Veterinary Receptionist Salary in Kentucky

Every published Kentucky percentile is below its national counterpart.

In percentage terms, the gap is widest at the floor: the 10th percentile, $23,720, is 18% below the national $28,760, and the 25th, $28,420, is 16% below the national $33,960.

It narrows through the middle — 13% at the median, $32,940 against $38,010 — widens slightly at the 75th percentile ($38,440 against $45,130, 15% below), and narrows to its smallest at the 90th, where the Kentucky figure of $44,270 is 11% below the national $49,950.

In dollars the ordering runs the other way: the largest dollar gap is at the 75th percentile, $6,690, and the smallest is the floor's $5,040.

Someone benchmarking a posting against the national figures for this all-industry occupation would overstate the Kentucky floor proportionally more than its ceiling.

Half of the Kentucky workers counted earned between $28,420 and $38,440, a band $10,020 wide — narrower than the national band of $11,170.

The full 10th-to-90th span is $20,550, also narrower than the national $21,190.

The median sits $4,520 above the 25th percentile and $5,500 below the 75th, so it is not pinned to either edge 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 Kentucky hourly median is $15.84, against $18.27 nationally — $2.43 less, the same 13% 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 9,290 receptionists and information clerks were employed in Kentucky, 32nd among the 51 jurisdictions by employment.

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 Kentucky have a median of $39,590 — $6,650, or 20%, more than the all-industry receptionist median on this page.

The technician median is 1.2 times the receptionist figure.

That comparison sets a veterinary occupation against an all-industry one, counting different workers, so it is context for someone weighing a move into technician work — not a measure of what a veterinary front desk pays, and not a raise anyone should expect.