Veterinary Technician Salary in Louisiana

At the median, Louisiana sits $11,850 below the nation: $35,530 against $47,380, a 25% gap.

The hourly median tells the same story — $17.08 against $22.78, also 25% below.

The gap is not constant across the distribution.

It is smallest at the 10th percentile, $28,490 against $35,710, 20% below, and grows through the 25th percentile, $30,320 against $38,910, 22% below, to its widest point at the 75th percentile, $38,240 against $57,650, a 34% gap.

At the 90th percentile it narrows back to $47,690 against $63,180, 25% below — the same gap as the median.

A technician benchmarking a Louisiana offer against national upper-percentile figures would see the biggest shortfall not at the very top but in the upper-middle of the range.

Half of Louisiana's technicians counted earned between $30,320 and $38,240 — a band $7,920 wide.

Nationally the same band runs from $38,910 to $57,650, $18,740 wide.

From the 10th percentile ($28,490) to the 90th ($47,690), Louisiana spans $19,200, against $27,470 nationally.

The median also sits much closer to the 75th percentile than to the 25th: $2,710 below the one and $5,210 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 Louisiana's hourly wage only at the median: $17.08, against $22.78 nationally, a 25% gap — the same 25% gap as the annual median.

That makes it a reliable figure to hold an hourly posting against.

For the rest of the range, the annual percentiles are the only guide here, so before comparing a posted rate against them, ask the employer how many hours a week the role is scheduled for.

BLS counted 2,220 veterinary technologists and technicians employed in Louisiana, 21st among the 51 jurisdictions that publish a median — a different rank than the state's 51st-place median.

Employment is a headcount of people counted in the occupation during the survey period, not a count of vacancies, and it does not explain why the two ranks diverge.

The two figures describe different things: how many people work in the role, and where the middle of their pay distribution sits.

Louisiana registers technicians through the Louisiana Board of Veterinary Medicine as Registered Veterinary Technicians, defined under R.S. 37:1542(4) and issued a certificate of approval by the Board.

The statute sets two education routes under R.S. 37:1543(3): graduation from an AVMA-accredited program, or a board-approved program paired with two years' supervised practice experience.

Every applicant must also pass two exams — the VTNE and a Louisiana state board exam — per the Board's applying-for-licensure page.

Keeping the credential current takes 10 continuing-education hours each fiscal year, at most 5 of them online, with proof due by September 30; a $20 late fee and additional fines may apply for non-compliance, and the certificate expires on September 30 for an RVT who does not timely comply.

None of this changes what the wage figures above measure: OEWS does not separate credentialed technicians from uncredentialed ones, so this page cannot show a pay difference between them.