Veterinary Receptionist Salary in California

Every published California percentile sits above its national counterpart.

The gap is proportionally widest at the low end: the 10th percentile, $36,410, is $7,650, or 27%, above the national $28,760.

It runs 15% at the 25th percentile ($39,050 against $33,960) and 16% at the median, and narrows to 8% at the 75th, $48,690 against $45,130.

The 90th percentile, $58,800, is $8,850, or 18%, above the national $49,950 — the largest dollar gap in the distribution.

Someone benchmarking a California offer against national figures for this all-industry occupation would understate it most in dollars at the top, and in percentage terms at the floor.

Half of the California workers counted earned between $39,050 and $48,690, a band $9,640 wide — tighter than the national band of $11,170.

The full 10th-to-90th span runs the other way, $22,390 against a national $21,190, because California compresses the bottom and stretches the top: the 25th percentile sits $2,640 above the 10th in California, against $5,200 nationally, while the 90th sits $10,110 above the 75th, against $4,820.

The median sits $5,050 above the 25th percentile and $4,590 below the 75th, slightly closer to the top of the band.

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

The California hourly median is $21.20, against $18.27 nationally — $2.93 more, the same 16% 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 82,470 receptionists and information clerks were employed in California, 1st among the 51 jurisdictions.

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 California have a median of $60,630 — $16,530, or 37%, more than the all-industry receptionist median on this page, 1.4 times the figure.

The comparison sets a veterinary occupation against an all-industry one, so it is context for someone weighing a move into technician work, not a measure of what a veterinary front desk pays — no federal series isolates that job.