Veterinary Receptionist Salary in Louisiana

Every published Louisiana percentile is below its national counterpart.

The gap is proportionally widest at the low end: the 10th percentile, $21,420, is $7,340, or 26%, below the national figure.

It is 18% at the 25th percentile ($27,930 against $33,960), 14% at the median, and 18% again at the 75th ($37,090 against $45,130), and narrowest in percentage terms at the 90th, where the Louisiana figure of $44,410 is $5,540, or 11%, below the national $49,950.

The percentage gap narrows from the floor through the middle, widens again at the 75th percentile, and is smallest at the top — so someone benchmarking a Louisiana offer against national figures for this all-industry occupation overstates the floor more than the ceiling in percentage terms.

Half of the Louisiana workers counted earned between $27,930 and $37,090, a band $9,160 wide — narrower than the national band of $11,170.

The full 10th-to-90th span runs the other way, $22,990 against $21,190 nationally, because the tails stretch: the 10th-to-25th step is $6,510 in Louisiana against $5,200, the 25th-to-median step is $4,820 against $4,050, and the 75th-to-90th step is $7,320 against $4,820, each wider than its national counterpart.

The one tighter segment is median to 75th, $4,340 against $7,120.

The median sits $4,820 above the 25th percentile and $4,340 below the 75th — nearly centered in its band, where the national median sits in the lower half of 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 Louisiana hourly median is $15.75, against $18.27 nationally — $2.52 less, the same 14% 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 12,820 receptionists and information clerks were employed in Louisiana, 22nd 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 Louisiana have a median of $35,530 — $2,780, or 8%, more than the all-industry receptionist median on this page.

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.