Veterinary Receptionist Salary in New Jersey

Every published New Jersey percentile is above its national counterpart.

The edge is widest at the low end: the 10th percentile, $33,420, is $4,660, or 16%, above the national figure, and the 25th, $36,600, is $2,640, or 8%, above.

It is 10% at the median ($41,650 against $38,010), narrowing to 4% at the 75th percentile ($46,980 against $45,130) and back to 9% at the 90th ($54,290 against $49,950).

The gaps do not slide smoothly: the edge dips at the 25th percentile, partly recovers at the median and is narrowest at the 75th.

And even in a state this high, the national median of $38,010 still sits above the New Jersey 10th percentile of $33,420 — the local floor does not clear it.

Half of the New Jersey workers counted earned between $36,600 and $46,980, a band $10,380 wide — tighter than the national band of $11,170.

The full 10th-to-90th span, $20,870 against a national $21,190, is also slightly tighter, but the two distributions are not shaped alike.

Quarter by quarter against the national figures: the bottom quarter, 10th to 25th percentile, covers $3,180 against $5,200; the stretch from the 25th percentile to the median runs wider, $5,050 against $4,050; from the median to the 75th the state is tighter again, $5,330 against $7,120; and the top quarter runs widest, $7,310 against $4,820.

The median sits $5,050 above the 25th percentile and $5,330 below the 75th — almost exactly halfway between them.

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

The New Jersey hourly median is $20.02, against $18.27 nationally — $1.75 more, the same 10% 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 42,060 receptionists and information clerks were employed in New Jersey, 5th 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 New Jersey have a median of $49,050 — $7,400, or 18%, 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.