Veterinary Receptionist Salary in Virginia

Every Virginia percentile except the 10th sits below its national counterpart.

The 10th percentile, $28,800, sits level with the national figure of $28,760, a 0% gap.

From there the state falls away fastest in percentage terms at the 25th percentile, $31,660 against $33,960, a 7% shortfall — the widest percentage gap in the Virginia distribution.

It narrows to 2% at the median ($37,060 against $38,010) and 3% at the 75th percentile ($43,870 against $45,130), then widens again to 5% at the 90th ($47,220 against $49,950).

In dollars the ordering differs: the largest shortfall is at the 90th percentile, $2,730 below the national figure, ahead of the $2,300 shortfall at the 25th.

Someone benchmarking an offer against national figures for this all-industry occupation would find the floor matching and everything above it behind.

Half of the Virginia workers counted earned between $31,660 and $43,870, a band $12,210 wide — about 9% wider than the national band of $11,170.

The full 10th-to-90th span runs the other way, $18,420 against $21,190, because the Virginia floor sits level with the national floor while its ceiling sits below it.

The median sits $5,400 above the 25th percentile and $6,810 below the 75th.

The most compressed segment is the bottom one: $2,860 separates the 10th percentile from the 25th, against $5,200 nationally.

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

The Virginia hourly median is $17.82, against $18.27 nationally — $0.45 less, the same 2% 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 23,360 receptionists and information clerks were employed in Virginia, 13th 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 Virginia have a median of $52,090 — $15,030, or 41%, more than the all-industry receptionist median on this page, 1.4 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.