Vet assistant pay in Hawaii

Vet assistants in Hawaii: $20 to $23 an hour in job ads

From 5 job ads at 3 employers, updated Nov 9, 2026

$20 an hour, median in job ads

10th to 90th percentile, 5 ads at 3 employersBLS median $21.19 an hour, May 2025 (a separate source)

Updated Nov 9, 2026. Each employer counts once, however many ads it posts. Hourly ads only, never converted.

Where Hawaii sits

Each ball is one state's median vet assistant pay in job ads. Hawaii pays more than 24 of the 42 states with enough ads.

Hawaii $20

What the jobs offer

Mentorship9% (2 of 22 ads)

CE allowance5% (1 of 22 ads)

Counted only where the ad's own words say it, out of all 22 open vet assistant ads on Nov 9, 2026, including ads that state no pay. The pay figures above use only ads that state hourly or yearly pay. Each ball is 10%.

Hiring now in Hawaii

Wildlife Attendant - Wildlife - Full Time at Hyatt Corporation, Lahaina$23 to $25 an hour
Veterinary Assistant at Petco, Hawaii Kai$15 to $24 an hour
Animal Health Assistant NF-03 at U.S. Army Medical Command, Kaneohe$49,190 a year

Questions

How much do vet assistants make in Hawaii?

Job ads in Hawaii offer vet assistants $20 to $23 an hour, median $20, from 5 ads at 3 employers (Nov 9, 2026). The BLS median for vet assistants in Hawaii was $21.19 an hour in May 2025.

How does Hawaii compare with the US?

The median vet assistant job ad in Hawaii offers $20 an hour (5 ads), the same as the US median of $20 (3,115 ads), as of Nov 9, 2026.

What benefits do vet assistant jobs in Hawaii offer?

Of 22 vet assistant ads in Hawaii, 1 mention a CE allowance, 2 mention mentorship, as of Nov 9, 2026. Only what the ad itself says is counted.

Sources

Job ads, Nov 9, 2026. 5 open vet assistant ads in Hawaii that state hourly pay, at 3 employers. An ad that states pay with no hour or year is left out. Read from employers' own job feeds and careers pages.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, May 2025. Median pay for vet assistants in Hawaii, $21.19 an hour, from a survey of employers. A separate source from the job ads, shown beside them and never mixed in.
Benefits, Nov 9, 2026. Counted across all 22 open ads, whether or not they state pay.

Each job-ad figure is kept with the ad's own sentence. See also how often vets leave their practice.