Veterinary Technician Salary in Michigan

At the median, Michigan sits $2,330 above the nation: $49,710 against $47,380, or 5%.

The hourly median of $23.90 is also 5% above the national $22.78, the same gap as the annual figure.

The state's advantage is not even across the distribution.

The 10th percentile is 5% above the national 10th and the 25th percentile is 16% above the national 25th — the widest gap on this page.

By the 75th percentile the lead narrows to 2%, and at the 90th percentile Michigan and the nation are effectively even.

A technician benchmarking against national percentiles at the top of the range would find Michigan barely different from the rest of the country, even though the state clearly outperforms lower in the range.

Half of the Michigan technicians counted earned between $45,180 and $58,980 — a band $13,800 wide.

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

From the 10th percentile ($37,410) to the 90th ($63,020), Michigan spans $25,610, against $27,470 nationally.

Inside that band, the median sits closer to the 25th percentile than to the 75th: $4,530 above the one and $9,270 below the other.

That is the mirror of the pattern in the percentile comparison — most of Michigan's room above the national figures sits in the lower half of the range, not the upper half.

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

BLS estimates 2,550 veterinary technologists and technicians employed in Michigan, ranking 16th among the 51 jurisdictions that publish a median.

That is a headcount of people in jobs during the survey period, not a count of open positions, so it says nothing about how quickly a Michigan clinic can fill a technician role.

The dataset also carries no breakdown by employer type or work arrangement, so the employment estimate cannot be read as evidence about any particular kind of workplace in the state.

Michigan licenses veterinary technicians through the Michigan Board of Veterinary Medicine (LARA, Bureau of Professional Licensing): a state Veterinary Technician license applied for on the MiPLUS portal and commonly abbreviated LVT, though the state's own guide always writes the title out.

The route runs through an AVMA CVTEA-accredited program, then the Veterinary Technician National Examination, applied for through AAVSB, which certifies passing scores directly to LARA; no state jurisprudence exam appears in the sources read.

Renewal asks for 15 hours of board-approved continuing education per 3-year cycle — at least 10 scientific in nature and at least 5 in-person or through live, synchronous contact — on a license valid for 3 years.

Whether holding the license is legally required to do the work, and whether LVT is itself a protected title, are open questions this page cannot resolve; the full Michigan requirements page covers what the credential file does and does not document.