Veterinary Receptionist Salary in Oklahoma

Every published Oklahoma percentile is below its national counterpart.

The 10th percentile, $24,700, is 14% below the national $28,760; the 25th, $28,180, is 17% below; and the median of $34,560 is $3,450, or 9%, below the national median of $38,010 — the narrowest gap anywhere in the distribution.

The 75th percentile is the furthest behind in dollars: $37,500 against $45,130, a gap of $7,630, though in percentage terms it is level with the 25th at 17%.

The 90th percentile, $44,760, sits $5,190, or 10%, below the national $49,950, making the gaps proportionally smallest at the median and the 90th.

Half of the Oklahoma workers counted earned between $28,180 and $37,500, a band $9,320 wide against the national band of $11,170.

The full 10th-to-90th span, $20,060, is also narrower than the national $21,190, but the narrowing is not even: the step from the 25th percentile to the median runs wider in Oklahoma, $6,380 against $4,050, and so does the top step from the 75th to the 90th, $7,260 against $4,820, while the two steps on either side of the median run narrower — $3,480 against $5,200 below it, and $2,940 against $7,120 above it.

The median therefore sits $6,380 above the 25th percentile and just $2,940 below the 75th, high inside its own band where the national median sits in its lower half.

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

The Oklahoma hourly median is $16.61, against $18.27 nationally — $1.66 less, the same 9% 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 9,380 receptionists and information clerks were employed in Oklahoma, 31st 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 Oklahoma have a median of $39,100 — $4,540, or 13%, 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.