Veterinary Technician Salary in Nevada

The gap over the national figures is not steady across the range, and it is not biggest at the top.

It is biggest at the 25th percentile: $47,460 in Nevada against $38,910 nationally, a 22% lead.

At the median the lead narrows to 6% ($50,250 against $47,380, also matching the 6% gap in the hourly median, $24.16 against $22.78).

It widens again at the 75th percentile, $63,600 against $57,650, a 10% lead, then narrows further at the 90th, $65,420 against $63,180, a 4% lead — smaller than the lead at the median.

The only point where Nevada trails the nation is the 10th percentile, $34,700 against $35,710, 3% below.

A technician benchmarking a Nevada offer against national figures should not expect the lead to grow the higher up the range they look; it peaks at the 25th percentile and is already smaller by the median.

Half of the Nevada technicians counted earned between $47,460 and $63,600 — a band $16,140 wide, somewhat narrower than the national band of $38,910 to $57,650, which runs $18,740 wide.

The wider story is at the bottom: from the 10th percentile ($34,700) to the 25th ($47,460), Nevada climbs $12,760, against a national climb of just $3,200 over the same two points.

From the 10th to the 90th percentile, Nevada spans $30,720, versus $27,470 nationally.

The median also sits closer to the 25th percentile than to the 75th — $2,790 above the one and $13,350 below the other.

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

The data set behind this page carries Nevada's hourly wage only at the median: $24.16, against $22.78 nationally, a 6% gap that matches the gap in the annual median.

That makes it the 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 hourly rate with them, ask the employer how many hours a week the role is scheduled for.

BLS estimates 1,120 veterinary technologists and technicians employed in Nevada, tied for 31st among the 51 jurisdictions that publish a median — below the middle of that list, even though Nevada's pay figures mostly run ahead of the national ones.

That is a headcount of people counted in the job 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 a role is to fill.

It says nothing about how that count breaks down by setting or credential, since the dataset carries no rows below the state level.

Nevada licenses veterinary technicians through the Nevada State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners, and the license is mandatory to do the work.

Applicants qualify through graduation from an AVMA-accredited program, or a Bachelor of Science in an animal-science field plus a supervisor-signed skills list and 4,000 hours of supervised clinical experience completed under a Veterinary Technician in Training registration.

Two exams are required: the Veterinary Technician National Examination plus the state examination administered by the Board (NRS 638.123), which the application calls the Nevada State Jurisprudence Examination.

Renewal runs on 20 hours of Board-approved continuing education in the 24 months before each renewal.

The full requirements page on this site sets out the details and every citation behind them.