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Pay ranged from $37,730 a year at laboratories to $48,020 a year for the federal government. California, Texas, Florida, New York and Pennsylvania employ the most vet techs, with California employing the most at 8,560 techs, as of 2011 according to the BLS survey. Vet Techs in California earn the highest salaries in this group, with an annual mean wage of $35,500. Vet techs in Florida and Texas make the least among the group of high-employment states, at $29,250 and $28,830 a year, respectively.
An average hourly wage for a newly certified veterinary technician in the United States ranges from between $10.24 â $18.57 per hour which gradually increases from $13.90 â $26.72 overtime. An average annual salary bonus of around $988 will be included and the total annual salary ranges from between $22,452 â $40,262.