Veterinary Technician Salary in Alaska

At the median, Alaska sits about $1,000 below the nation: $46,480 against $47,380, or 2%.

The hourly median of $22.35 is also 2% below the national $22.78.

Below the median the pattern splits: the Alaska 10th percentile is 4% above the national figure, while the 25th percentile is 3% below it.

Above the median the state pulls further ahead — the 75th percentile is 5% higher than the national 75th, and the 90th percentile is 20% higher, the largest gap anywhere on this page.

A technician benchmarking a top-of-range offer against national top-decile figures would understate what the Alaska distribution shows.

Half of the Alaska technicians counted earned between $37,630 and $60,510 — a band $22,880 wide, compared with $18,740 nationally.

From the 10th percentile ($37,010) to the 90th ($75,820), Alaska spans $38,810, well above the national span of $27,470.

The median sits closer to the 25th percentile than to the 75th: $8,850 above the one and $14,030 below the other, a pattern the national distribution shows too but less sharply ($8,470 and $10,270).

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, even though Alaska's median rank, 25th of 51, sits near the middle.

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.