Veterinary Technician Salary in Idaho

At the median, Idaho sits $5,260 below the nation: $42,120 against $47,380, an 11% gap.

The hourly median, $20.25 against $22.78 nationally, is also 11% lower, matching the annual gap almost exactly.

The 10th percentile shows the same 11% gap as the median, but the 25th percentile is only 4% below the national one — the closest the two distributions come anywhere on this page.

From there the gap opens back up: the 75th percentile, $46,810, is 19% below the national $57,650, and the 90th percentile, $48,660, is 23% below the national $63,180.

A technician holding an Idaho offer against national upper-percentile figures should expect the ceiling here to sit well under those numbers.

Half of the Idaho technicians counted earned between $37,270 and $46,810 — a band $9,540 wide.

Nationally the same band runs from $38,910 to $57,650, a span of $18,740, far wider than Idaho's.

From the 10th percentile ($31,900) to the 90th ($48,660), Idaho spans $16,760, against $27,470 nationally.

The median sits almost exactly in the middle of the Idaho band: $4,690 below the 75th percentile and $4,850 above the 25th.

OEWS does not explain why a distribution takes this shape, so this page does not assign the compression at the top a cause.

The data set behind this page carries Idaho's hourly wage only at the median: $20.25, against $22.78 nationally, an 11% gap that matches the gap in the annual median.

That makes it the one figure to hold an hourly posting against directly; the rest of the range exists on this page only as annual percentiles.

Before comparing a posted hourly rate against them, ask how many hours a week the role is scheduled for, since the annual percentiles assume standard full-time hours across the year.

BLS estimates 790 veterinary technologists and technicians employed in Idaho, 37th among the 51 jurisdictions that publish a median for this occupation.

A workforce this size is a comparatively small base for a survey estimate, which is one reason a state's derived percentiles can move more from one release to the next than a larger jurisdiction's do.

The employment figure counts people working in the occupation during the survey period; it is not a count of open positions, so it does not say how quickly a role is likely to be filled.

Idaho certifies veterinary technicians through the Idaho State Board of Veterinary Medicine (Div. of Occupational & Professional Licenses).

Its rule requires anyone representing themselves as a licensed, registered, or certified veterinary technician to hold a valid, unexpired certificate to practice veterinary technology in Idaho — a sentence broad enough to cover an incoming LVT or RVT under the same requirement as the state's own CVT, which Idaho defines as a person who has fulfilled the certification requirements prescribed by board rule and has been certified by the Board.

Renewal asks for fifteen hours of completed continuing education, and the current rule text carries no VTNE or state-exam language for veterinary technicians.

Which technician tasks require the certificate, rather than just the title, is a separate scope-of-practice question the sources read for the Idaho requirements page do not settle.

The full Idaho requirements page on this site covers the certificate, its fees and the title rule in detail.