Veterinarian Salary in Vermont

At the median, Vermont and the nation sit close together: $131,820 against $130,100, a difference of $1,720, or 1%.

Move away from the middle and the comparison changes shape.

The Vermont 10th percentile is $91,290, 23% above the national 10th percentile of $73,920, and the 25th percentile is $110,410, 9% above the national 25th percentile of $101,460.

At the other end, the 75th percentile is $170,570, 3% above the national 75th percentile of $166,120, but the 90th percentile is $213,060, 1% below the national 90th percentile of $215,700.

A veterinarian holding a Vermont offer against the national 90th percentile is benchmarking against a figure the Vermont distribution does not quite reach.

The middle half of Vermont veterinarians — between the 25th and 75th percentiles — earned between $110,410 and $170,570, a band $60,160 wide.

The same band nationally is $64,660 wide.

From the 10th percentile ($91,290) to the 90th ($213,060), Vermont spans $121,770, against $141,780 nationally, putting the Vermont 90th percentile at 2.3 times its own 10th percentile, versus 2.9 times nationally.

The narrowing runs mostly through the floor: the 10th and 25th percentiles sit well above their national counterparts while the 90th percentile sits close to, and just under, the national one.

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

BLS estimates that 280 veterinarians were employed in Vermont, tied for 45th among the 49 jurisdictions that publish a median.

A small headcount means the percentiles above rest on fewer data points, so a single unusual salary can move a percentile further than it would where the sample is larger.

The employment figure is a count of people working in the occupation during the survey period.

It is not a count of open positions, and it says nothing about how many jobs are available or how quickly an employer fills one, so read it as the size of the profession in the state and nothing more.

Practising veterinary medicine in Vermont takes a license from the Vermont Board of Veterinary Medicine, under the Office of Professional Regulation.

An applicant for licensure by examination must have passed the NAVLE within two years preceding application, but Vermont requires no separate exam on its own laws and rules.

A veterinarian licensed or certified in good standing in another jurisdiction may instead be eligible for licensure without examination under 26 V.S.A. § 2424, though eligibility is not automatic and the statute's own terms — including whatever they say about the NAVLE's recency window — apply.

Licenses renew every two years, against 24 hours of continuing education per period.

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