Veterinary Receptionist Salary in North Carolina

Every published North Carolina percentile is below its national counterpart.

The floor falls furthest: the 10th percentile, $23,270, is $5,490, or 19%, below the national figure, and the 25th, $29,120, is 14% below.

The middle runs 7% behind ($35,440 against $38,010).

At the 75th percentile the gap widens again — $40,050 against $45,130, or 11% — before narrowing toward the top, where the North Carolina 90th percentile of $46,210 is $3,740, or 7%, below the national $49,950.

Someone benchmarking an offer against national figures for this all-industry occupation would overstate the low end of the North Carolina range most, and the middle and top end far less.

Half of the North Carolina workers counted earned between $29,120 and $40,050, a band $10,930 wide — slightly narrower than the national band of $11,170.

The full 10th-to-90th span runs the other way: $22,940 against $21,190 nationally, because the state's floor sits $5,490 below the national floor while its ceiling is only $3,740 below.

The median sits $6,320 above the 25th percentile and $4,610 below the 75th, so it leans toward the top of the middle band.

OEWS publishes no causes for any of this, and the row counts every industry, so the shape cannot be read as anything about veterinary employers.

The North Carolina hourly median is $17.04, against $18.27 nationally — $1.23 less, the same 7% 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 20,080 receptionists and information clerks were employed in North Carolina, 15th among the 51 jurisdictions that publish a median.

That is a count across every industry — hotels, offices, medical offices 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 North Carolina have a median of $47,620 — $12,180, or 34%, more than the all-industry receptionist median on this page.

The technician median is 1.3 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 — and it is not a raise anyone should expect, because the two rows count different workers.