Veterinary Technician Salary in New Hampshire

At the median, New Hampshire technicians earned $48,780 against the national $47,380 — $1,400, or 3%, higher.

The hourly median tells the same story: $23.45 against $22.78, also 3% higher.

The clearest gap is lower down: the New Hampshire 25th percentile, $45,550, is 17% above the national 25th percentile, $38,910, and the 10th percentile is 5% higher at $37,450 against $35,710.

That gap narrows moving up the distribution — the 75th percentile is only 2% above the national 75th — and reverses at the very top: the New Hampshire 90th percentile, $60,840, is 4% below the national 90th, $63,180.

A technician benchmarking a New Hampshire offer against national top-end figures would overstate what the state's own distribution shows.

Half of the New Hampshire technicians counted earned between $45,550 and $59,040 — a band $13,490 wide.

Nationally the same band runs from $38,910 to $57,650, which is $18,740 wide, so the New Hampshire band is narrower even though it sits higher.

From the 10th percentile ($37,450) to the 90th ($60,840), New Hampshire spans $23,390, against $27,470 nationally — again narrower.

The median sits closer to the 25th percentile than to the 75th: $3,230 above the one and $10,260 below the other, meaning more of the distribution's spread lies above the median than below it.

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 New Hampshire's hourly wage only at the median: $23.45, against $22.78 nationally, a 3% 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 rate with them, ask the employer how many hours a week the role is scheduled for.

New Hampshire issues no state veterinary technician credential: RSA 332-B, the state's entire veterinary practice act, never mentions a technician across its twenty sections, and the Board of Veterinary Medicine's Vet 800 rules govern task delegation, not a license.

The CVT on a New Hampshire job ad is the private Certified Veterinary Technician designation of the New Hampshire Veterinary Technician Association (NHVTA), which takes graduation from an AVMA-accredited program and a passing VTNE score.

A non-graduate alternative pathway expired on May 1, 2026, subject to a Board standing order that let candidates signed up by June 15, 2026 test through July 15, 2026; the NHVTA said it would accept those applications until October 15, 2026, but not with a passing score dated after July 15.

The CVT confers no legal standing, and the data carries no split between credentialed and uncredentialed technicians, so this page cannot show a pay difference between them.