Veterinary Technician Salary in Alaska

BLS publishes the full Alaska distribution: a median of $46,480 ($22.35 an hour), a 10th percentile of $37,010, a 25th of $37,630, a 75th of $60,510 and a 90th of $75,820.

The national figures in the same release are $47,380 at the median ($22.78 an hour), $35,710 at the 10th percentile, $38,910 at the 25th, $57,650 at the 75th and $63,180 at the 90th.

Because BLS attaches a wide error margin to the Alaska wage estimate, a gap between the two sets may reflect sampling as much as pay, so this page shows them side by side and does not measure the difference.

Half of the Alaska technicians counted earned between $37,630 and $60,510, a band $22,880 wide.

From the 10th percentile ($37,010) to the 90th ($75,820), the Alaska figures span $38,810.

The median sits closer to the 25th percentile than to the 75th: $8,850 above the one and $14,030 below the other.

With a wide error margin on the estimate, read these as the rough shape of the distribution BLS measured, not precise cut-offs; OEWS does not explain why a distribution has this shape, so this page does not assign it a cause.

BLS estimates 380 veterinary technologists and technicians employed in Alaska, 45th among the 51 jurisdictions that publish a median — one of the smaller workforces in the series.

Employment is a headcount of people counted in jobs during the survey period, not a count of open positions, so it says nothing about how easy or hard a role is to fill.

A small employment count can also make percentile estimates more sensitive to a handful of individual wages, which is worth keeping in mind when reading the spread above.

Alaska credentials technicians through the Alaska Board of Veterinary Examiners, part of the state's Division of Corporations, Business and Professional Licensing, which issues the Veterinary Technician License that Alaska job postings call the LVT.

Applicants qualify by graduating from an AVMA- or CVMA-accredited program, or by completing at least two years of on-the-job training under a licensed veterinarian within the three years before applying, with at least one of those years worked in Alaska.

Either route ends at the VTNE, and the license runs on a fixed two-year cycle expiring December 31 of even-numbered years.

The Alaska requirements page on this site covers the full application, including the $200 in fees; the sources it draws on do not state whether the credential is mandatory to work in the state, and the data behind this page carries no split between credentialed and uncredentialed technicians, so it cannot show a pay difference between them.