Veterinary Receptionist Salary in Mississippi

Every published Mississippi percentile sits below its national counterpart, and the state's median ranks 51st of the 51 jurisdictions that publish one.

The gap is widest, in percentage terms, at the low end: the 10th percentile, $22,310, is 22% below the national $28,760, and the 25th percentile, $26,780, is 21% below $33,960.

The median sits 18% below ($31,160 against $38,010), the 75th percentile 19% below ($36,420 against $45,130), and the gap is narrowest at the 90th percentile, where $42,990 is 14% below the national $49,950.

In dollar terms the largest single gap is at the 75th percentile, $8,710.

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

Half of the Mississippi workers counted earned between $26,780 and $36,420, a band $9,640 wide, against a national band of $11,170.

The full 10th-to-90th span runs from $22,310 to $42,990, or $20,680, a little under the national span of $21,190.

The median sits $4,380 above the 25th percentile and $5,260 below the 75th, slightly below the middle of the band.

The four segments pull in opposite directions: the stretch from the 10th percentile to the 25th, $4,470, and the stretch from the median to the 75th, $5,260, run under their national counterparts of $5,200 and $7,120, while the stretch from the 25th percentile to the median, $4,380, and the top segment from the 75th percentile to the 90th, $6,570, run over the national $4,050 and $4,820.

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

The Mississippi hourly median is $14.98, against $18.27 nationally — $3.29 less, 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 6,920 receptionists and information clerks were employed in Mississippi, 34th 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 Mississippi have a median of $36,380 — $5,220, or 17%, 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.