the 49 jurisdictions that publish a median — a workforce large enough that the percentiles on this page summarise many practices rather than a handful.

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 counted in the state and nothing more.

Practising veterinary medicine in New Jersey takes a license from the State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners.

The route runs through the NAVLE first, then New Jersey's own Jurisprudence Examination — free, taken online, available 24/7, with a 70.0 passing score — and a graduate of a nonaccredited program must complete ECFVG or PAVE before sitting it.

Licenses renew every two years; the sources read for this page never give a continuing-education hour count behind that renewal.

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