Veterinary Technician Salary in Maryland

Maryland's advantage over the national figures does not grow steadily as you move up the range.

At the 10th percentile, $38,750 is 9% above the national $35,710, and the 25th percentile, $44,520, is 14% above the national $38,910 — the widest gap below the median.

That gap all but disappears at the median: Maryland's $47,350 sits 0% below the national $47,380, essentially the same figure.

It stays thin at the 75th percentile, where $60,460 is only 5% above the national $57,650, before widening sharply again at the 90th percentile, where $74,460 is 18% above the national $63,180 — the largest gap anywhere in the range.

The hourly median, $22.77, tracks the annual median closely at 0% against the national $22.78.

A technician benchmarking against the national median alone would miss both of Maryland's premiums: the one below the median and the larger one at the very top.

Half of the Maryland technicians counted earned between $44,520 and $60,460, a band $15,940 wide — narrower than the national band of $18,740 (from $38,910 to $57,650).

The full range tells a different story: from the 10th percentile ($38,750) to the 90th ($74,460), Maryland spans $35,710, wider than the national span of $27,470.

The median also sits much closer to the 25th percentile than to the 75th: only $2,830 above the one, but $13,110 below the other.

That combination — a tight interquartile band paired with a long stretch above the 75th percentile — means the state's highest earners pull the top of the range up well beyond where the middle half sits.

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

BLS estimates 2,540 veterinary technologists and technicians employed in Maryland, 17th among the 51 jurisdictions that publish a median — a larger workforce, in relative standing, than the state's 23rd-place median rank might suggest.

Employment is a headcount of people in jobs during the survey period, not a count of open positions, so it describes the size of the occupation in the state rather than how easy or hard those jobs are to fill.

The employment estimate says nothing about the shape of the pay distribution described above; the two figures answer different questions.

Maryland's State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners registers Registered Veterinary Technicians (RVTs), but registration is not required to do the work — the statute instead requires a technician to be employed by a veterinary practitioner.

What the law protects is the title: advertising as a Board registered veterinary technician without registering is a prohibited act.

Applicants qualify through an AVMA-approved program or a 10,000-hour alternate route, pass the VTNE plus a State Board Examination, and renew every three years.

The full requirements page on this site sets out both routes and the renewal process in detail.

OEWS does not split its wage data between registered and unregistered technicians, so this page cannot show a pay difference between the two.