Veterinary Technician Salary in New Jersey

New Jersey's median annual wage of $49,050 sits $1,670, or 4%, above the national median of $47,380.

The hourly median of $23.58 shows the same 4% gap against the national $22.78.

Every percentile in the New Jersey distribution sits above its national counterpart, but not by a steady margin: the 10th percentile, $37,870, is 6% above the national $35,710, and the 25th, $45,160, is 16% above the national $38,910.

The 75th percentile narrows the gap to its smallest point — $58,600 against a national $57,650, only 2% higher — before the 90th percentile opens the widest gap of all: New Jersey's $75,310 is 19% above the national $63,180.

A technician benchmarking only against the national median would understate how far New Jersey's ceiling pulls ahead of it.

Half of the New Jersey technicians counted earned between $45,160 and $58,600 — a band $13,440 wide.

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

From the 10th percentile ($37,870) to the 90th ($75,310), New Jersey spans $37,440, wider than the national span of $27,470.

The median sits close to the 25th percentile, only $3,890 above it, but $9,550 below the 75th percentile — closer to the floor of the middle band than to its ceiling.

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

The dataset behind this page carries New Jersey's hourly wage only at the median: $23.58, against $22.78 nationally, a 4% difference that matches the gap in the annual median.

That makes the hourly median the figure to hold a posted hourly rate against — the percentile spread above and below it is published only as an annual figure here.

Before comparing an hourly posting with the annual percentiles on this page, ask the employer how many hours a week the role is actually scheduled for.

BLS estimates that 2,910 veterinary technologists and technicians were employed in New Jersey, 12th among the 51 jurisdictions that publish a median for the occupation — a headcount toward the higher end of that list.

That is a count 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 quickly a posting gets filled.

This rank moves independently of the wage percentiles above — New Jersey's employment rank of 12th and its median rank of 15th say nothing about each other.

New Jersey issues no veterinary technician credential: the state Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners licenses veterinarians only, and the practice act's only mention of technicians is an exemption for a properly trained technician working under a licensed veterinarian's supervision.

The CVT on New Jersey job ads is a private membership designation from NJVTA, earned either with a diploma from an AVMA-accredited Veterinary Technology Program and a passing VTNE score sent to the association, or through NJVTA's reciprocity route for a technician already credentialed in another state, and kept current with 20 hours of continuing education every two years, subject to random audits.

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