Veterinary Receptionist Salary in Washington, DC

Every published DC percentile sits above its national counterpart.

The lead is smallest at the 25th percentile — $39,850 against $33,960, or 17% — because the bottom quarter of the DC distribution is compressed: $2,800 separates the 10th percentile from the 25th, against $5,200 nationally.

Everywhere else the lead runs 28% to 29%: the median of $49,060 is $11,050 above the national $38,010, and the 90th percentile of $64,270 is $14,320 above the national $49,950.

The national median of $38,010 still sits above the DC 10th percentile of $37,050, so a posting at the DC floor can still trail a national-median figure for the same occupation.

Half of the DC workers counted earned between $39,850 and $57,760, a band $17,910 wide against the national $11,170 — wider in dollars and in proportion to the median.

The full 10th-to-90th span is $27,220, against $21,190 nationally.

Step by step, the DC figures spread out more at every stage but the bottom: $2,800 between the 10th and 25th percentiles against $5,200 nationally, then $9,210 from the 25th to the median against $4,050, $8,700 from the median to the 75th against $7,120, and $6,510 from the 75th to the 90th against $4,820.

The DC median sits $9,210 above the 25th percentile and $8,700 below the 75th, near the center of its band.

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

The DC hourly median is $23.59, against $18.27 nationally — $5.32 more, the same 29% 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 2,000 receptionists and information clerks were employed in Washington, DC, 46th of the 51 jurisdictions that publish an employment figure.

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 Washington, DC have a median of $61,270 — $12,210, or 25%, more than the all-industry receptionist median on this page.

On hourly medians the gap is $29.46 against $23.59, $5.87 more.

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.