Veterinary Receptionist Salary in South Dakota

South Dakota's median, $38,280, is 1% above the national median of $38,010 — the only percentile where the state leads.

Every other percentile sits below its national counterpart.

The gap is widest in percentage terms at the 25th percentile, $31,930 against $33,960, a 6% shortfall, and narrowest at the 75th, $44,030 against $45,130, 2% below.

The 10th percentile is 3% below.

In dollars the ordering differs: the largest gap is at the 90th percentile, $47,860 against $49,950 — $2,090, or 4%.

Someone benchmarking a South Dakota offer against the national figures for this all-industry occupation would find the middle slightly ahead and the rest of the range behind.

Half of the South Dakota workers counted earned between $31,930 and $44,030, a band $12,100 wide — about 8% wider than the national band of $11,170.

The full 10th-to-90th span runs the other way: $19,940, narrower than the national $21,190.

The widening sits in one segment, below the median: $6,350 separates the median from the 25th percentile, against $4,050 nationally.

The other three segments are all tighter than their national counterparts — 10th to 25th, median to 75th ($5,750 against $7,120), and 75th to 90th.

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

The South Dakota hourly median is $18.40, against $18.27 nationally — $0.13 more, the same 1% 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 5,760 receptionists and information clerks were employed in South Dakota, 36th 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 South Dakota have a median of $45,300 — $7,020, or 18%, 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.