Veterinary Receptionist Salary in Montana

Every published Montana percentile is below its national counterpart, and no gap is large.

The 10th percentile, $27,240, is 5% below the national $28,760, and the 25th, $33,080, is 3% below the national figure.

The median gap is the narrowest, at 2%.

The 75th percentile, $42,840, and the 90th, $47,420, are each 5% below their national figures of $45,130 and $49,950.

Someone benchmarking a posting against the national figures for this all-industry occupation would find Montana closest at the middle and modestly behind at both edges.

Half of the Montana workers counted earned between $33,080 and $42,840, a band $9,760 wide against the national band of $11,170.

The full 10th-to-90th span, $20,180, is also narrower than the national $21,190, and the narrowing above the median more than accounts for it: the step from the median to the 75th percentile is $5,480 in Montana against $7,120 nationally, while below the median the Montana segments run $5,840 and $4,280 against the national $5,200 and $4,050.

The median sits $4,280 above the 25th percentile and $5,480 below the 75th.

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

The Montana hourly median is $17.96, against $18.27 nationally — $0.31 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 1,280 receptionists and information clerks were employed in Montana, 50th of 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 Montana have a median of $41,170 — $3,810, or 10%, 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, and the two figures count two different groups of workers, not a raise anyone should expect.