Veterinary Technician Salary in Georgia

Georgia's veterinary technicians earned less than the national distribution at every percentile measured, though not by an even margin.

At the 10th percentile, Georgia's $35,060 is 2% below the national $35,710, and at the 25th, $37,200 is 4% below the national $38,910.

The median, $43,060, sits $4,320 below the national $47,380, a 9% gap.

That gap is widest at the 75th percentile, where Georgia's $47,450 trails the national $57,650 by $10,200, or 18%.

At the 90th percentile the gap narrows back to 7%, with Georgia's $58,590 against the national $63,180.

A technician using national upper-percentile figures to benchmark a Georgia offer would most overstate the middle-to-upper part of the range, not the very top.

Half of the veterinary technicians Georgia counted earned between $37,200 and $47,450 — a band $10,250 wide.

Nationally, the same middle half spans $38,910 to $57,650, a $18,740 band, about 1.8 times as wide.

From the 10th percentile ($35,060) to the 90th ($58,590), Georgia's full range is $23,530, against $27,470 nationally.

Within the Georgia band, the median sits closer to the 75th percentile than to the 25th: $4,390 below the one and $5,860 above the other.

OEWS does not explain why a distribution takes this shape, so this page does not assign it a cause.

The data set behind this page carries Georgia's hourly wage only at the median: $20.70, against $22.78 nationally, a 9% gap that matches the gap in the annual median.

That makes it the one figure to hold an hourly posting against, since the source publishes no hourly figure at any other percentile.

Before comparing a posted hourly rate with it, confirm how many hours a week the role is scheduled for — the annual percentiles above assume full-time, year-round work.

Georgia licenses veterinary technicians as LVTs through the Georgia State Board of Veterinary Medicine.

The route requires being at least 18, of good moral character, and a graduate of an AVMA-approved veterinary technician program, plus a passing score on both the VTNE and the state's own Georgia Veterinary Technician Law Exam.

The license renews every two years on a December 31, even-numbered-year cycle, with 11 hours of Board-approved continuing education required per biennium.

Whether the license itself is required to perform technician work is not settled in the sources this page draws from — the rule chapter governing the license covers how it is earned and kept, not who must hold it.

The Georgia requirements page on this site covers the full route, including a six-month temporary license limited to government or nonprofit shelter medicine, nonprofit sterilization clinics, and nonprofit mobile sterilization programs registered with the state.