Veterinarian Salary in Wyoming

Wyoming's veterinarian wages sit below the national figures at every percentile the data publishes, but the gap is not even.

At the median, Wyoming's $97,240 is 25% below the national $130,100, and the hourly reading tells the same story: $46.75 against $62.55, also 25% lower.

The gap is smaller in the middle of the range — the 25th percentile is 21% below the national 25th and the 75th percentile is 20% below the national 75th.

The 10th percentile sits at about that same 25% gap as the median, and only at the very top does the gap widen further: the 90th percentile is 31% below the national 90th.

A veterinarian in Wyoming benchmarking an offer against the national 90th percentile of $215,700 is comparing it to a level the Wyoming data comes nowhere near; the Wyoming 90th percentile is $149,070.

The middle half of Wyoming veterinarians — those between the 25th and 75th percentiles — earned between $80,230 and $132,890, a band $52,660 wide.

Nationally the same band is $64,660 wide, so the Wyoming middle half is narrower.

Within that band, the median of $97,240 sits closer to the floor: it is $17,010 above the 25th percentile but $35,650 below the 75th.

The full range is narrower too — from the 10th percentile of $55,420 to the 90th of $149,070, a span of $93,650, against $141,780 nationally.

OEWS publishes the shape of the distribution, not what drives it, so this page does not assign the narrower Wyoming band to any particular kind of practice or setting.

BLS estimates that just 140 veterinarians were employed in Wyoming, the smallest employment estimate of the 49 jurisdictions that publish a veterinarian median — its computed rank is 49th of 49.

Every percentile above rests on that small count, so a distribution built from 140 people is more sensitive to a handful of individual wages than one built from a workforce in the thousands.

The employment 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 employer fills a role.

Read it as a caution about how much weight to put on the shape of this page's numbers, not as a signal of anything beyond the count itself.

Practising veterinary medicine in Wyoming takes a license from the Wyoming Board of Veterinary Medicine.

The state's own statute never names the NAVLE — it directs the Board to adopt and use the examination the national board of veterinary examiners prepares, which functions as the NAVLE requirement — and the Board's Forms page lists a separate State Veterinary Jurisprudence Examination, though the read sources leave its format an open question.

An out-of-state veterinarian licensed three or more years in a substantially equivalent state, with that state board's recommendation, or one who passed the national exam within the preceding three years, can apply under §33-30-208 without retaking the exam.

Licenses expire every December 31 under §33-30-211, and the statute mandates 3 hours of continuing education on controlled-substance prescribing every 2 years, though board rule — not the statute itself — sets the total annual CE-hour requirement.

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