Veterinary Receptionist Salary in Pennsylvania

Every published Pennsylvania percentile sits below its national counterpart.

The gap is widest at the low end: the 10th percentile, $24,820, is $3,940, or 14%, below the national $28,760 — the largest gap in the distribution in both dollar and percentage terms.

The 25th percentile, $30,700, is $3,260, or 10%, below.

It narrows to 5% at the 75th percentile ($42,930 against $45,130) and 3% at the median ($36,810 against $38,010) and at the 90th ($48,310 against $49,950).

In dollar terms the median gap is the smallest, $1,200.

Benchmarking a Pennsylvania posting against national figures for this occupation therefore overstates the low end more than the middle.

Half of the Pennsylvania workers counted earned between $30,700 and $42,930, a band $12,230 wide, against $11,170 nationally.

The full 10th-to-90th span is wider too: $23,490, against $21,190 nationally.

The extra band width sits in its lower half — the median is $6,110 above the 25th percentile, against $4,050 nationally — while it is $6,120 below the 75th, against $7,120 nationally, so the national median sits low in its band and the Pennsylvania median nearly centered in its own.

OEWS does not publish causes, and the row counts receptionists and information clerks across all industries, so the shape says nothing about veterinary employers.

The Pennsylvania hourly median is $17.70, against $18.27 nationally — $0.57 less, the same 3% gap as the annual median.

The data set carries hourly pay at the median only, so an hourly posting has no state percentiles to be held against.

Before comparing a posted rate with the annual figures, ask how many hours a week the role is scheduled.

BLS estimates 37,830 receptionists and information clerks were employed in Pennsylvania, 7th 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 Pennsylvania have a median of $46,430 — $9,620, or 26%, 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.