Veterinary Receptionist Salary in North Dakota

Every published North Dakota percentile sits above its national counterpart.

The advantage is narrowest in percentage terms at the 75th percentile, where $46,170 is $1,040, or 2%, above the national figure, and widest at the 90th, where $52,220 is $2,270, or 5%, above — the largest gap in the state's distribution in both dollar and percentage terms.

It runs 3% at the 10th percentile ($29,570 against $28,760), 4% at the 25th ($35,250 against $33,960) and 4% at the median.

Someone benchmarking an offer against the national figures for this all-industry occupation would understate the North Dakota ceiling more than its middle.

Half of the North Dakota workers counted earned between $35,250 and $46,170, a band $10,920 wide — slightly narrower than the national band of $11,170.

The full 10th-to-90th span runs the other way: $22,650 against the national $21,190, because the North Dakota ceiling sits further above the national ceiling than the North Dakota floor sits above the national floor.

The median itself sits $4,280 above the 25th percentile and $6,640 below the 75th, so the larger share of the middle band lies above it.

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

The North Dakota hourly median is $19.00, against $18.27 nationally — $0.73 more, the same 4% 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 1,930 receptionists and information clerks were employed in North Dakota, 47th among the 51 jurisdictions that publish a median.

That is a count across every industry — offices, hotels, 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 North Dakota have a median of $48,790 — $9,260, or 23%, more than the all-industry receptionist median on this page, 1.2 times the 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 sets two occupations counting different workers side by side, not a raise anyone should expect.