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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.
According to the BLS, vet techs earned an average hourly wage of $15.18 as of May 2011, which represents an annual salary of $31,570. The lowest 10 percent of earners reported hourly wages of $10.04 or less, and 25 percent of all vet techs earned $12.02 or less an hour. Half of all veterinary technicians and technologists earned $14.49 or more per hour, and the highest-paid 10 percent reported hourly earnings of $21.51 or more.