Veterinary Receptionist Salary in Alaska

Every published Alaska percentile is above its national counterpart.

The 10th percentile, $32,810, is $4,050 above the national $28,760, and the 25th, $38,370, is $4,410 above $33,960 — gaps of 14% and 13%.

The lead peaks at the median: $44,720 against $38,010, a difference of $6,710 or 18%.

It narrows to its smallest at the 75th percentile, where $50,070 is $4,940, or 11%, above the national $45,130, before widening again at the 90th, where $57,360 is $7,410, or 15%, above $49,950.

Someone benchmarking an Alaska offer against national figures for this all-industry occupation would understate the middle of the state's distribution more than its upper-middle.

Half of the Alaska workers counted earned between $38,370 and $50,070, a band $11,700 wide — slightly wider than the national band of $11,170.

The full 10th-to-90th span is wider too, $24,550 against the national $21,190.

The median's position inside the band is the distinctive part: it sits $6,350 above the Alaska 25th percentile and $5,350 below the 75th, whereas the national median sits below the middle of its band, $4,050 above its 25th percentile and $7,120 below its 75th.

OEWS does not publish causes, and this row counts every industry, so the shape cannot be read as anything about veterinary employers.

The Alaska hourly median is $21.50, against $18.27 nationally — $3.23 more, the same 18% gap as the annual median.

The data set carries hourly pay at the median only, so it is the figure to hold an hourly posting against.

Before comparing a posted rate with the annual percentiles, ask how many hours a week the role is scheduled.

BLS estimates 1,530 receptionists and information clerks were employed in Alaska, 49th among the 51 jurisdictions that publish a median.

That is a count across every industry — hotels, offices, clinics and every other employer — so it says nothing about how many work in veterinary settings, and it is a headcount of people in jobs, not a count of openings.

In the same release, veterinary technologists and technicians in Alaska have a median of $46,480.

Because BLS attaches a wide error margin to the Alaska vet tech wage estimate, this page does not measure the step between the two medians.

Setting a veterinary occupation against an all-industry one would in any case be context for someone weighing a move into technician work, not a measure of what a veterinary front desk pays.