Veterinary Receptionist Salary in Wisconsin

Every published Wisconsin percentile sits above its national counterpart, though at the 90th the gap has all but closed: $50,030 against the national $49,950.

The lead is widest in the middle.

The median, $41,150, is $3,140, or 8%, above the national median of $38,010, and the 25th percentile, $36,000, is $2,040, or 6%, above.

It narrows to 3% at the 10th percentile ($29,530) and at the 75th ($46,570 against $45,130).

Someone benchmarking an all-industry offer against national figures would find the national numbers closest at the ceiling and most understated at the middle.

Half of the Wisconsin workers counted earned between $36,000 and $46,570, a band $10,570 wide against a national band of $11,170; the full 10th-to-90th span is $20,500 against $21,190 nationally.

The compression is not even.

Relative to the national distribution, the lower half stretches wider — $6,470 separates the 10th and 25th percentiles and $5,150 the 25th from the median, against national segments of $5,200 and $4,050 — while the upper half compresses: $5,420 from the median to the 75th percentile and $3,460 from the 75th to the 90th, against $7,120 and $4,820 nationally.

The median sits $5,150 above the 25th percentile and $5,420 below the 75th, a touch below the band's midpoint.

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

The Wisconsin hourly median is $19.78, against $18.27 nationally — $1.51 more, the same 8% 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 25,580 receptionists and information clerks were employed in Wisconsin, 11th among the 51 jurisdictions that publish a median.

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 Wisconsin have a median of $47,020 — $5,870, or 14%, above the $41,150 all-industry receptionist median on this page.

The technician median is 1.1 times the receptionist 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.