Veterinarian Salary in North Dakota

North Dakota's median veterinarian wage of $102,180 sits $27,920 below the national median of $130,100, a gap of 21%.

The hourly median tells the same story: $49.13 against $62.55 nationally, also 21% lower.

The distance is not even across the range.

At the 10th percentile North Dakota runs $7,500, or 10%, above the national floor of $73,920, and the state's 25th percentile of $88,610 is 13% below the national 25th percentile of $101,460.

The gap is widest at the 75th percentile: the North Dakota figure of $115,210 is 31% below the national 75th percentile of $166,120, easing slightly at the 90th percentile, where $153,720 is 29% below the national $215,700.

A veterinarian benchmarking a North Dakota offer against the national top of the range would be comparing against a figure the state distribution does not reach.

The middle half of North Dakota veterinarians — those between the 25th and 75th percentiles — earned between $88,610 and $115,210, a band $26,600 wide.

The same band nationally is $64,660 wide.

The full span from the 10th percentile ($81,420) to the 90th ($153,720) covers $72,300 in North Dakota, against $141,780 nationally.

Within that full 10th-to-90th span, the median of $102,180 sits closer to the floor than the ceiling.

A narrower spread leaves less room for an individual offer to sit far from the median in either direction, but OEWS does not publish what produces the shape, so this page draws no conclusion about why the North Dakota range is tight.

BLS estimates that 270 veterinarians were employed in North Dakota, 47th among the 49 jurisdictions that publish a median, so the percentiles on this page summarise a small group.

The figure is a headcount of people in jobs during the survey period, not a count of open positions, and it says nothing about how quickly any one employer fills a role.

A small count can also make each percentile more sensitive to a handful of individual wages than in a state with a larger workforce, so read the range on this page as a description of a small group, not a precise forecast for a single opening.

Practising veterinary medicine in North Dakota takes a license from the North Dakota Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners.

The route layers the board's own jurisprudence exam — a required passing score of 80 — on top of the NAVLE, and the sources read found no endorsement or reciprocity pathway for a veterinarian already licensed elsewhere.

Continuing education runs 24 hours every 24 months, measured against an even-year renewal date, while the license itself expires annually on June 30 — two cycles that don't obviously align, worth confirming with the board.

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