Veterinarian Salary in Utah

The Utah median of $123,990 sits $6,110, or 5%, below the national median of $130,100, and the hourly median follows the same pattern: $59.61 against a national $62.55, a $2.94 gap that is also 5% lower.

The rest of the distribution does not move in that direction.

The Utah 10th percentile is $75,970, 3% above the national 10th percentile of $73,920, while the 25th percentile is $99,560, 2% below the national 25th percentile of $101,460.

At the 75th percentile Utah pulls back ahead at $168,690, 2% above the national $166,120, and the 90th percentile is $215,720, almost exactly matching the national 90th percentile of $215,700.

A veterinarian comparing an offer to national figures should check which percentile the offer sits near, rather than assume the median's 5% gap applies evenly across the whole range.

The middle half of Utah veterinarians — everyone between the 25th and 75th percentiles — earned between $99,560 and $168,690, a band $69,130 wide.

The same band nationally is $64,660 wide, so the Utah middle half covers more ground.

That extra width is not split evenly around the median: the median sits $24,430 above the 25th percentile but $44,700 below the 75th percentile, a wider gap upward than the $28,640-to-$36,020 split in the national numbers.

The wider middle band does not carry to the extremes — the Utah 10th-to-90th span is $139,750, close to the national $141,780.

OEWS publishes the shape of the distribution, not the reasons behind it, so this page does not attribute the wider middle band to any particular kind of practice.

OEWS reports Utah's hourly median for veterinarians at $59.61, $2.94 below the national hourly median of $62.55 — a 5% gap, the same direction and the same rounded size as the annual median comparison.

An hourly-rate posting in Utah should be measured against that $59.61 figure rather than a national one, since a job priced by the hour will not automatically track where Utah sits in the annual distribution above or below the median.

The hourly figure is published at the median only — OEWS does not break the 10th, 25th, 75th or 90th percentiles into hourly terms in this dataset, so an hourly comparison stops at the median.

BLS estimates that 640 veterinarians were employed in Utah, ranking the state 35th among the 49 jurisdictions that publish a median — a slightly lower rank than the state's 34th-place rank by median.

The employment figure is a headcount of people working in the occupation during the survey period, not a count of open positions, and it says nothing about how many roles any one employer is trying to fill.

Read the percentiles on this page as describing a comparatively small group of veterinarians, and read the employment number only as the size of the profession in the state.

Practising veterinary medicine in Utah takes a license from the Utah Division of Professional Licensing (DOPL).

The route runs through the national NAVLE — Utah publishes no jurisprudence exam and no state-specific passing score — plus an AVMA-accredited veterinary degree or an ECFVG certificate and 1,000 hours of qualifying practice.

Utah has no veterinarian-specific endorsement statute; DOPL says a veterinarian licensed elsewhere 'may qualify for licensure by endorsement' through the state's generic cross-profession statute, but the conditions are not detailed in the sources read.

Continuing education runs 24 hours on a two-year cycle beginning every even-numbered September, and the state's temporary license is a bridge for exam-pending candidates rather than a relief permit for an already-licensed veterinarian.

Those steps apply the same way regardless of where a job sits in the wage distribution; the full Utah license requirements page covers each one with its citation.