Veterinary Assistant Salary in Wyoming
Veterinary assistants and laboratory animal caretakers in Wyoming — BLS publishes the two as one combined occupation, SOC 31-9096 — earned a median annual wage of $37,880 in the May 2025 estimates, 1% below the national median of $38,150.
That ranks 19th of the 51 jurisdictions that publish a median.
The distinctive part is the ceiling: the Wyoming 75th percentile sits 16% below the national one, and the 10th-to-90th span is less than half the national span.
What these figures cover
10th percentile
$30,610
25th percentile
$31,050
75th percentile
$38,570
90th percentile
$39,080
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 state estimates — Wyoming, SOC 31-9096 (Veterinary Assistants and Laboratory Animal Caretakers). Retrieved 2026-09-16 from the BLS Public Data API.
How to read these figures
Wyoming vs. the national figures
The Wyoming median is below the national median by 1%. Among the 51 jurisdictions (states plus DC) where BLS publishes a Veterinary Assistants and Laboratory Animal Caretakers (SOC 31-9096) median for May 2025, it ranks 19th, and 49th by estimated employment.
Differences are whole percentages, rounded half away from zero, computed from the figures shown.
Even with the national median, far behind at the top
Wyoming tracks the national figures closely at the middle but falls away above it.
The 10th percentile, $30,610, is 2% above the national $30,120.
From there the gap opens: the 25th percentile, $31,050, is 13% below the national $35,660, and the median itself is 1% below.
The 75th percentile, $38,570, is 16% below the national $45,710 — a gap of $7,140 — and the 90th percentile, $39,080, is 20% below the national $49,150, a gap of $10,070.
Someone benchmarking a Wyoming offer against national figures would overstate how much room sits above the middle of this distribution.
A band less than half the national width
Half of the Wyoming workers counted earned between $31,050 and $38,570, a band $7,520 wide, against a national band of $10,050.
From the 10th to the 90th percentile the state spans $8,470, against $19,030 nationally.
The compression is almost entirely above the middle: the median sits $6,830 above the 25th percentile but only 2% below the 75th, and the 90th percentile is just $1,200 above the median, against $11,000 nationally.
OEWS does not publish why a distribution has this shape, so this page does not assign it a cause.
Holding an hourly posting against these figures
The hourly median in Wyoming is $18.21, against $18.34 nationally — $0.13 less, the same 1% gap as the annual median.
The data set carries hourly pay at the median only, so it is the one figure to hold an hourly posting against.
For the rest of the range, ask how many hours a week the role is scheduled before comparing a posted rate with the annual percentiles.
A very small employment estimate, for a combined occupation
BLS estimates 150 people were employed in this combined occupation in Wyoming, 49th among the jurisdictions that publish an employment figure.
That count includes laboratory animal caretakers as well as veterinary assistants, in a split BLS does not publish.
It is a headcount of people in jobs during the survey period — not a count of openings, and not a measure of how quickly positions are filled.
With an estimate this small, the figures at the edges of the distribution rest on comparatively few observations, and BLS publishes no precision measure alongside them.
Against the Wyoming vet tech median
In the same release, Wyoming's veterinary technologists and technicians have a median of $38,650, which is 2% above the median for this occupation — 1.0 times it, effectively parity at the middle.
Read that as the distance between two BLS occupations in one state, not as a raise any one person should expect: the two rows count different groups of workers, and the occupation counted here also includes laboratory animal caretakers.
Same release, same state: veterinary technologists and technicians (SOC 29-2056) in Wyoming have a median of $38,650 ($18.58/hr) — $770 above the veterinary assistants and laboratory animal caretakers median shown on this page. Vet tech salary in Wyoming →
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the median veterinary assistant salary in Wyoming?
BLS does not publish veterinary assistants on their own.
The closest figure is SOC 31-9096, Veterinary Assistants and Laboratory Animal Caretakers, whose Wyoming median annual wage was $37,880 in May 2025, or $18.21 an hour.
Half of those counted earned more and half earned less.
The national median for the same occupation is $38,150, so Wyoming sits 1% below it.
How much do the top-paid workers in this occupation earn in Wyoming?
The Wyoming 90th percentile is $39,080, meaning one in ten workers counted in SOC 31-9096 earned more than that.
Nationally the 90th percentile is $49,150, so the Wyoming figure is $10,070, or 20%, lower.
Because the occupation combines veterinary assistants with laboratory animal caretakers, the figure cannot say which of the two groups sits at the top.
How does this compare with vet tech pay in Wyoming?
In the same BLS release, veterinary technologists and technicians in Wyoming have a median of $38,650, against $37,880 for veterinary assistants and laboratory animal caretakers.
The technician median is 2% higher — 1.0 times this occupation's median, effectively parity.
The two figures describe different occupations counting different groups of workers, so the gap is context for a career decision, not a promised raise.
What does the low end of pay look like in Wyoming?
The Wyoming 10th percentile is $30,610, 2% above the national 10th percentile of $30,120.
The 25th percentile tells a different story: $31,050, 13% below the national $35,660.
So the very floor holds up better than the quarter-mark does, and both sit well below the state median of $37,880, which is itself 1% below the national median.
How many veterinary assistants work in Wyoming?
BLS estimates 150 people employed in SOC 31-9096 in Wyoming, 49th among the jurisdictions that publish an employment figure.
That number combines veterinary assistants with laboratory animal caretakers, so it overstates clinic assistants alone by an amount BLS does not publish.
It is a headcount of people in jobs, not a count of vacancies.
More Wyoming Veterinary Assistant Resources
Sources
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 state estimates — Wyoming, SOC 31-9096 Veterinary Assistants and Laboratory Animal Caretakers, and SOC 29-2056 for the technician comparison (BLS Public Data API) (retrieved 2026-09-16)
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS May 2025 national estimates — SOC 31-9096 (via O*NET OnLine) (retrieved 2026-08-15)
Wage figures: BLS OEWS May 2025 state and national estimates, SOC 31-9096, retrieved 2026-09-16. Page last updated 2026-09-24.