Veterinary Receptionist Salary in Iowa

Every published Iowa percentile is below its national counterpart, and the gap is narrowest at the median, where $37,330 is 2% below the national $38,010.

It is widest at the floor: the Iowa 10th percentile of $26,740 is $2,020, or 7%, below the national $28,760.

The 25th percentile, $32,080, is $1,880, or 6%, lower.

It is 6% at the 75th percentile ($42,560 against $45,130) and 5% at the 90th, where the Iowa figure of $47,610 sits $2,340 below the national $49,950.

Someone comparing a posting with national figures for this all-industry occupation would overstate the Iowa floor more than its middle.

Iowa's percentiles climb in nearly equal steps: $5,340 from the 10th percentile to the 25th, $5,250 from the 25th to the median, $5,230 from the median to the 75th, and $5,050 from the 75th to the 90th.

Only the step above the median narrows against the nation — $5,230 against a national $7,120 — while the other three each run wider than their national counterparts.

The full 10th-to-90th span is $20,870, just under the national $21,190, and the 25th-to-75th band is $10,480 against the national $11,170.

That evenness puts the median almost exactly halfway up the Iowa band, where the national median sits low in its own.

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

The Iowa hourly median is $17.95, against $18.27 nationally — $0.32 less, the same 2% 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 4,660 receptionists and information clerks were employed in Iowa, 41st 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 Iowa have a median of $45,560 — $8,230, or 22%, more than the all-industry receptionist median on this page, about 1.2 times the receptionist figure.

That 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 — two occupations counting different workers, not a raise anyone should expect.